Independence Day:God's Closeness in Uncertain Times
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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
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
Tags: Creation
"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
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
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
THE MIRACLE IN A BUG Shortly before his death, the legendary film producer Cecil B DeMille wrote this beautiful meditation: "One day as I was lying in a canoe, a big black beetle came out of the water and climbed up into the canoe. I watched it idly for some time. Under the heat of the sun, the ...read more
Scripture: Genesis 1:26
BROTHER LAWRENCE AND DISCIPLINES Around 1610, a child was born in France by the name Nichols Herman. Later in life, he would become known as Brother Lawrence. As a young man, he fought in the Thirty Years War and sustained a near fatal His injury to his sciatic nerve. The injury left him quite ...read more
Scripture: Genesis 6:9
Tags: Discipleship, Recognition, Seeking Christ
Who Would You Quote in Outer Space? On Christmas Day 1968, the three astronauts of Apollo 8 circled the dark side of the moon and headed for home. Suddenly, over the horizon of the moon rose the blue and white earth, garlanded by the glistening light of the sun against the black void of space. ...read more
Scripture: Genesis 1:1-5
CHOOSING TO BELIEVE WHAT'S IMPOSSIBLE Evolutionists say that life arose as a result of spontaneous generation; that it all began as inorganic matter, or pre biotic soup, a puddle of green slime. They call it a "fortuitous concourse of atoms." Doesn’t that sound intellectual? A flash of lightning ...read more
Tags: Apologetics General
START OF THE HUMAN RACE A little girl asked her mother, "How did the human race start?" The mother answered, "God made Adam and Eve and they had children, and so all mankind was made." Two days later, the girl asked her father the same question. The father answered, "Many years ago, there were ...read more
Scripture: Genesis 1:26-27
Denomination: Seventh-Day Adventist
OBEDIENCE IS WHAT MATTERS "… If two angels in heaven were given assignments by God at the same time, one of them to go and rule over the greatest nation on earth and the other to go sweep the streets of the dirtiest village, each angel would be completely indifferent as to which one got which ...read more
Scripture: Genesis 22:17-18
Tags: Obedience