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It’s Not A Dash Or Sprint

2 TIMOTHY 4:7 – I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.”  It was a painful but powerful lesson I learned.  We did not have a track team in my high school until my junior year.  We also didn’t have a “real” track coach. Just a teacher who had time on his hands.  So,…

The Three Most Important Questions in Life

HEBREWS 4:12-13 –   For the word of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart. And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are open and laid bare…

Life’s Most Important Question

MARK 8:27-30 – And Jesus went on with his disciples to the villages of Caesarea Philippi. And on the way he asked his disciples, “Who do people say that I am?” And they told him, “John the Baptist; and others say, Elijah; and others, one of the prophets.” And he asked them, “But who do you say that I am?” Peter answered…

Yes, The Devil Is Real and Personal

JOB 1:6-12 – Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan also came among them. The Lord said to Satan, “From where have you come?” Satan answered the Lord and said, “From going to and fro on the earth, and from walking up and down on it.” And the Lord said…

Don’t Practice Lips-Only Christianity

MATTHEW 15:7-9 – You hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, when he said: “‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me; in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’”   THEME OF THE DAY.  DON’T PRACTICE LIPS-ONLY CHRISTIANITY. In today’s scripture, Jesus gives a scathing indictment to the religious crowd.…

The Place Where Power and Influence are Fostered

ACTS 4:5-13 – On the next day their rulers and elders and scribes gathered together in Jerusalem, with Annas the high priest and Caiaphas and John and Alexander, and all who were of the high-priestly family. And when they had set them in the midst, they inquired, “By what power or by what name did you do this?” Then Peter, filled with…