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I Desire Mercy Not Sacrifice
Experiencing the mercy of God in our lives
Ready & Faithful
Looking to Jesus for help now and hope in the future
Why Suffering?
Help your church understand God's plan in pain
Chuck Swindoll in his book, Improving Your Serve, gives a memorable illustration: Let’s pretend that you work for me. In fact, you are my executive assistant in a company that is growing rapidly. I’m the owner and I’m interested in expanding overseas. To pull this off, I make plans to travel ...read more
Scripture: Genesis 3:1-13
Tags: Call Of The Disciples, Discipleship, Faith
Katie Fisher, 17, entered the Madison County Ohio Junior Livestock Sale hoping the lamb she had for sale would get a good price. For months Katie had been battling cancer. She had endured hospital stays and been through chemotherapy a number of times. Before the lamb went on the block, the ...read more
Scripture: Genesis 49:22-24
Tags: Giving General, Compassion, Forgiveness General
Denomination: Church Of God
A lot of people in our society spend a lot of time blaming others for their own lack of initiative, insight, ambition, and effort. The Southern Baptists one year had a slogan for church growth that would fit us individually: “If it is to be, it is up to me.” Zig Ziglar said, “If you’re looking ...read more
Scripture: Genesis 25:31-32
Tags: New Year's Day
Seven year old Tommy had been asking his parents for a dog but they were not convinced that the family needed one. After Tommy’s repeated pleas, his dad told him if he would help his mother with chores around the house he could earn enough money to buy a dog. Tommy was more than eager to accept ...read more
Scripture: Genesis 46:1-34
Tags: Redemption, Redeemed
Denomination: Baptist
POEM: “I Am Just a Raindrop” The following poem was heard on Paul Harvey’s broadcast in 2004: I AM JUST A RAINDROP I am just a raindrop I was born in the sky and settled into a hillside there to dance in the sun and sparkle And nourish green and growing things But there are other raindrops on the ...read more
Scripture: Genesis 8:1-10
Tags: Rubbish
GOD POSITIONING SYSTEM I was thinking a lot about this idea that Jesus is the way. He doesn't just tell us the way, He shows us. He is kind of like one of those GPS navigation system. GPS stands for the "Global Positioning System" that was originally designed for military use, but now is open ...read more
Scripture: Genesis 12:1-12
Tags: Kindness
Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed
Your Chains Are Gone You will never be a visionary if you cannot see your future. I had a Lab when we were pastored before, and I kept her on a chain. In a few days she had worn the ground to dirt all the way to the end of her chain. She would take off and stop at the dirt just before the ...read more
Scripture: Genesis 3:1-15
Tags: God Brings Hope
Denomination: Assembly Of God
I find it fascinating that there is universal agreement among the ancients that the hill on which Abraham tried to sacrifice Isaac, Mt. Moriah, is identified with the area in which the Temple of Jerusalem, and Calvary, were positioned. So in the very spot where God vowed to Abraham to bless him ...read more
Scripture: Genesis 22:1-19
Tags: Crucifixion
Denomination: Catholic
Americans spent $16.7 billion on organic food and beverages in 2006, a 126% increase in just five ...read more
Scripture: Genesis 9:3
Tags: Food
AMERICANS IN PAIN Americans in households making less than $30,000 a year spend nearly 20% of their lives in moderate to severe pain vs. less than 8% of those in households earning above $100,000, finds a study by Princeton economist Alan Krueger and Stony Brook Univ. professor Arthur Stone. The ...read more
Scripture: Genesis 3:14-19
Tags: Hardship Of Life
On the clearest night with a full sky in view, about 1,030 bodies of light can be counted with the ...read more
Scripture: Genesis 15:5
Tags: Creation
The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his ...read more
Scripture: Genesis 3:8
Tags: Culture
The Weather Bureau has changed its name to Environmental Science Services Administration and we still get six inches of ...read more
Scripture: Genesis 1:1-31
"Each 24 hours, the world turns over on someone who was ...read more
Scripture: Genesis 1:1
Tags: Worldliness
"Throughout the history of courtship, unchaste women have been the most chased and ...read more
Scripture: Genesis 24:1-66
Tags: Women
Sadly, we want a religion that doesn’t ask us to sacrifice, not even for a moment. Bob McFall, was a 39 yr. Old bachelor suffering from Aplastic Anemia. He needed a bone marrow transplant. A search was conducted among his family and they discovered that his first cousin was an ideal match to donate ...read more
Scripture: Genesis 2:1-3
Tags: Easter Palm Sunday
BROTHER’S BROTHER Robert Hingson is a physician, an anesthesiologist, working out of Pittsburgh. A Baptist layman, he got interested in the plight of the diseased peoples of the world. He found out that thousands of the world’s children are dying from a host of contagious diseases. So Bob Hingson ...read more
Scripture: Genesis 4:9
Tags: Christian Love
MARKED MEN There is a professor at Howard University Divinity School, a teacher and scholar, with an unusual name. A name that tells this very story. The distinguished professor of New Testament, the author of the book Troubling Biblical Waters, is named Cain Hope Felder. Dr. Felder tells his ...read more
Scripture: Genesis 4:10-26
Tags: Forgiveness In Jesus
WHAT’S YOUR LIFE WORTH? It’s worth $50,000, according to the international standard used most private and government-run health insurance plans to determine whether to cover a new medical procedure. More simply, insurance companies calculate that to make a treatment worth its cost, it must ...read more
Scripture: Genesis 1:31
APE RIGHTS The Spanish Parliament’s move to grant rights previously reserved for human beings to chimpanzees and other apes is a victory for those seeking to minimize the uniqueness of humanity, a bioethics specialist says. An environmental committee in Spain’s legislature approved a resolution on ...read more
Scripture: Genesis 1:26-27
Tags: Animals
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