January 2025
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Charles Lawson | 01/19/2025 (SM) | Exodus 34:15 | Moses as an Intercessor and Paul as an Intercessor Are Strong Examples of What God Likes and Who He Is. If You Don't Ever Come to Know God, Then You're Not Going to Trust Him; You'll Never Follow Him; and You Won't Talk to Him. If You Don't Believe God's Word, You're Calling Him a Liar. |
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Lucas Hickman | 01/19/2025 (SN) | Genesis 50:24-26 | Joseph Gave Orders That His Bones Be Carried Back to the Promised Land Because He Was Fully Persuaded That the Promise Was Greater Than Personal Priorities or Convenience. God Personally Lead His People Out From Pharaoh; in This Church Age, We Are Lead by the Holy Spirit. Cautions About the Sanctity of the Spirit: the Truth, Summission, and the Sensitivity of the Holy Spirit. And, Stern Warning Against People Who Nuture the Root of Bitterness--Grieving the Holy Spirit. |
NO SERVICES DUE TO SNOW |
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Charles Lawson | 01/05/2025 (SM) | Luke 23:39- 43 | How Could an Ignorant Sinner Be Assured of Life Eternal Within All of Five Minutes' Communication? What Gospel Was Heard, What Commitments Made? O, But the Dying Wretch Trusted Jesus: He Who Hath the Son Hath Life. |
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Charles Lawson | 12/22/2024 (SM) | John 1:14 | Babylon Was the Enemy and the Antithesis of Jerusalem (Which Itself Has Two Expressions: the Heavenly and the Earthly). When the People of Jerusalem Were Drug Off to Babylon, They Were Broken and Could Find No Solace Save in the Scriptures That Gave Reassurance of God's Unfailing Presence and Grace and Commitment That He Will Dwell with His People Eternally. |
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12/22/2024 (SN) | Church wide play, "The Nazareth News" | ||
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Charles Lawson | 12/15/2024 (SM) | Luke 1:5-7 | Seven Barren Women are Named in Scripture To Whom God Gave a Child. Then There Was Mary, a Virgin, Who Was Also Blessed By a Miraculous Birth. Three Direct References to the Incarnation (Romans 8:3, Hebrews 2:14, and Philippians 2:6) Show That Christ Was Born in the Likeness of Sinful Flesh, That Death is Connected With the Flesh, and that Jesus Christ is Equal to God and His Servanthood Led Him to the Cross to Fulfill the Prophecy in Isaiah. When Adam Died, He Knew He Had Sinned, but When Christ Died He Became Sin. |
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Perry Demopoulos | 12/15/2024 (SN) | John 18 | Long-Time Missionary and Church Planter to Ukraine Tells How He Got Started and What He's Seen of the Real-Bible Places of Gog and Magog. |
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Barry McDonald | 12/08/2024 (SM) | Matthew 2:1-2 | The Wise Men Came From the East Searching for the Baby Born King of the Jews Because of the Prophecy of Balaam (Numbers 24:17)--Not Because of the Star. Even More True Now--the Spirit of Christmas Is Not in Shiny Lights and Decorations But in the Fulfillment of the Word of God. |
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Lucas Hickman | 12/08/2024 (SN) | Exodus 3:1-8 | As the Bush That Burned and God Spoke Through It Was No Doubt a Special Place to Moses Because of That Occasion; Such Places Are Secret and Special, Separated and Supernatural: and Sanctified. Obedience Is Necessary to Let God Get Into It, and When You Do Let Him In: Your Routine Will Change; Normal Becomes Unnormal; You'll Acquire a Desire for God to Be in Everything, Every Day. Also, Craving to Avoid a Samson-Situation When He Wist Not That His Strength from God Had Left Him. |
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Charles Lawson | 12/01/2024 (SM) | Matthew 15:24 | Although the Woman from Canaan Might Have Been Put off By Jesus' Response to Her Plea for Help, She Humbled Herself Even More and Touched the Lord by Her Faith. Opening Yourself Ever Wider to Our Lord God Permits His Blessings of Instruction and Healing and Joy to Enter Into Your Heart. |
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Charles Lawson | 12/01/2024 (SN) | Psalm 19:1-5 | Before Any Scripture Was Penned by Moses or the Prophets Spake for God to His People, the Heavens Declared the Glory of God (and the Firmament Was a Witness, Too, of His Handiwork). After Jesus Was Come [Lived, Died, Rose Again], He Was the Satisfaction of the Law and of Sin--for ALL Mankind, Not Just the Saved. And Now, Jesus Is Our Passover, and We Eat and Drink the Lord's Supper in Remembrance of Him and in Anticipation of His Coming Again. |
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Barry McDonald | 11/24/2024 (SM) | Jeremiah 13:1-11 | God Gives Jeremiah a Physical Illustration of His Commitment to Israel in the Form of a Linen Girdle Which Becomes Dirty and "Unprofitable." Nevertheless! God Wants Us Back, and He Will Come to Us Because We Cannot Find Our Way Back to Him. The Preacher Gives Another Illustration of the Very Same Thing. |
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Roger Lee | 11/24/2024 (SN) | Acts 27:20 | Paul Purposed in Himself to Go to Jerusalem. In That, He Was Going Ahead of God's Timetable. But After an Uproar Was Incited and Paul Had to be Rescued by a Centurion, Then the Lord Came and Stood by Him and Gave Him the Green Light. Then the Storm Came and Pounded and Wreaked Havoc--They Despaired! But God Revealed to Paul That Was No Life Would Be Lost of Who All Stayed with the Ship and Rode Out the Storm. |
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Charles Lawson | 11/17/2024 (SM) | Ephesians 1:3-6 | It is Clearly Declared That the Lord Has: Blessed Us, Chosen Us, Predestined Us, and Made Us Accepted in the Beloved. We Have Many Blessings From God Such As: Being Born-Again, Security (Holy Ghost Has Sealed Us), Access to Come to God in Prayer, Discipline By the Lord, Having the Joy of the Lord, and Rejoicing For Our Name is Written in Heaven. When We Have a Dead and Empty Christian Life We Must Get Back on the Path to the Joy of the Lord. |
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Sam Greene | 11/17/2024 (SN) | II Chronicles 20:12, 15-17 | As King Jehoshaphat Said: We've Got No Might on Our Own; There Is a Great Company Coming Against Us (Much Pressure to Conform); Don't Know What to Do, But We've Got Our Eyes upon Our God (We're in Fellowship). And God Answers: "The Battle Is Not Yours, But God's" -- But Nevertheless, They Had to Have Faith and Go Down and Face Their Enemies. |
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Charles Lawson | 11/10/2024 (SM) | Hebrews 11:1 | Faith is Big With the Lord. It is Important To Have Faith/Trust in His Word and In His Character. Faith Brings Blessings, Opens Doors, and Wins the Battle. Faith Sees the Invisible. Faith Can See You Through Anything (Recollecting Preacher's Back porch Experience [2000]). |
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Roger Lee | 11/10/2024 (SN) | Exodus 14:9-11 | It Was Welcome Answers to Hebrew Children's Cries Before the Lord That God Would Bring His People Out of Egypt. But When They Looked Back and Saw Pharaoh's Army Rushing Them Against the Boundary the Red Sea--They Were Sore Afraid, Shaking, and Wailed to Moses of Their Imminent Demise! .... O, But God Told Moses to Command Them, "Stand Still and See the Salvation of the Lord." |
| Charles Lawson | 11/03/2024 (SM) | Ezekiel 28:14-16 | Satan is Known as a Cherub; He is Among the Beasts; and He is an Unseen Being (Creatures Unseen By Man, i.e. Behemoth and Leviathan). Satan is Constantly Seeking, Looking For a Weakness and Opportunity to Get Between Us and God. We Must Exalt the Real Lord Jesus Christ and Preach the Crucified Savior, the Blood, the Gospel, and the Truth. | |
| Lucas Hickman | 11/03/2024 (SN) | Revelation 22:7, 12, 20 | Three Times in the One Chapter, Our Lord Jesus Says, "I Come Quickly"; and in Conclusion, John's Response Was: "Amen. Even So, Come, Lord Jesus." How Eager Are You to Be Taken Away to Forever with Our Saviour? How Ready John Must Have Been.... And How We Can Get Prepared, as John Was. How We Might Buddy-up, Too, to Encourage One Another. |
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Charles Lawson | 10/27/2024 (SM) | Isaiah 61:1-2 | To Fulfill the Prophecy of Isaiah 61, Christ Jesus Revealed His Identity (Who He Is) and Received Anointing for the Ministry (Complete Filling of the Holy Spirit). |
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Barry McDonald | 10/27/2024 (SN) | Pastors = Shepherds; and Bishops (also = Pastors) Are Responsible Before God for the Spiritual Matters of Their Flock: They Labor in the Word and Doctrine. Reciprocally, They (as the Rulers Over) Are to Be Obeyed, to Be Honored, and to Be Compensated. ...Brother Barry's First-Hand Experience in the Arduousness of Pastoring--a Calling That Sorely Wants Mercy. | |
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Charles Lawson | 10/20/2024 (SM) | Matthew 27:26-36 | The Scripture Provides a Historical Account of the Crucifixion of Christ. The Cross Represents Where Jesus Christ Died For Our Sins 2000 Years Ago, and it is the Only Place Where God and Man Meet. There is No Gospel of Christ Without the Death, Burial, and Resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. Christ Had to Lay His Life Down and Once He Did -- It Was Finished. All We Have to Do is Meet Jesus There. |
| Charles Lawson | 10/20/2024 (SN) | I Timothy 6:14-16 | Delving into Scriptures That Speak of: the Times, the Life, the Light of God. | |
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Cody Shew | 10/13/2024 (SM) | Romans 12:21 | Spiritual or Physical Battle, the Evil You Are Fighting Will Attempt to Overcome You. You Must First Tackle the Evil Inside of You Before You Attack the Evil Outwardly. So, in Order to Be a Force For Good, We Must Be a Force Of Good; and to That End We Must: (1) Be Saved, (2) Be Submissive to the Will of God, (3) Have a Renewed Mind in Christ, (4) Know Your Place in the Body of Christ, (5) Have Good Character. |
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Cody Shew | 10/13/2024 (SN) | Exodus 17:14-16 | God Instructs Moses to Write Down For a Memorial in a Book and Rehearse it in the Ears of Joshua After the Israelites Defeats Amalek; But, Why? Because There is Power in God's People Sharing the Supernatural. Amalek Serves as a Type of the Flesh and Our First Battle and Daily Battle is With the Flesh. When God Does the Miraculous in Our Life We Ought to Share it to Build the Faith of the Next Generation. |
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Charles Lawson | 10/06/2024 (SM) | Isaiah 61:1-3 Luke 4:16-19 | The Word of God is Alive and Speaks Personally to Every Listener. While on Earth, the Lord Jesus Christ Was Here to Minister. Now It Is the Holy Spirit That Ministers the Word to Everyone Individually. Collective Terms Include the New Age Gurus, the Very Religious, Sinners/Hypocrites, Solomon Syndrome, Divorced, Raised in Church/Rebuffed by Church. In Any Case and in Every Case, Turn Your Eyes, Heart, and Mind on the Lord Jesus Christ For He Is Salvation Personified, and He Will Bring You Through. |
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Tony Hopkins | 10/06/2024 (SN) | Isaiah 28:9-10 | (1) The Lord Starts Small: "Small Inputs Over Time Produce Lasting Results." |
September 2024 |
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Charles Lawson | 09/29/2024 (SM) | Deuteronomy 8:1 | People Can't Be Helped if They Won't Allow It, and Sometimes It's a Sense of Entitlement that Prevents Them from Accepting Help. To Be a Helper, One Must Be Patient. (God Is Infinitely Patient) To Be Helped, One Must Be Humble; Must Confront His Need. If in Sin, One Must, by the Grace of God, Repent and Turn from It. |
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Barry McDonald | 09/29/2024 (SN) | Genesis 22:1-8 | Man is What He Loves and What He Fears. Abraham Was Not Tempted of God To Sin; but, God Did Try Him When He Instructed Him To Sacrifice His Only Son, Isaac. Abraham Serves as a Type of God the Father and Isaac, a Type of the Son. God the Father Loves God the Son More Than Anything, Yet He Gave Him to Die For Our Sins [Because It Was Necessary]. If We Love Not the Son Then We Don't Know the Father; For We Must Go Through the Son to Get to the Father. |
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Charles Lawson | 09/22/2024 (SM) | II Peter 1:9 | God Breathed into Man the Breath of Life, Therefore the Soul of Man is the Breath of God. God Can Take Your Life, Broken or Not, and Put You on a Path that Takes You Higher and Higher. When the Holy Spirit Comes Upon You, it will Change Your Life Completely. |
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Charles Lawson | 09/15/2024 (SM) | Luke 16:19 | God Forewarns Us About Life After Death: The Rich Man in Hell Bids Lazarus in Abraham's Bosom to Give Him Drop of Water, but That is Impossible for the Great Gulf Dividing Them. Jesus Both Ascended into Heaven (by His Own Righteousness) and Descended into the Heart of the Earth. The Bottomless Pit is from Where All Manner of Demons and Evil Spirits Will Be Released Upon the Earth. You Don't Want to Go There. Be Careful for Your Soul. |
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Roger Lee | 09/15/2024 (SN) | Jeremiah 2:1-3 | From His Mother's Womb, God Set Jeremiah Apart and Ordained Him To Be a Prophet to the Nation of Israel: Jeremiah Preached Before, During, and After Babylonian Captivity. God Put His Word in Jeremiah's Mouth, but Israel Turned From it and Would Not Hear -- Going So Far as King Jehoiakim Cutting and Burning the Word of God. Even Today, If We Turn From the Word of God, Then God Must Send Judgement. |
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Dr. Roc Collins | 09/08/2024 (SM) | Romans 10:9 | Everything We Need is Available to Us. Salvation is Available [Available to Whosoever Shall Call Upon the Name of the Lord], Shamelessness is Available [Don't Allow Satan to Wear You Down With Shame], and the Sustaining Work of Christ is Available [All You Have to Do is Call on Jesus' Name.] |
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Dr. Roc Collins | 09/08/2024 (SN) | I Corinthians 6:9-11 | The Scripture Provides a Detailed List of Habitual Actions That Are Considered Unrighteous, and Unrighteousness Does Not Belong in the Kingdom of God. But "Such Were Some of [Us]"! Neither is All the Righteousness We Can Muster On Our Own Sufficient! Christ's Righteousness Must be Imparted Unto Us: For Christ Alone is Righteous. |
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Charles Lawson | 09/01/2024 (SM) | I Corinthians 1:17 | The Cross Reveals Sin, the Holiness of God, the Son and the Son's Heart, and the Giver (God the Father). The Cross is a Sterling Example of How God Can Turn a Curse into a Blessing. Whenever You Find Yourself Mad or at Odds with God, Go to Him Openly, Earnestly--for a Meeting of Minds with Him and a Restoration of Fellowship. |
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Lucas Hickman | 09/01/2024 (SN) | Psalm 119:1-12 | We Want to Revel in the Immediate Joy and Weightlessness of the New Birth, O, Yes! Then...We Tend to Take Back, Big and Little Chunks at a Time: Heed [or Not] the Word of God; Give Him [or Don't] Your Whole Heart; Be Teachable [Continually] of the Lord's Statues. |
August 2024 |
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| The Second Coming of David and the Giant of
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Charles Lawson | 08/25/2024 (SM) | Acts 2:29 | The Times of the Gentiles Is Coming to Fulfillment and Will End Abruptly, Completely When the Rock Smites It on Its Feet. So the Last Days Are Imminent With A Host of Other Signs Such as Seen in Noah's Time: Just Before the World Was Judged Then. |
| The Eyes of Man Compared to the Eyes of the Lord
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Barry McDonald | 08/25/2024 (SN) | I Samuel 16:1-7 | The World's Outlook of Us Is Limited to Our Flesh and the Eyes of Men Will Condemn Us. The Eyes of the Lord Look Past the Flesh and Searches the Heart Where He Knows What No One Else Can -- Such As Our Ways, Motives, Secrets, Burdens, and Sorrows. How Man Sees Versus How the Lord Sees in the Instances of Rahab and Ruth and Two Young Women at a Truck Stop. |
| The Birth of Death
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Charles Lawson | 08/18/2024 (SM) | John 1:1-14 | The Book of John Is Written That the Hearers Might Believe and, Believing, Come to Be Born to Eternal Life in Christ Jesus. "Flesh Does Not Beget Life; It Takes Spirit to Beget Life." All the Sin in the World Comes from People: Within the Heart of Every Man -- "...When Lust Hath Conceived, it Bringeth Forth Sin: and Sin, When It is Finished, Bringeth Forth Death." [James 1:15] |
| Bless Them That Bless Thee, Or...
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Charles Lawson | 08/18/2024 (SN) | Genesis 13:14 | A List of Historical Markers ["As America Has Done to Israel" by Chaplain John P McTernan] in Answer to the Question, Does God Really Still Work in the Lives of Men and in Nations? |
| A Book in the Midst of Books
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Charles Lawson | 08/11/2024 (SM) | Matthew 5:1 | We Live In a Time When People Would Create a Religion Composite of God-Country-and a Fifth of Liquor, and Some Would Anticipate "Singularity"-When Human and AI Is Merged To Defy Death. In Scripture, Following the Synoptic Gospels Which Preach the Kingdom of Heaven, the Gospel of John Centers on the New Birth, and for This Reason John Stands As a Succinct Presentation of the Gospel of the Grace of God. |
| Christian Rights
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Tony Hopkins | 08/11/2024 (SN) | Contrasting Different Churches In the New Testament and Where They Were In Their Walk: Paul Lays Out Guidelines For Christians That We Must Be (1) Right with God (2) Right with the Brethren and (3) Right with the World. What We Set Our Focus On Will Be the Path We Take -- the Devil Wants To Get Us Out of the Race. | |
| Previously Unheard Phenomena
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Charles Lawson | 08/04/2024 (SM) | Daniel 9:24 | The Seventy Weeks Prophesied in Daniel Tell of the Birth of Christ and of the Last Days. Besides Wars and Weather, Here's a Short List of Heretofore Unknown Inventions or Discoveries Including: AI, Genetic Manipulation, CERN, and Dark Matter. The Solution and Personal Solace for All of These Alarming Threats and Events Is Still--As It Ever Was--Salvation by Faith in Jesus Christ. |
| A Time Is Coming When Children Will Cry No More
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Barry McDonald | 08/04/2024 (SN) | Jeremiah 9:17-21 | Jeremiah Is Dealing With the Babylonian Captivity [Historically] and Looking Ahead to Jacob's Sorrow During the Last Half of the Seven Years of Tribulation [Prophetically]. Current Events Are Not Armageddon nor the Start of the Tribulation But They Are Precursor of Things to Come. Now, More Than Ever, We Must Stay Vigilant as the New Age Church Will Attempt to Disarm You Spiritually. |
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| Revelation of the Lord Jesus Christ
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Charles Lawson | 07/28/24 (SM) | Revelation 1:1-3 | The Word of God Fits In the Progress of Time and Time Has No Control Over God. The Book of Revelation Reveals to Us About the Lord Jesus Christ: He Lives, He's the Savior, He Rules, He Is the Judge, He Is the Almighty, He Is the Lamb of God, He Is the King of Kings and Lord of Lords, and He Is the Alpha and Omega. Here On Earth Is Where God Deals with the Issue of Sin and the Restoration of Mankind. |
| I Ain't Comin Down
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Casey Kerr | 07/28/24 (SN) | Nehemiah 6:1 | Christians Today Have Become Comfortable with Church and Are Complacent Because of the Convenience of What They Have Allowed Their Church to Be. Christians Need to Realize the Importance of Going to Church, the Importance of the Calling of Jesus Christ, the Importance of Family and the Younger Generation, and They Need to Have Confidence in the Finished Work at Calvary. |
| Satan Hates You
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Charles Lawson | 07/21/2024 (SM) | II Timothy 2:26 | Satan Uses Wiles (Accusations Against God, Accusations Against You, and Accusations Against Your Brothers and Sisters) to Sift People - He Wants to Tear You Down and Destroy You. We Alone Are No Match for Satan; It Is Only by the Blood of the Lamb That Satan Can Be Overcome. |
| Why This Is The Best Life
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Lucas Hickman | 07/21/2024 (SN) | Coming Off the Spiritual High of Camp Where Eight Teens Accepted Christ Jesus as Their Personal Saviour, These Young People [Well, All Young People] Need to Hear and to See from Parents and from Aged Men and from Aged Women of the Church: Sound Doctrine and True Worship and the Value of Faithfulness and of Consistency--All Reasons Why a Godly Life Is the Best Life. | |
| One More Time
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Heath Williams | 07/14/2024 | II Kings 2:1-6 | Before Elisha Succeeded Elijah, Elijah Revisited Several Places Significant to Him, and As Elisha Insisted Upon Going Along the Significance of Those Places Was Passed Along to Him. So In Our Church, Older Saints Should Live the Faith and Bring Along the Next Generation. |
| Serving on Credit
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Heath Williams | 07/14/2024 | Luke 5:1-11 | The Account of Jesus Meeting and Calling Simon Peter (and James and John); and Step by Step (Merciful Invitation, Mysterious Involvement, Miraculous Investment) the Lord Brought Him on Board. Insight and Encouragement to All of Us Who Would Serve Him. |
| Christ And...
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Charles Lawson | 07/07/2024 (SM) | Matthew 23:24-33 | Looking At Christ's Attitude Towards Religion, Politics, Demons, Angels, Scripture, Prophecy, His Father, and Sinners. The Lord Jesus Christ Came Not to Condemn but to Save -- He Is a Friend of Sinners. Be Wary of Teachings from Churches That Attack the Deity of Christ or Refer to Jesus as Being Born-Again. |
| The Only Way to Ever Know Him
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Barry McDonald | 07/07/2024 (SN) | Luke 24:13-35 | Jesus, Joining the Two on Their Way to Emmaus: Walked with Them, Spoke to Them, Preached to Them; Abode and Tarried... But Only When He Broke Bread in Their Home Were Their Eyes Opened and, Then, They Knew Him. |
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| What Was Abraham's Problem?
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Charles Lawson | 06/30/2024 (SM) | Genesis 20:1-4 | Abraham Tells a Half-Truth About Sarah Being His Sister, But What Is Not Told Is What Was Abraham's Problem That He Should Lie. God Blesses Through Abraham as He Obeyed By Faith, and We Must Be Dependent on the Lord to Live for Him. The Holy Ghost Intercedes for a Crying Soul and Only God Can Search the Heart to See and to Tell the Inducement for Our Sin. |
| Ingrained Beliefs
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Charles Lawson | 06/30/2024 (SN) | Hebrews 13:17 | The Bible Is the Word of God; the Godhead Is the Father, the Word--Express Image, and the Holy Spirit. All of Mankind Has Sinned; Man Brought Sin into the World. Hell Is Real--Fear Him Who Can Send You to Hell. Salvation Is a Person--the Person of the Lord Jesus Christ. There Is a Resurrection: a Resurrection of the Saved and a Resurrection of the Lost. And, Jesus Is Coming Again, as He Has Promised. |
| Anointed to Preach the Gospel to the Poor
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Charles Lawson | 06/23/2024 (SM) | Luke 4:14 | Anointed: Set Apart for God. Preach: Give Out the Word of God. The Poor: Broken by Life, Needful; Hurt, Don't Feel God Anymore; Stag net, in a Doldrum, Not Going Anywhere. |
| Where Sin Abounds, Grace Does Much More Abound
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Tony Hopkins | 06/23/2024 (SN) | II Samuel 10:18-19 II Samuel 11:1-17 | David Withdraws From the Battle to Sin By Coveting Another Man's Wife and Then Tries to Cover Up His Sin. We Must Be Careful What We Set Before Our Eyes. Uriah Demonstrated More Character Than David When He Adamantly Refused to Rest When the Troops Were Engaged in War. In the End, David Receives Correction From God With Humility and Repentance. How We Receive God's Chastisement Is What Truly Matters. |
| Trusting God's Character
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Charles Lawson | 06/16/2024 (SM) | Job 42:1 | Every One of Job's Friends Offered an Answer That Was in No Wise True. When God Himself Finally Spoke, He Asserted His Sovereignty and Redirected the Absolute Answers to Be Only of His Prerogative. Whatever We Might Try to Do for God for Ourselves Is Futile. The Only Valid Course of Action in Existence Is to Seize Upon the Righteousness of the Lord Jesus Christ. |
| Cast At Jesus' Feet
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Lucas Hickman | 06/16/2024 (SN) | Luke 10:38-42 | Martha Got Caught Up While Serving in the Wrong Spirit But Mary Wanted to Be At Jesus' Feet. Throughout Scripture Getting to the Feet of Jesus Provides Answers and An Intimate Worship with God. At the Feet of Jesus You Can Get Protection, Provision, and Power. As Jesus Washed the Feet of His Disciples; We Must Humble Ourselves and [Spiritually] Wash Each Other's Feet. |
| The Solid Foundation
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Randy Bane | 06/09/2024 (SM) | Matthew 7:20-29 | Whatever We Build Upon Will Be Tested. Unrighteousness and Self Righteousness Are Sinking Sand Foundations. The Righteousness of Jesus Christ Is the Only Solid Foundation There Is. |
| God's Survival Guide (for These Last Day)
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Randy Bane | 06/09/2024 (SN) | Jude 1:20 | In the Book of Jude ("The Vestibule of the Revelation"), the Word of God First Blasts Wicked People Prominent inThose Last Days; and Then, Having Put Them in Their Proper Perspective, He Pulls the Beloved Believers Close to Him and Lists Critical Topics Essential to Enable the Faithful to Endure the Days and Also to Minister Life to Others. |
| Two Books Before You
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Barry McDonald | 06/02/2024 (SM) | Genesis 5:1-5 Matthew 1:1 | We Are All Born Into the Book of the First Man, Adam, Which Is Associated with: Sin, Death, and a Coffin. The Book of the Last Adam, the Lord Jesus Christ, Is Associated with Life Everlasting. Water Put Us In the First Book but Blood Takes Us Out and Once We Are Washed In the Blood Nothing Can Remove Us From the Lord's Book. Hope Begins the Day We Pass From Death to Life. |
| Getting What Paul Got
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Roger Lee | 06/02/2024 (SN) | Romans 1:14-16 | Paul Was A Servant of the Lord Jesus Christ, Called to be An Apostle and Separated Unto the Gospel of Christ. Injurious to the Church, Yet He Was Sent to Those Same People to Show the Light That He Has Seen on the Road to Damascus. Boldly He Declares That He Was Not Ashamed of the Gospel of Christ, but That It is the Power of God Unto Salvation. |
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| America's Only Hope Is In the Lord
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Greg Lentz | 05/26/2024 (SM) | II Chronicles 7:14 | A Call to Awake the House of God in America Because America Has Forgotten God. Therefore, There Is Disease in the Land; We Face Demise; and We Have Before Us a Decision - to Humble Ourselves, to Repent, and to Return to God. It Is the Responsibility of All of Us to Keep the Light on in the House of God--to His Gospel and to See Souls Saved. |
| The Touch That Stops Jesus
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Greg Lentz | 05/26/2024 (SN) | Mark 5:1-43 | Miracle Succeeds Upon Miracle in Three Incurable Cases in the Book of Mark When Jesus Encounters and Heals the Man of Gadarenas. Then, Jesus Is Touched by the Woman Diseased for Twelve Years While He's on His Way to Cure the Daughter of Jarius, a Ruler of the Synagogue. |
| The Adversary and Our Advocate
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Charles Lawson | 05/19/2024 (SM) |
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| Those of the Empty Seats
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Barry McDonald | 05/19/2024 (SN) |
I Samuel 20:18-24 | When Seats Go Empty, Folks Are Missed--by Those Who Knew Them and Were Connected, Inner-man to Inner-man. "How Pleasant It Is for Brethren to Dwell Together in Unity!" |
| Another Marvel of Motherhood
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Charles Lawson | 05/12/2024 (SM) |
II Timothy 1:5 | Recognizing a Number of Mothers from Scripture Emphasizes the Impact a Mother Has on Her Children. Conversely, We Learn Now of Microchimerism--Where the Child Can Leave Behind DNA and Have a Long Term Effect on Their Mother. It Is Even as David Said, "I Will Praise Thee; for I Am Fearfully and Wonderfully Made...." |
| Your Biggest Problem
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Tony Hopkins | 05/12/2024 (SN) | Genesis 22:1-5 | If We Are Not in Fellowship With the Lord Then We Are Walking in Darkness. We Must Crucify Our Flesh Because It Does as It Pleases, and We Will Have to Face Accountability at the Judgement Seat of Christ. A Look at a Couple of Old Testament Kings: King Saul and King Uzziah. Both of These Men Are a Type of the Flesh and Had an Issue with Pride. |
| No Greater Security
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Charles Lawson | 05/05/2024 (SM) | I Corinthians 10:12 | Our Salvation Is Dependent Upon the Word of God, and God's Word Is an Extension of His Character. That's Why We Can Have Eternal Security. Meanwhile, God Gives Us Instruction, As Any Father Does; But If We Mess Up, He Gives Us Forgiveness for Christ's Sake. Yet, In His Model Prayer, He Says That If We Forgive Those Who Wrong Us - Then He Will Forgive Us of Our Wrongs to Him. Unforgiveness Toward Another Can Swell into Hatred (Display of the Old Man) and Must Be Handled on A Spiritual Level. |
| Minister the Spirit
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Charles Lawson | 05/05/2024 (SN) | II Corinthians 3:6 | Contrast The Letter of the Law Which Killeth (Is Rigid and at Times Unreasonable) With the Spirit Which Giveth Life (Is Sensitive and Receptive). Examples of This Are: When Jesus Christ Spoke to His Disciples of Eating His Flesh and Drinking His Blood and When Jesus and Some Disciples Were Censured By the Priest For Breaking the Sabbath Because They Gathered Themselves Grain to Eat. |
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| A Time Before Time
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Charles Lawson | 04/28/2024 (SM) | John 1:1-13 | Seeing From the Beginning How God Is the Ultimate Sacrifice in John. We Also See the Holiness of God and the Light of God. In the Light of God We See An Altar, We See An Laver, and We See A Table of Shewbread. God's Holiness Is Something We Cannot Bear and Being in the Presence of God Almighty Is A Privilege. When We Become A New Creature in Christ, It Gives Us Access to the Presence of God. Christ Is Our Veil, Our Intercessor; Christ Takes Us Straight to the Father. |
| A Broken Promise
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Roger Lee | 04/28/2024 (SN) | Judges 2:16 | The Older Generation Dies Out and the Younger Generation Coming Behind Transgresses the Covenant Their Fathers Had with God and Corrupts Themselves, Following Other Gods. Individuals, Too, Brake Promises To God, Such As Samson (the Last Judge) Did by Breaking the Nazarite Vow. On a Generational and Individual Level, We Risk the Same Faithlessness of Those. |
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Charles Lawson | 04/21/2024 (SM) | Matthew 3:1 | The Callings of Both John the Baptist and Elias the Prophet Are Compared, down to the Final Consequences of Their Targets' Choices. Other Examples of Wicked Offenders Suffering Protracted Bedevilment Including Saul of Tarsus and the Blessed Remedy Which Paul Proclaims. |
| Worship Is Through Faith
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Lucas Hickman | 04/21/2024 (SN) | John 4:23-24 | Examples of the Premise That True Worship Is Through Faith (NOT Through Feelings) Are Presented: Abraham with Isaac atop the Mountain; Job upon Learning All His Children Are Dead; and the Woman of Canaan Who Worshiped Jesus Before Christ Granted Healing of Her Daughter. Then, Why We Should Be (Like the Samaritan Woman) Willing to Worship Our Lord God--Eagerly and Openly. Bottom Line: God Is Worthy. |
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Charles Lawson | 04/14/2024 (SM) | 2 Corinthians 11:1-4 | Just Another Tinge of the Gnostic Taint on Jesus of Old, the Woke Jesus--Touted to the Masses--Is All About How You Feel or What's Going On with You. They Are Heedless of the Weight of Sin and Its Natural Power Over Us Which Jesus Has Checked and Paid For for Us. Rather, They Would Divert the Message of Jesus Totally into Moral and Social Issues: Appealing Strongly to Temporal, Soulish Things and Utterly Neglecting the Spiritual. The Eternal. Matters of the Utmost Importance. |
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Charles Lawson | 04/14/2024 (SN) | Matthew 5:1 | Writer of Half of the Books of the New Testament: the Apostle Paul Received of God and Developed for the Church's Edification Several New Dispensational Changes and Certain Significant Mysteries--Such As the Mystery of Godliness and the Mystery of Iniquity; the Mystery of the Church, of the Indwelling Christ, and of the Rapture. |
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Charles Lawson | 04/07/2024 (SM) | Genesis 2:7 | Great Men -- Adam, Abraham, Moses -- Could Only Go So Far, and They Only Show Us So Far. Adam Was Created King of the Kingdom of Heaven and of the Kingdom of God (the Earth), but When He Sinned, He Lost the Image of God. Abraham Was a Pilgrim, Never Finding That City. Moses Got to the Top of the Mountain of Nebo, but He Could Not Enter the Promise Land. In All Cases Christ Alone Completely Fulfills the Plan of God. |
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Barry McDonald | 04/07/2024 (SN) | Matthew 27:36 | Human Nature Feeds On Dark Things and When Given the Opportunity Our Dark Side Will Come Out. Deception Can Provoke Curiosity and While Curiosity Can Sometimes Be a Good Thing, (If We Seek Out the Matter and Search the Scriptures), Curiosity Seekers Are Usually Not Looking For the Truth. Sitting and Watching Doesn't Change a Person, But Being Called Out and Contacting the Blood and Cross Most Definitely Can. |
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Charles Lawson | 03/31/2024 (SM) | Matthew 1:18 | What If All We Had of Jesus Was: His Birth; His Life; His Trial and Rejection; His Curse; or His Death On the Cross. Where Would the Power Lie? If Any of These Were Truly the End of the Story, Then the Story Would Have Ended. Our Lord Jesus Christ Took the Curse of the Earth and Tasted Death for All Men As Our Sacrifice. When He Arose From the Dead; He Sealed His Sinless, Perfect Life and Triumphed Over Death. |
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Charles Lawson | 03/24/2024 (SM) | Genesis 4:7 | By One Man, Adam, Sin Entered the World. By One Man, Jesus Christ, Hope Came into the World. Sin Bringeth Forth Death, Sin is Deceitful, and Sin Entices. But Jesus Christ is the Friend of Sinners, and He Gives Us Hope and the Promise to a New Life in Him. |
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Andy Walden | 03/24/2024 (SN) | II Chronicles 6:34-42 II Chronicles 7:1-3 | The Hardest Thing For Us to Do Is to Humble Ourselves Before God. But We Must Get Humble Before We Pray to Him: Seek Out His Face and Turn From Our Wicked Ways. We've Lost the Power of God as the Evil in the World Becomes More and More Normal. [What Is in Your Temple?] |
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Charles Lawson | 03/17/2024 (SM) | Hebrews 1:1 | Written to the Hebrews, God's Chosen People and Guardians of His Word, to Expound Unto Them the Way of God Completed as Example after Example Demonstrates the Supremacy of the Person, the Performance, the Priesthood and the Promises of the Lord Jesus Christ Over the Law of Moses Which Was the Foreshadowing of Him. |
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Barry McDonald | 03/17/2024 (SN) | Hosea 11:1-9 Ezekiel 16:1-6 | Ephraim Joined Themselves to Idols and Were Bent Towards Backsliding; So God, Who Called Ephraim His First Born, Approaches as a Parent Does to a Child and Goes So Far as to Say, "I Will Love Them No More." Ezekiel Shows God Viewing Ephraim as He First Found Them: Cast Out and Dying in Their Own Blood He Had Compassion, and Just Like a Parent, He Said to Ephraim, "How Shall I Give Thee Up?" |
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Charles Lawson | 03/10/2024 (SM) | Genesis 3:1 | Sin Originated Way Before the Garden of Eden, and the Ways and Wiles of Satan Have Been Elaborated and Honed Through the Ages. Satan Will Be the Adversary to Mankind Until He Is Finally Cast into the Lake of Fire. Overrunning Death and Despair Appall and Confuse Even Believers at Times. To React with Anger Towards God Is Not Uncommon. But, In Whatever Setting We Find Other Distraught Individuals, Let Us Intercede and Minister to Them Even as the Lord Has Shown Grace to Us. |
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Charles Lawson | 03/10/2024 (SN) | Psalm 23:1-6 | Psalms 22-24 Talk About Christ as the Good, the Chief, and the Great Shepherd. The Good Shepherd Is Willing To Die For His Flock and Protect Them From the Enemy; the Chief Shepherd Restores Our Soul and Feeds His Bishops and Elders; and the Great Shepherd Brings Victory and Allows Us into the Presence of God Through Christ's Righteousness. God Looks Upon Our Heart, Which Is Why David Was Anointed As the King of Israel -- Because He Had the Heart of a Shepherd. |
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Dean McNeese | 03/03/2024 (SM) | Psalm 130:1-4 | Psalms 130-133 We See David's Anguish, Anxiety, Anointing, and Analogy. The Life Long Burden of David was that He Would Build the House of God and Return the Ark of the Covenant (Manifest Presence) to Its Rightful Place. |
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Dean McNeese | 03/03/2024 (SN) | Psalm 133:1-3 | Only God Knows What a Church Needs or What Each Believer Needs, and He Will Surely Give Enough--and in a Timely Manner. |
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Charles Lawson | 02/25/2024 (SM) | Matthew 12:31-32 | Understanding How the Preaching of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and the Working of the Holy Spirit Together Bring Conviction to the Heart of the Unbeliever. Then IF Knowingly, Willfully Rejected - There Is No Alternative to Receive Remission of Sin and There Is NO HOPE. |
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Roger Lee | 02/25/2024 (SN) | I Kings 22:1-8 | The Friendship of Jehoshaphat (King of Judah) and Ahab (King of Israel) Was Between Two Men Who Were Vastly Different As Jehoshaphat Sought After God's Face and Ahab Had A Wicked Heart. We Must Never Make An Allegiance With Evil and Must Be Separate From the World. |
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Charles Lawson | 02/18/2024 (SM) |
Hebrews 11:6 | The People Listed in This Chapter of Hebrews Are Flawed, But God Focuses Exclusively on Their Faith. All of Us Are Flawed, Too; But by the Mercy and Grace of Our Lord, We Have His Promise That Christ Is Our Advocate and That He Will Instruct Us in His Truth. |
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Lucas Hickman | 02/18/2024 (SN) | Matthew 23:24-26 | Four Examples from Scripture of People Who Were Desperate To Get To Jesus; Zacheus, Blind Bartimaeus, Woman with the Issue of Blood, and the Man with the Palsy. Exhortation to Us All to Stay Desperate for Family, Friends, Souls, and Revival. |
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Charles Lawson | 02/11/2024 (SM) |
I Corinthians 1:22-24 I Corinthians 2:2 | The Burden of the Bible Is Christ, and the Burden of the Apostle Paul Was Also to Preach Christ and Him Crucified. The Power of the Cross Includes: Delivering Us From the Curse of the Law; Delivering Us From This World; Giving Us the Holy Spirit and the Fruit of the Spirit. |
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Andy Walden | 02/11/2024 (SN) | I John 1:9 | Take the Living Water Jesus Offers. Beware the Wiles of the Devil. You've Got to Take Your Pick. |
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II Kings 5:1 | The Story of Naaman the Leper and How His Little Jewish Maid Connected Him To God's Prophet Elisha. |
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Tom Gilliam | 02/04/2024 (SN) |
II Samuel 6:5-11 I Chronicles 15:24 | The Second Biblical Example of the Precious Set of People Who Are "Unknown Here But Well-known There" Is Obededom the Gitite Who Took in the Ark of the Covenant, Centered It in His Home; and, Thereby, He (His Household and All That Pertaineth to Him) Were Greatly Blessed. |
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Charles Lawson | 01/28/2024 (SM) | John 8:33-51 | The Self-Righteous Jewish Leaders Could Think of Nothing More Derisive Than to Call Jesus a Demon-Possessed Samaritan. But, From the Scripture We Read of Several Exemplary Individuals and the Lessons They Illustrate: the Woman At the Well (Gift of God); the Samaritan Leper Who Returned to Jesus (Thankfulness); and the Good Samaritan (Able Minister). The Grace of God Knows No Strangers; It Is A Fountain Head That Will Never Run Dry; and It Is For Everyone. |
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Charles Lawson | 01/28/2024 (SN) |
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Peter Pronounced and Jesus Christ Affirmed That the Prophecies of Christ Given in Scripture Are More Certain Proof Than Eyewitnesses of His Contemporaries. Moses Wrote the Law; Your Approach to the Ten Commandments Will Determine Which Way You Go. The Commandments Are a Manifestation of The Lord Jesus Christ. The Ten Commandments Will Not Save You, But the Savior Whom They Reveal Can. |
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Barry McDonald | 01/14/2024 (SM) | Micah 7:18-20 Colossians 2:13-14 | The Common Denominator Between the Scriptures from Micah and Colossians Is What the Lord Does with Sins That He Has Forgiven. Because We Do Not Forget Like God Does, Satan Will Use Our Past Against Us and "Take Us Fishing" for Sins That Have Already Been Blotted Out By the Lord. When We Are Drawn to Dwell on Past Mistakes -- Remember: No Trespassing and No Fishing. |
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Ronnie Crain | 01/14/2024 (SN) | John 1:7 | People Without God Have No Power To Resist Being Overcome By Sin. But Through Him--The Word of God and the Power of God (the Only Way)--The Believer Is Saved for Life Eternal and Saved From a Life Wasted Even Now. Marvelous Examples from the Lives of Renown Missionaries. |
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Charles Lawson | 01/07/2024 (SM) | Galatians 6:1-8 | Tearing Someone Down (Stone Throwing) Is Easier Than Building Back (Restoring). People Who Need Restoring May: Have a Broken Life, Shipwrecked Faith, Are Running from God, Confused, or Are Finished. In Order To Be a Restorer: (1) One Must Be Accepted by the Disheartened as Genuine; (2) One Must Have Empathy; (3) One Must Be Conscious of Grace Versus Law; (4) One Must Be Patient; and (5) One Must Be There. |