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Faithful to the Finish
Peter's final call to a young and growing church
Grace and Glory
A short series through the highlights of 1 Peter
Entrusted
Gifts, risk, and the return of the King
Common sense is genius dressed in its ...read more
Scripture: 1 Peter 1:13
Tags: Thought
The best memory is that which forgets nothing but injuries. Write kindness in marble ...read more
Scripture: 1 Thessalonians 4:13-14
Tags: Memories
Sin and the child of God are incompatible. They may occasionally meet; they ...read more
Scripture: 1 John 3:1-10
Tags: Sin General
BURIED TREASURE FOR ISAAC One night, a poor Jewish man named Isaac from Krakel, Poland, in a vivid dream, saw a buried treasure hidden under a particular bridge in the distant city of Prague. For the next two weeks, he dreamed of the particular city, the same bridge, and the buried treasure. The ...read more
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 2:1-16
Tags: Blessing
THE STAGES OF THE CHRISTIAN LIFE Several years ago I heard someone describe the Christian experience as similar to that of a piano player, and suddenly the commands of the Bible made more sense and seemed less daunting. When a person begins playing piano, do we expect them to play a piece by ...read more
Scripture: 1 Peter 2:1-3
Tags: Growth In Christ
BIGGER PERSON One day, two men appeared before a judge to have settled a dispute. One argued that the other had moved the boundary marker by five feet and thereby has taken possession of his land. After listening to both arguments and going through some documents the judge could not determine ...read more
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 6:1-8
Tags: Boasting, Attitude General
Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational
LOTTERY BLISS UNREALISTIC Every year Americans spend over $50 billion trying to produce an advantage for themselves by winning the lottery. But only a small fraction of those who participate beat the astronomical odds and win the big jackpots. And even those who win find that any joy that they ...read more
Scripture: 1 Timothy 6:3-10
Tags: Money
BAREFOOT CHRISTIANS: A PARABLE "I arrived in the city of EVERYWHERE early one morning. It was cold, and there were flurries of snow on the ground. As I stepped from the train to the platform, I noticed that the baggage man and the redcap were warmly attired in heavy coats and gloves, but oddly ...read more
Scripture: 1 John 4:10-12
Tags: Christian Love
Real Men Wear ...read more
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 15:38
Tags: Evolution, Beards
Denomination: Baptist
CORRECT PHILOSOPHY Ravi Zacharias: "A correct philosophy must be logically consistent, empirically adequate and experientially relevant; all answers must individually correspond to reality, all answers must be coherent with each other." A philosophy must address origin, ...read more
Scripture: 1 Thessalonians 5:21
Tags: Apologetics General
THE LITTLE SATELLITE THAT COULD In 1972, NASA launched the exploratory space probe Pioneer 10. According to Leon Jaroff in Time magazine, the satellite’s primary mission was to reach Jupiter, photograph the planet and its moons, and beam data to earth about Jupiter’s magnetic field, radiation ...read more
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 15:58
Tags: Endurance
WE CAN OVERCOME Take for example Egyptian hieroglyphics. In seminary I had plenty of brilliant folks for classmates, just amazing people. One man, Kevin was with us on our trip to the Holy Land. Kevin finishing his M.Div at Princeton and was soon on his way to Harvard for a Ph.D. in biblical ...read more
Scripture: 1 John 5:4-5
Tags: God Brings Hope
HARD WORK IS WORTH IT The story is told of a nursery worker about to plant a number of young saplings, some straight and some crooked, thus reasoned with himself – "These straight saplings will no doubt grow up to be fine trees without much attention on my part; but I will see if, by proper ...read more
STANDING ALONE Richard Exley relates a story in his book, Deliver Me. He grew up in a very similar church as to what this one is now. In fact, the church that he is from, in years past, held the same convictions that we still hold today. In the past, you could not tell a difference between how ...read more
Scripture: 1 Thessalonians 5:22
Tags: Temptation General, Temptation Resisting
HOW WILL YOU EVER LEARN? I heard the story of a nine-year-old girl who returned from Sunday School and as her father was sitting down with his newspaper after a delicious Sunday lunch, she asked him some questions. "Daddy, why did God make all the leaves green?" He thought a moment and replied, ...read more
Dr A. C. Dixon: “When we rely on organization, we get what organization can do; when we rely on education, we get what education can do; when we rely on eloquence, we get what ...read more
Scripture: 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18
Tags: Trust, Prayer, Prayer General
Denomination: Independent/Bible
FOLLOW ME. (Christ’s Steps) It is reported that St. Wenceslaus, King of Bohmia, one winters night, going to his devotions in the snow barefooted, his servant, who endeavoured to imitate his master’s piety, began to faint, through the inclemency of the weather, till the king commanded him to follow ...read more
Scripture: 1 Peter 2:21-25
Tags: Discipleship
A problem for many christians in dealing with temptations is that though they remember to command Satan to get behind ...read more
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 10:11-14
Tags: Temptation, Temptation General
Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed
WE ARE THE MESSAGE, CHRIST IS THE GOAL James S. Stewart, A Faith to Proclaim: "Christian preaching begins only when faith in the message has reached such a pitch that the man or the community proclaiming it becomes part of the message proclaimed ... To be thus taken command of, so that our ...read more
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 1:22-24
Tags: Evangelism How To
INTERCESSION: PYRAMID PRAYER? Philip Yancey in his book on prayer tells of a young American soldier in Iraq who learns that his wife back home has advanced cervical cancer. Doctors gave a bleak prognosis. In desperation, he sent an urgent email to his church with the request that everyone in turn ...read more
Scripture: 1 Kings 13:6
Tags: Intercession
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