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Happy Easter! He is risen! He is risen indeed. I had the real joy a few years ago (7! can you believe it?) to preach an “Easter” sermon at Gainesville Bible Church. It wasn’t on Easter proper but during the Easter season. I remember staying up for days studying 1 Corinthians 15, one of the…
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“We are frail, we are fearfully and wonderfully made / forged in the fire of human passion, choking on the fumes of selfish rage And these our hells and our heavens are so few inches apart / We are awfully small and not as strong as we think we are.” — Rich Mullins, “Not as…
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For those who were not aware, I spent the past two weeks in England and Scotland, attending a leadership conference with Christian Associates and then visiting Scotland on a research and observation trip. It was an amazing 14 days that proved to be just as emotionally enriching as it was informative. I started off at…
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Tonight my church hosted an amazing guy, Jordanian pastor Nabeeh Abbassi, Provost of Jordan Evangelical Theological Seminary. Nabeeh is a die-hard, wonderful man who is being used by God — in the public eye — to serve the Christian church in Jordan and stand up for religious rights in his country. He shared many stories…
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You’d think I’d know better by now. Little can ruin a great mood for me better than my mail. Granted, I once thought getting mail was the awesomest thing in the world. For example, when I was in college I just died inside if I didn’t get something other than campus memos in my box.…
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Jesus looked around and said to his disciples, “How hard it is for the rich to enter the kingdom of God!” The disciples were amazed at his words. But Jesus said again, “Children, how hard it is to enter the kingdom of God! It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of…
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He (God) defends the cause of the fatherless and the widow, and loves the alien, giving him food and clothing. (Deut. 10:18; see also 24:19-21) If there is a poor man among your brothers in any of the towns of the land that the LORD your God is giving you, do not be hardhearted or…
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As Jesus and his disciples were on their way, he came to a village where a woman named Martha opened her home to him. She had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet listening to what he said. But Martha was distracted by all the preparations that had to be made. She…
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Today it was tough to listen to Texas Rangers slugger Josh Hamilton tell the Dallas/Fort Worth media and Rangers fans everywhere about his recent alcohol relapse. His voice mixed with emotion, self-anger, sadness and resolution, Josh told of a night when he found himself emotionally off-guard at a restaurant and ordered one drink, then two.…
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Ever had something slip off the tip of your tongue? I assume that means you said something you probably didn’t intend but your brain maliciously let go. Ever had something stuck on the tip of your tongue? You need to say something or you really want to say something but you just can’t find the…
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