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Waiting and Watching

“I wait for the Lord, my soul waits, and in His Word I hope; my soul waits for the Lord more than watchmen for the morning, more than watchmen for the morning.” -Psalm 130:5-6 Each year, the first week of Advent always includes the Paul Anderson Christmas Dinner Theater in »

Blast from the Past

“Oh that my words were written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book! Oh that with an iron pen and lead they were engraved in the rock forever! For I know that my Redeemer lives, and at the last He will stand upon the earth. And after my skin »

Good and Evil

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]“No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and He will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation He will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.” -1 Corinthians 10:13 A battle »

Once for All

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]“You must be born again.” –Jesus, John 3:7 Last June 6th, about thirty veterans of D-Day, all in their 90s and 100s, celebrated seventy-five years of the greatest of victories in Normandy, France. D-Day was the largest naval, air, and land operation in history. Hitler himself was astounded by what »

God Is Simply God

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]“Yours, O Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, for all that is in the heavens and in the earth is yours. Yours is the kingdom, O Lord, and you are exalted as head above all. Both riches and honor come »

Rest in Peace

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]“Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.” -Ephesians 1:2 “Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.” -Romans 5:1 “Requiescat in pace” is the oft-expressed Latin phrase for the familiar “RIP” used in »

Falling Away

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]“I have said all these things to you to keep you from falling away.” –Jesus, John 16:1 The Gospels are filled with the teachings of Jesus. The Apostle John tells us that if all the things that Jesus said and did were recorded, the books written would fill the world »

Few or Many?

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]“Then one said to Him, ‘Lord, are there few who are saved?’…” -Luke 13:23 “After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, »

Many Pigs, One Man

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]“Then the demons came out of the man and entered the pigs, and the herd rushed down the steep bank into the lake and drowned.” -Luke 8:33 This is a strange story to say the least. A quite deranged man met Jesus directly as He got out of a boat »

The Interminable Wail

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]“Behold, He is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see Him, even those who pierced Him, and all tribes of the earth will wail on account of Him. Even so. Amen.” -Revelation 1:7 Bad habits often linger. I have a terrible habit of sometimes spontaneously letting out a »

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