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Spiritual Correctedness

“But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel” (Psalm 22:3). Put that in your own computer and you will find a similar thing that I did: there are a lot of red lines under it. What does that mean? People just simply do not talk like that anymore. However, the message …

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Snake Salvation

For many people, the debate between faith and works will most likely never be solved. Driven by what they have been told most of their life – that salvation comes as a result of belief and nothing more – simply suggesting the idea of doing something alongside that is anathema. “There is nothing you can …

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Show Me God!

 Throughout the ages, man has been obsessed with the supernatural. Ancient Greeks desired to have their pagan gods come down to them, and still even today people long for signs from UFO’s, looking for them in “crop circles” and “unexplained sightings.” These so-called “visitations” have, for the most part, been explained by modern science, but …

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Should I Be Baptized for the Dead?

It’s not often that one comes across a verse that most people don’t have an answer for, either right or wrong. Usually people are quick to deem one as the “correct” answer, even if it’s blatantly incorrect, just for the sake of having an answer in the first place, rather than have the question just …

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Reflections on the Prodigal Son

The parable of the Prodigal Son (Luke 15:11-32) is a tale of two worlds: on one hand, there is the remarkable amount of apathy from the son towards the father, and on the other, an even more remarkable amount of love and forgiveness from the father back to that same son. Countless sermons have been …

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Reconciling Relationships Rapidly

Relationships among brethren can become one of the hardest minefields to navigate this side of eternity. Whether stemming from a deep seated theological disconnect (i.e. someone living in sin and needing to change), or something as simple as an alleged pew-thief that needs to take the carpet walk to the front and apologize, how we …

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Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread

As a Regus Professor of Medicine at Oxford, a founder of the world-famous Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and a knight – made so by the King of England himself – William Osler was a man that many regarded as being of “exceptional intellectual quality.” Yet, in a speech to students at Yale University in …

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The Power of the Pulpit

Jerry Seinfeld once said, “The number one fear of all people is public speaking; number two is death. Death is number two? This means that if you had to be at a funeral, you would rather be in the casket than doing the Eulogy.” While this statement may be humorous, the reality of the situation …

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Part of the World, Just Not Part of the World

Look around you. The people that you see to your left and right look like you, talk like you, walk like you, and generally act very similar to the way that you do. We all have a left ventricle, a right nostril and a head on our shoulders, and if you were to line 100 …

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Modern-Day Synagogues

In John 4:35, Jesus told His disciples, “Lift up your eyes, and look to the fields, for they are already white for harvest!” When the disciples opened up their eyes and saw the multitudes following Jesus, imagine the excitement they felt when they knew that all these people held an interest in knowing who Jesus …

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