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  • Time Out Series

    Contributed by Alison Bucklin on Dec 2, 2000
    based on 84 ratings
     | 4,726 views

    On keeping the Sabbath, recognizing it as a gift from God, a temporary lifting of the curse of labor and economic utilitarianism.

    Before I became a Christian I got into a lot of New Age stuff, from Tarot to numerology. I didn’t spend a lot of time on numerology, I didn’t really start enjoying numbers until I got my computer, but I did find out that my personal number was seven. I don’t remember exactly how the formula goes ...read more

  • Treating The "unpresentable" With Special Care

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Jan 23, 2025
     | 55 views

    Losing that witness leaves a community injured, even emotionally and socially bankrupt.

    Third Sunday in Course 2025 Hundreds, perhaps thousands of people come into our lives over the seventy or eighty years of an average American lifetime. If we look at St. Paul’s words written almost two thousand years ago, describing an early Christian assembly, we can see images of people we have ...read more

  • Why Should We Be Good? Series

    Contributed by Andy Payne on Jun 14, 2010
     | 4,272 views

    Luke 6:31 Recognized as one of the most significant ideas, not only in all Scripture but in moral philosophy as well – termed the “golden rule.” See how the golden rule has changed today.

    Why should we be good? Re-Cap 1. Relativism 2. Sincere belief 3. Judgments 4. Moral Values Why Should we be Good? Ravi Zacharias notes that “religion that is based on truth, when reduced merely to sociological function, will disintegrate through abuse. Time has proven, in an even ...read more

  • Disqualified! Series

    Contributed by Joel Smith on Nov 14, 2008
     | 9,079 views

    Don’t let a desire for instant gratification disqualify you from God’s best.

    I think the five most nauseating words a person can hear are, “I’m sorry, you’ve been disqualified.” Disqualification means that no matter how hard you try or how well you’ve done, you will not reach your goal. There’s something that you can never have because you’ve been disqualified. ...read more

  • A Servant Church Loves Series

    Contributed by Alvin Hathaway, Sr. on Mar 16, 2009
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,833 views

    If the Servant Church models itself after Jesus Christ who ultimately taught us what a servant is: then the Servant Church must love God, it must love the children of God, and it must keep His commandant to love.

    A Servant Church Loves I John 5: 1-5 “We Love the Children of God” Verse 2: By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.” Hear Paul’s poem: I may speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but if I have no love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging ...read more

  • A Call To Recommitment.

    Contributed by Christopher Holdsworth on Sep 16, 2024
    based on 2 ratings
     | 1,080 views

    "Choose you this day" (Joshua 24:15).

    A CALL TO RECOMMITMENT. Joshua 24:14-25. Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, descendants of both Abraham and Jacob, and there they presented themselves before the LORD (cf. Joshua 24:1). Joshua recited the history of the dealings of the LORD with their nation thus far: ...read more

  • How To Be Mindful Of The Wholistic Needs Of Human And Societal Values

    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Aug 15, 2001
    based on 20 ratings
     | 2,532 views

    How to Be Mindful of the Wholistic NEEDS OF HUMAN AND SOCIETAL VALUES

    How to Be Mindful of the Wholistic NEEDS OF HUMAN AND SOCIETAL VALUES Still we can look at values from a cultural point of view which emerge from seven central needs of humans and human society interacting together, these are: 1. Economic good which one realizes the economic value called ...read more

  • Bioethics & Timeless Truths For Changing Times

    Contributed by Frederick Meekins on Jul 5, 2013
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,681 views

    Bioethics & Timeless Truths For Changing Times

    The rate of technological and cultural change is so fast and comprehensive in these days in which we live that futurist Alvin Toffler has likened the phenomena to waves sweeping over society and labeled the feeling of disoriented perplexity that settles over us in the wake as "Future Shock". Many ...read more

  • Renewing Our Covenant With The Lord

    Contributed by Christopher Holdsworth on Jun 28, 2018
    based on 3 ratings
     | 10,165 views

    Christians need to be constantly recalled to their first love, and churches to the rudiments (first principles) of the faith of a better generation.

    RENEWING OUR COVENANT WITH THE LORD. Joshua 24:1-3; Joshua 24:14-25. The choice of Shechem as the site for the renewal of the covenant after the conquests under Joshua is significant. This was where the LORD had promised Abram both ‘this land’ and ‘a seed’ to occupy it, and Abram had ‘built ...read more

  • Twenty-Third Sunday In Ordinary Time, Year A: Fraternal Correction In 632 Words

    Contributed by Paul Andrew on Aug 8, 2023
     | 1,029 views

    God’s watchful eye.

    On the backside of a one-dollar bill, we are reminded that we are being watched; that eye on top of a pyramid is officially called “the eye of providence: God’s watchful eye.” Although the masons, still today a forbidden group for Catholics to join, adopted the image, the eye was actually added by ...read more

  • Who Is Ready For The Meeting?

    Contributed by Chris Swanson on Nov 30, 2022
     | 580 views

    What happens when we die physically? Do our bodies remain in the ground? What about our souls?

    Prophetic truth has a utilitarian reason. It is to condemn the hearts of sinners. It is to empower Christians to holiness, and to provide hope and solace to Christians in the hour of death. This letter was composed to urge Christians to live purified lives while they await the return of ...read more

  • The Gift Of Life - Celebrating God's Gifts Series

    Contributed by Jeff Strite on Dec 7, 2003
    based on 264 ratings
     | 96,105 views

    God has given us the gift of life... but do we realize how wonderful a gift this is and what it means to us?

    OPEN: Bob Hope was one of the great comedian of the last century. As he was getting along in years, he once commented that he’d been reading and was astonished to discover: “Today my heart beat over 103,000 times, my blood traveled 168 million miles, I breathed 23,400 times, I inhaled 438 cubic ...read more

  • A Tree Planted By The Waters

    Contributed by Christopher Holdsworth on Feb 5, 2019
    based on 3 ratings
     | 10,669 views

    The two states of being, the two ways of life: confronting our own hearts.

    A TREE PLANTED BY THE WATERS. Jeremiah 17:5-10. The prophet Jeremiah’s response to the political and international situation of his day was, “Thus says the LORD” (Jeremiah 17:5). And what does the LORD say? He says, in effect, that there are two states of being, and two ways of life: and ...read more

  • Bowling Alone: Dying For Lack Of Hope

    Contributed by Michael Stark on Mar 24, 2018
    based on 3 ratings
     | 6,368 views

    The aloneness that has become a hallmark of our modern age presents a great opportunity for the people of God to present the message of life. As Christ calls people to rest in Him, the churches must echo that call.

    “Come to me, all who labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.” [1] Robert Putnam raised a red flag for people living in ...read more

  • Real Authority

    Contributed by Charles Wilkerson on Jan 29, 2015
     | 4,669 views

    How does Christ's authority differ from the various authorities we face each day

    My least favorite classes in my undergrad political science classes dealt with ‘political theory’. But I will always remember the discussion we had around the concept of ‘authority’ and what made for legitimate authority. Keep in mind this was at the winding down of Vietnam ...read more

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