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Pursuing Answers
Contributed by Mike Gilbert on Jun 26, 2007 (message contributor)
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1. I Beg Your Pardon
Contributed on Jun 26, 2007
Answers the questions: What does the Holy Spirit do? Is there an unpardonable sin?
*ILL>In 1954, Theodore Seuss Giesel (known to most of us as simply "Dr. Seuss") wrote his first children’s poem, Horton Hears A Who, in which Horton, an elephant, on the 15th of May in the Jungle of Nool, hears a small speck of dust talking to him. It turns out the speck of dust is actually a tiny ...read more
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2. Touched By An Angel
Contributed on Jun 26, 2007
Answers the questions: What are angels like? What do they do? What should we do knowing what we know?
*ILL>In 1951, the original movie starred Paul Douglas as Pittsburgh Pirates’ manager Aloysuys (Guffy) McGovern, a man with a profane vocabulary. Janet Leigh (as Jennifer Paige) was his love interest, and Keenan Wynn played the role of Fred Bayles, an angel who promised manager McGovern that the ...read more
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3. What's A Guy To Do?
Contributed on Jun 26, 2007
Fathers’ Day message. What’s the role of a godly dad?
There’s a difference between Mothers’ Day and Fathers’ Day. The difference is more than just a difference in whom we give tribute to, but also a big difference in how we approach those two days and what we do on those days. *ILL>Bill Cosby has offered us his theory on why Mothers’ Day seems ...read more
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4. Don't Drink The Kool-Aid!
Contributed on Jun 26, 2007
How to identify a cult, why they’re so dangerous, how we should respond to our neighbors and friends who are involved in Mormonism, Jehovah’s Witnesses and Christian Science.
*ILL>Fourteen years ago, the sight was "burned into our memories" (pun-intended). David Koresh’s Branch Davidians’ compound, named "Camp Apocalypse", caught on fire as the FBI came to arrest Koresh (actual name Vernon Law) for attempted murder of his son and a number of violations concerning ...read more
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5. One Citizen Under God
Contributed on Jul 1, 2007
What are our God-given responsibilities as Christian citizens? Can we be soldiers of the cross and still good citizens in the land?
ONE CITIZEN UNDER GOD *INTRO> There are slogans, sayings we’ve all heard concerning our nation over the years: -->America, love it or leave it. -->My country, right or wrong. -->Better dead than red. -->Power to the people. And there are statements that are especially applicable to our ...read more
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6. Righteous Rain
Contributed on Jul 5, 2007
Why does God allow bad things to happen to good people? Why does He allow His followers to suffer?
You’ve probably heard the questions asked before: -->If Denny’s restaurants are, as their slogan says, "always open," why do they have locks on their front doors? Why do those locks exist? -->What is the purpose of those two lines between your nose and lip (by the way, their anatomical name: ...read more
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7. Knockin' On Heaven's Door
Contributed on Jul 16, 2007
What’s heaven like?
*ILL>One Sunday morning a preacher asked the congregation, "How many want to go to heaven?" Hands went up everywhere. However one little boy on the front row didn’t raise his hand. The preacher, thinking maybe the boy hadn’t heard the question, asked again, "How many want to go to heaven?" Again, ...read more
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8. Apocalypse Soon
Contributed on Jul 31, 2007
End time events ahead, signs of their nearness to occurring, and what we should do now, knowing what we know.
Series: "Pursuing Answers" Message #9: "Apocalypse Soon" Walk into any bookstore in America, secular or Christian, and you will find rows and rows of books on prophecy, the end times. Turn on the radio or Christian television, and within minutes you’ll be able to hear some radio preacher or ...read more