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A Beach Chair In Glory

               Most of the time when I write bulletin articles, I want them to reflect a positive beginning to our Sunday mornings. We are not strangers to the devil’s tricks as he often tempts us to stay away from church with faux illnesses, or short of keeping us home, will do everything he can to…

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Systematic Faith

For the past few weeks, I have used my nighttime devotions to review the doctrines of the faith in the format of systematic theology. Some of you may not understand these terms and are not clear what we mean by systematic. Do not feel too bad about not knowing this technical term because you are…

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Sing To The Glory Of God

               Today our worship begins with the reading of scripture and our first congregational song. We will sing Therefore the Redeemed of the Lord, and in keeping with the theme of this song our scripture reading to start the day is Isaiah 51:1-11. The 11th verse of this chapter inspires our song: “Therefore the redeemed…

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His Return Overshadows Ours

               It is a welcome, exceptionally good feeling to return to our home church this Sunday morning. We have greatly missed the fellowship of those in our covenant relationship within the Lord’s church. We thank God for your continued faithfulness to Him and the work He calls us to do. Often, the times and the…

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Where Is God?

Psalm 44           In the last few weeks, my daily Bible reading has centered in the Old Testament books of the Pentateuch. The great prophet Moses wrote these first five books of the Hebrew scriptures which chronicle the accounts of creation and the history of the beginning of the nation of Israel. The story of…

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Searching and Correcting

Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded… Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up. (James 4:7,8,10) In these…

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Are You Willing?

Psalms 81:10-16          Recently I someone asked a question about Matthew 23:37 in which Jesus said, “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!”…

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Faithful Church Members

During my long absence this past summer, it was natural for me to think about the faithfulness of our Berean members. As God’s chosen people, fellowship in the gospel church is our highest priority. It is in the church that we receive instruction in God’s word and learn what we should do to honor and…

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Ingratitude

I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother. But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together… (Psalms 35:14-15a)           If I were to give a name to the 35th Psalm, I would call it the psalm of the…

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Jehovah and Job

         The sermons and articles of the past few weeks may leave you feeling trounced and beaten to a pulp. When we preach scriptures dealing with the natural moral condition of mankind, we will not go away from them thinking too highly of ourselves. Neither should we because the scriptures force us to see ourselves…

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Depravity Deliberated

          Today’s message concludes Mark 7, a chapter in which Mark carefully crafts a synopsis of Jesus’ teachings and demonstrations of the moral condition of all people. The summation is the 21st through the 23rd verses: “For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit,…

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