The Jealousy
“But the high priest rose up, along with all his associates (that is the sect of the Sadducees), and they were filled with jealousy.” Acts 5:17 People were being saved spiritually, and healed physically. Demonic spirits were being cast out of others who were under oppression or in the possession of forces of darkness, from
Dream Catchers
Bill Hybels tells this inspiring story in his book, Who You Are When No One’s Looking. It started like so many evenings. Mom and Dad at home and Jimmy playing after dinner. Mom and Dad were absorbed with jobs and did not notice the time. It was a full moon and some of the light
Prime the Pump
When I was growing up, I often spent weeks at a time at my grandparents’ house on the farm. We had to sometimes prime the pump to get the water. The pump house was just outside in the back yard. Years ago, I went by the old farm place. The house was gone, the chicken
Where There’s Life There’s Hope
Read Romans 5:1-5 Hope is one of the great words of the Christian faith. It is one word the unsaved man simply cannot use, for the unsaved do not have any hope (Eph. 2:11-13). But the Christian has hope because he has life in Christ. We have hope because of salvation. We have been justified
Tax Recognition for Same-Sex Couples
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Why Christians Ought to Be Happy
by Ray M. Brown Psalm 34 I. They have all their thoughts established (vv. 1-3) II. They have all their fears banished. (v. 4) III. They have all their sins covered. (v. 5) IV. They have their prayers answered. (vv. 6, 15, 17) V. They have been delivered from all their enemies. (v. 7) VI.
"Our Lord sent His disciples out as sheep among wolves; now the wolves are being invited into the sheepfold." - Vance Havner
Sheep
"Teachers who teach Western education? We will kill them! We will kill them in front of their students and tell the students to henceforth study the Koran." - Abubakar Shekau (leader of Nigerian Islamist group whose men killed 46 students on July 6, 2013 in an assault on a boarding school)
Islam and the Koran
What’s a Mulligan?
(from Online Word of the Day, July 2013) mulligan, n.2[‘ An extra stroke allowed after a poor shot (esp. a tee-shot) in a friendly game, not counted on the score card.’] Pronunciation: Brit. /ˈmʌlᵻɡ(ə)n/, U.S. /ˈmələɡ(ə)n/ Forms: also with capital initial. Etymology:Probably < the name of David. B. Mulligan (1871–1954), Canadian-born hotelier and amateur golfer,
Singer Silenced
World Magazine, September 2013 “Grammy winning gospel singer Donnie McClurkin said he was disinvited from a concert he was supposed to headline commemorating Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech because of his position on homosexuality. McClurkin, who has said that he struggled with homosexuality, wrote in 2002, “I am delivered and I
Making the Best of a Bad Decision
How to put your regrets behind you, embrace grace, and move toward a better future – Erwin W. Lutzer. Tyndale. We all make life decisions we come to regret, but here’s the good news: You can clear your conscience, make things right with God and others, and get to a place of grace and new
The Men We Need for the Revival We Need
Written by: Bill Elliff “Truly I say to you, among those born of women there has not arisen anyone greater than John the Baptist. Yet the one who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.” (Matthew 11:11) All of us want to fulfill our destiny and rise to whatever level of