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Category Archives: Discernment
What Bubba Smith Learned Too Late
Bubba Smith was an All-American football player at Michigan State. He is one of only three players from that program to have his jersey number retired. Following his collegiate career, he was the #1 overall pick of the 1967 NFL … Continue reading
Posted in Alcohol, Character, Choices, Decisions, Discernment, Discipleship, Doing Good, Dress and Appearance, Drugs, Entertainment, Family, Gambling, God's Will, Holiness, Honesty, Influence, Justice, Personal Holiness, Righteousness, Sanctification, Separation, Sin, Sports, Temptation, Truth
Tagged Bubba Smith, Bubba Smith sorry for his beer commercials, Dick Butkus, kill Bubba kill, Miller Lite commercials, Philippians 4:8, tastes great less filling
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When God Doesn’t Seem to Care
How long, O Lord? Will You forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me? How long must I wrestle with my thoughts and every day have sorrow in my heart? How long will my enemy triumph … Continue reading
Posted in Adversity, Attitude, Children, Christ's Death, Comfort, Complaining, Depression, Disappointment, Discernment, Doubt, Encouragement, Faith, Faithfulness, Fatherhood, God's Love, Honesty, Needs, Parenting, Pastors, Persecution, Personal, Prayer, Prayer Requests, Problems, Suffering, Thankfulness, Trials, Trusting In God
Tagged god, God has been good to me, How long O Lord?, psalms, thoughts from Psalm 13, what to do when God doesn't seem to care, when you feel abandoned by God, your enemy triumphing over you
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“Why Sit Here Until We Die?”
“Why sit here until we die?” That question is at the heart of one of the Bible’s most incredible stories, 2 Kings 7:1-20, and it’s a question that still has relevance to a multitude of situations today. So, let’s talk … Continue reading
Posted in Addiction, Adversity, Attitude, Change, Choices, Church, Complaining, Contentment, Courage, Decisions, Desires, Discernment, Faith, Fear, God's Timing, God's Guidance, God's Provision, God's Will, Inner Peace, Needs, Problems, Seeking Advice, Suffering, Trusting In God
Tagged Ben Hadad, changing in order to stay alive, Jehoram, the lepers who entered the Syrian camp, the siege of Samaria, when a change is needed, Why sit here until we die?
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By His Stripes We Are Healed
Religious television programming has been dominated by preachers of the Charismatic/Pentecostal persuasion since the first day satellites started beaming such programming into our homes. Consequently, because one of the tenets of Charismatic/Pentecostal doctrine is that it’s always God’s will to … Continue reading
Posted in Christ's Death, Christ's Miracles, Creation, Discernment, Eternity, God's Will, God's Word, Heaven, Human Life, Prophecy, Restoration, Resurrection, Salvation, Scripture, Sickness, Sin, Suffering, The Bible, The Gospel, Truth
Tagged all creation subjected to futility, by His stripes we are healed, Faith, Is healing provided in the atonement?, Is it always God's will to heal?, Isaiah 53:5 and 1 Peter 2:24-25, jesus, passages that say that it isn't always God's will to heal, the Christian receiving a glorified body, the Rapture
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Strange Looking Bread & Fish
“Or what man is there among you who, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for fish, will he give him a serpent? If you then, being evil, know how to give … Continue reading
Posted in Adversity, Anger, Attitude, Complaining, Contentment, Desires, Disappointment, Discernment, Discipleship, Faith, Faithfulness, God's Omniscience, God's Provision, God's Sovereignty, God's Will, God's Work, Impatience, Needs, Prayer, Prayer Requests, Problems, Suffering, Trials, Trusting In God, Wisdom
Tagged asking for a fish and getting a serpent, Faith, finding bread in stones, finding fish in serpents, Matthew 7:9-11, Prayer, when God answers your prayer in a different way, when you asked for bread and got a stone
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A Tip for Determining God’s Will
Like everybody else I make about a zillion decisions each day. Some are as simple as, “Should I have a ham sandwich or a tuna fish sandwich for lunch?” Others are as complex as, “Should we list our house with … Continue reading
A Lot of Moving Parts But Not Much Production
There was once an inventor who built an amazing machine. It was six feet high and five feet long and had a total of 5,626 parts (wheels, gears, shafts, chains, belts, etc.), to say nothing of all the nuts, bolts, … Continue reading
Behind the Times
A devout old Christian was visited by his grandson who was on Spring Break from college. “How are you doing, Gramps?” asked the grandson. “Fine, just fine,” said the old man. “How is school going?” the old man asked. Are … Continue reading
Posted in Abortion, Aging, Atheism, Belief, Bible Study, Capital Punishment, Children, Coming Judgment, Commitment, Creation, Current Events, Discernment, Discipleship, Discipline, Doctrine, Elderly, Eternity, Faithfulness, Family, Fatherhood, God's Holiness, God's Omnipotence, God's Sovereignty, God's Word, Government, Heaven, Hell, Homosexuality, Husbands, Marriage, Motherhood, Salvation, Scripture, The Bible, The Death Penalty, The Gospel, Trusting In God, Truth, Wisdom, Wives, Youth
Tagged a Christian behind the times, Abortion, believing the Bible, Bible, christianity, conversation between a grandfather and his grandson, evolution, Faith, god, God creating Adam and Eve, Heaven, Hell, Homosexuality, jesus, sticking with what the Bible says
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Something to Consider When Troubles Come Your Way
You have to love Gideon. As he lived in a time when God seemed to be a million miles from Israel, and as he dealt each day with the fallout from that situation, he became a realist. And as a … Continue reading
Posted in Adversity, Complaining, Depression, Disappointment, Discernment, Faithfulness, God's Chastening, God's Judgment, God's Provision, God's Will, God's Work, Influence, Ministry, Obedience, Persecution, Prayer, Problems, Restoration, Service, Suffering, Trials, Trusting In God
Tagged getting hurt by the sins of others, gideon, Gideon a mighty man of valor, If the Lord is with us why has all this happened to us?, Israel not driving out the Canaanites, Israel's Judges, judges, the pattern for the book of Judges, the time period of the book of Judges, you being the solution to your own problems
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Popcorn Poppers & Irons
Some of us are old enough to remember eating popcorn made from a popcorn popper rather than a microwave. We’re also old enough to remember when people not only owned irons but actually used them. The following story stems from … Continue reading
Posted in Change, Church, Communication, Current Events, Discernment, Evangelism, God's Work, Ministry, Music, Personal, Preaching, Priorities, Sunday School, The Gospel, Worship
Tagged christianity, Church, recent changes in churches, rules at Bob Jones university, the modernization of the church, the problem of outdated rules, What were the early churches like?
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