Contributed by Bruce Ball on Oct 9, 2012
In verse 15, it tells us what will happen to those people who do not accept the Evil One’s mark:
“15 … and all who refuse to worship the image or take his mark will be killed.”
I saw recently where Motorola has developed an all inclusive data chip that is no larger than a grain of rice. It
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Contributed by Davon Huss on May 21, 2014
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In unChristian, David Kinnaman, president of the Barna Group, discusses some disheartening research concerning the failure of Christians in our day to remain distinct: "In virtually every study we conduct, representing thousands of interviews every year, born again Christians (talking about people
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Contributed by Peter Bines on Sep 22, 2005
John Newton wrote to a young minister advising that God leads his people through distresses, including a sense of their sinfulness. And His purpose? To: ’…preserve in you a due sense of your own unworthiness, and to convince you, that your
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Contributed by Chuck Sligh on Apr 19, 2011
SOMETHING TO BE SAVED FROM
To be saved, like the thief on the cross, you must see yourself as destitute of any goodness worthy of heaven and, like this thief, by faith receive the righteousness of Jesus Christ.
Vance Havner tells of a lady who came forward during the invitation in one of his
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Text: 1 Tim 6:11 But thou, O man of God (Timothy), flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.
Thoughts: we know at least a few things about Timothy, as recorded in the New Testament. He was from Lystra, a city in Asia Minor (Acts 16:1, this city
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Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Jul 9, 2010
GAME OF CHANCE
A person recently said to me as they were dying that the Bible was just a series of myths and stories, and if I want to, I can choose to live my life assuming that it is. I can choose to treat heaven like a GAME OF CHANCE and the Bible as something less than a sure thing. I can
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GOD'S CHAIR
When I was small, I used to play a game with my friends called musical chairs. Do you remember it? The object of the game was to be in possession of a chair when the music stopped. All through life it often seems we’re caught up in this game.
There are different kinds of chairs and in
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Contributed by Donnie Martin on Jun 28, 2004
Life’s Onlookers
A man’s life is always more forcible than his speech. When men take stock of him they reckon his deeds as dollars and his words as pennies. If his life and doctrine disagree the mass of
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Contributed by Bill Burress on Oct 23, 2009
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We know what a person is by their uniform. We can tell a policemen, or a chef, or a nurse by the way they are dressed. The Bible says when we accept Christ we put on Christ. We should put on Christ just
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I want to close by sharing something Gary Gunn told us about at our last Men’s Prayer Breakfast. Several years back, Steven, a young man with AIDS started attending our church. (This was back in the time when AIDS was scary to most people and we didn’t know a lot about it.) The sickness slowly
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Contributed by Richard Wafford on Nov 24, 2004
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Charles Swindoll says that competitive excellence requires one hundred percent all of the time. If you doubt that, try maintaining excellence by setting your standards at 92 percent. Or even 95 percent. People figure they’re doing fine so long as they get somewhat near it. Excellence gets reduced
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Dec 8, 2004
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Many of these rules for evaluating the behavior and social skills of children in public schools are exemplery for how Christians should behave in the church family:
Caring Cooperative Respectful
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Being inclusive • Thoughfful, kind• Recognize feelings• Understand others’ feelings
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Contributed by Michael Fritz on Nov 12, 2006
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Let us suppose we are back in the old days of the high priest, who took incense into the sanctum and went behind the veil and offered it there. And let us suppose that rubber—the worst-smelling thing I can think of when it burns—had been available in those days. Let us suppose that chips of rubber
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Contributed by Jung Lee on Jan 20, 2024
In a humorous yet thought-provoking comment, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson critiqued movies like 'Armageddon' and 'Moonfall' for violating more laws of physics per minute than any other movies. This observation serves as an interesting analogy for our spiritual lives. Much like
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Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Dec 11, 2025
[237 I] [9]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM - SCENES FROM THE GOSPELS - PART 9
They are here to enjoy! Scenes from the Gospels are very special to me. I love them. They have taken a lot of effort, and many, many months revision to get them as correct as possible with the difficult word limitations.
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