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Archive for April, 2010

The Lord began His great sermon, known as the Sermon on the Mount with these words, “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.” (Matthew 5:3) With these words Jesus began one of the greatest orations in the history of mankind. There have been many great speeches or sermons given [...]

“Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be comforted.” – Matthew 5:4With these words, Jesus continued His great “Sermon on the Mount” With them He builds upon the first Beatitude, “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.” (Matthew 5:3) The one who is poor in spirit recognizes his [...]

Thaddeus of Jericho was a member of the Sanhedrin Council. As a teenage boy growing up in Jericho, while standing in the shade of a sycamore tree, he witnessed Jesus’ entry into Jericho and His subsequent healing of a blind man. As Jesus approached the sycamore tree under which he was standing, their eyes briefly [...]

Dear Heavenly Father:Words cannot describe my feelings of gratitude and love for You. You have given me all that I have, and You have seen to it that nothing I needed was held back from me. You gave me life; You gave me of your time and You even gave to me that which was [...]

Introduction:The Book of Romans was written by the apostle Paul from the city of Corinth in approximately AD 56. At the time of his writing, he had yet to visit Rome, though he greatly desired to do so. It was not until approximately AD 61 that he was able to “visit” Rome, and then, only [...]

(My apologies for not updating this blog recently – this was published in our bulletin on July 2nd)On November 19, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln, opened his famous Gettysburg Address with these words, “Four-score and seven years ago, (now 230 years ago) our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and [...]

Adapted from U.S. Marine Corps’ Rifleman’s Creed… (not a suggestion that we adopt this or any human creed)“This is my Bible. There are many like it, but this one is mine. It is my life. I must master it in order to master my life. Without my study, my Bible is useless. [...]

A Christian is an individual who has wholly given himself or herself to God through Jesus Christ. A Christian is one who, believing in Jesus, has made the good confession, repented of past sins, and been washed in the blood of Christ, the Lamb of God, by immersion into the watery grave of baptism, in [...]

One of the biggest problems facing the church today and our society as a whole is that we are raising up a generation of spoiled and unrestrained children. The children of today will be the ones leading our country and the church in the future. The future of the church in this country may not [...]

Many people in the religious world today are attempting to discredit the apostle Paul and his teachings. The attitudes toward Paul that are expressed by “self-proclaimed” Christians are mind-boggling, except when you understand their misguided reasoning for them. Why is Paul held in such contempt by many religious people? One of the primary reasons that [...]

In Ephesians 5:17, Paul exhorts the Ephesian brethren, “Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.” True wisdom is the knowledge and understanding of the will of God and the application thereof. The will of God is found in His word. It is only through the Word of God [...]