Tag: Bible study
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Simple Acts Of Faith
We might be called upon to take huge life-altering risks or to endure physical torture and death for our faith. But what if we’re not? How can we show our faith if we’re just living a normal life without such extreme circumstances?
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It Takes One To Know One
You probably know the old saying, “it takes one to know one,” but why is it so much easier to see any given fault in someone else than it is to see it in ourselves? Could it be that God brought Israel face to face with a picture of their own unrighteousness magnified so that…
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Letting Go Of Injustice
Until we learn to let the little things go, we have no hope of learning to move on from the greater grievances of this life.
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Staying Positive in a Negative World
The only place to be positive is a negative world. In heaven there will be no need for optimism. It’s only in a world with problems that “being positive” can really mean anything.
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On Runaway Horses and Scurrying Rats
I remember one night at the jail when Sue was teaching on self-control, she talked about how we would prefer to control other people. She said that if we had a remote control that worked on people, there are plenty of folks we would choose to mute, or we would make them go away simply…
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Easy Evangelism
Come, see a Man who told me all things that I ever did. Could this be the Christ?John 4:29 As many of you know, my jail ministry mentor and partner, Mrs. Sue, went to be with the Lord last October. The jail doesn’t allow people in for ministry until they have attended a training session,…
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Pentecost Harvest
Did you know that Pentecost was a harvest celebration? Pentecost is the Greek word (meaning fiftieth day) used in the New Testament to refer to the Jewish Feast of Harvest, which is a celebration of the early wheat harvest every spring. (Exodus 23:16, 34:22).
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How God Plays Favorites
One of the most moving poems you’ll ever read is “Charge of the Light Brigade” by Tennyson. It memorializes the bravery of six hundred English soldiers who, because of poorly communicated orders, went up against a horde of Russians with no hope of victory at the Battle of Balaklava during the Crimean War in 1854.
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