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Honest Self-Confrontation
- Imagine that you’re a king or someone in authority and part of your responsibility is serving as judge over cases where a possible injustice has occurred… - a person comes to you and tells you a story of two men who live in his city, one who is rich and the other poor… -…Read More -
Joyful Remembrance
- at our church, we believe the Scripture teaches us to practice “2 ordinances” as a church family… - ordinance – “an outward practice commanded by Christ and perpetuated by the church as a visible symbol of a spiritual reality.” - now, each piece of that definition is important… - we are very interested in…Read More -
Humble Analysis
- in his book The Abolition of Man, C.S. Lewis coined several unusual phrases, including the possibility of human beings becoming like “trousered apes,” or “urban blockheads,” or most famously, “men without chests…” - He was defending the existence of objective value…and the importance of teaching people, especially children in our educational systems, to love…Read More -
Authentic Suffering
Introduction – Doing hard things. - how frequently do you look at a task or responsibility that lies before you and think, “that’s going to be hard”?... - does that happen on a fairly regular basis for you, or is your life filled with different variations of the “easy button”… - no, we’re all called…Read More -
Bad Things Happen to Good People - Another Look
- Introduction - in 1981, a brand new book was published entitled When Bad Things Happen to Good People…[show pic]…the author is Harold Kushner who is described by his publisher as a conservative Jewish rabbi… - this book was on the New York Times’ bestseller list for months, and has sold well over 4 million…Read More -
You Can Learn to Put the Past in its Place
- When I was in Bible college, I was 700 miles away from my family. - That meant that I made a lot of trips back and forth for holidays, summer breaks, and other special events. - This was back in the days when the speed limit on some of our country’s roads was 55…Read More -
Your Past Can Be One of Your Worst Enemies
- When I was a boy my family had a short wooden fence in our side yard. - One day several of us discovered that the wind had blown it down. - Being the creative youngsters we were, we spent hours carrying it around, riding on it, and doing all sorts of things my father…Read More -
Your Past Can Be One of Your Best Friends
- Those who have been at our church for a long period of time know that one of the jobs I had while going through Bible College and seminary was constructing in-ground swimming pools. - The owner of the business sold the pools and then paid me a set price to perform the installation. -…Read More
