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A Good Habit

Charles — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 21:59:58 +0000

“Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.” (2 Timothy 2: 15 KJV)

Are you a daily Bible reader? How much time do you spend each day reading the Bible? An hour? Half hour? Five minutes? A minute? No time?

Woodrow Wilson once said, “A man has deprived himself of the best there is in the world who has deprived himself of a knowledge of the Bible.” A man who does not read God’s Word has no advantage over the man who cannot read.…

THE RIGHT SONG; THE WRONG SIDE

Charles — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 00:10:32 +0000

Having encamped on the shore of the Red Sea following their deliverance from Egypt and looking back seeing Pharaoh and his army “marching after them,” the Israelites “were terrified and cried out to the Lord.” (Exodus 14:10) They submitted this question to Moses, ”What have you done to us by bringing us out of Egypt?” (verse 11) “Didn’t we say to you in Egypt, ‘Leave us alone; let us serve the Egyptians?’ It would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the desert,” they said. (verse 12)

Have they so soon forgotten God’s power manifested in the plagues, including the fact…

DUTY, HONOR, GOD

Charles — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 11:00:56 +0000

“So you also, when you have done everything you were told to do, should say, ‘we are unworthy servants; we have only done our duty.’” (Luke 17: 10)

“Duty,” said Robert E. Lee, “is the most precious word in the English language.” Douglas MacArthur, another great military leader, summed up three great motivations for the soldier in his stirring speech, “Duty, Honor, Country.” Solomon gave this summation of life in Ecclesiastes 12: 13, “…Fear God and keep His commandments, for this is the whole duty of man.” We might well rephrase the title of MacArthur’s speech,
“Duty, Honor,…

Unshakable

Charles — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 13:56:34 +0000

Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven. And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain. Hebrews 12: 26-27, Haggai 2:6

One day when the “earth and the heavens will be shaken,” only “what cannot be shaken will remain.” Here the “Hebrews” writer is speaking of the “seen” and the “unseen,” the “visible” and the “invisible,” the “temporary” and the “eternal.”

The…

Grumbling

Charles — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 14:45:12 +0000

We are often unhappy becauswe we choose to be. Let's think about our outlook for a bit.

AN UNALTERABLE LAW

Charles — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 18:48:59 +0000

Can a man scoop fire into his lap without his clothes being burned? Can a man walk on hot coals without his feet being scorched? (Proverbs 6: 27-28)

Can a man sow one thing and reap another? Paul put the answer to that question in language that cannot be misunderstood. He wrote, “Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. The one who sows to please his sinful nature, from that nature will reap destruction; the one who sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.” (Galatians 6:…

Do It Now

Charles — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 13:24:34 +0000

Good intentions and avoiding delay

FRIEND

Charles — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 19:31:49 +0000

“The friends here send their greetings. Greet the friends there by name.” (3 John 14) FRIEND! What a wonderful and meaningful word!

When the great composer, Beethoven, was asked what he considered the greatest accomplishment of his life, he replied, “I found and kept a true friend for life.”

“The glory of friendship,” wrote Waldo Emerson, “is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him…

WHAT, LORD?

Butch — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:05:48 +0000

John Allen Chalk once wrote, “Man is a questioning creature. He probes, observes, inquires and reacts to everything around him. He is by nature the most inquisitive of all God’s creatures. If the Bible has anything to say to us, it is that man’s vital quests have never changed. That’s just part of the reason why the Bible continues to speak to those who ‘ask…seek…and knock,’ to use Jesus’ words in Matthew 7:7, 8’”

Men have admired for centuries the attitude of the apostle Paul (Saul) on the road to Damascus when he submissively inquired, “Lord, what…

YOUR SHADOW

Charles — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 12:43:15 +0000

“You are the salt of the earth…..You are the light of the world……Let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven…..”(Matt. 5:13, 14, 16)

These metaphors, along with the statement, “A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid,” emphasize the fact of influence. Influence is something that all possess. Just as an anvil gives off sparks, every one of us exerts influence on those around us. John Donne, the English poet, said, “No man is an island.” Paul put it this…