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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.…

Motes and Beams

Butch — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 13:59:48 +0000

Jesus uses the image of a beam hanging out of one brother's eye while trying to remove a speck in another's eye as a humorous impossibility. The Master Teacher sure could get an audience's attention!

Eight Reasons Not to Skip Bible Study

Butch — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 15:05:00 +0000

It is a rewarding privilege
If we don’t, we cast our vote to stop scheduling it.
Our influence and contributions to the Lord’s work is dependent on attending.
It helps lead the lost to Christ.
Jesus would attend if He were here.
It’s not optional.
It stabilizes our homes.
It part of the example we set.

Your Calling is Calling!

Butch — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 23:00:16 +0000

I just noticed on the Monster.com job search site that their catch phrase is “Your calling is calling.” It is somewhat of a hobby of mine to find the Biblical principal that a successful enterprise based their business model on (whether they know it or not). As Christians we can leverage our faith in God’s plan by building a life around the examples He has given us in His word.

Take for example Esther, and the opportunity she seized to save her people from destruction by performing a risky action. Her cousin Mordecai had asked her to plead with the…

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…

Does God Care About the Little Things I Do?

Michael — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 11:00:18 +0000

Many of us have heard the cliché, “Little things mean a lot,” but do we really believe that? Do we truly realize how important little things that we do can be?

In Proverbs 30:24-28, King Solomon mentions four creatures (i.e. ant, coney, locust, and spider) that we view as being small and insignificant; yet, in God’s sight, they are considered exceedingly wise. The Bible speaks of a town just a few miles south of Jerusalem known as “the house of bread” or Bethlehem that was among the smallest and most insignificant towns in Israel but from it was born the…

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:…