I have confessed two addictions from the pulpit, many times. One is food. By God’s grace, I have gotten that addiction under control. The other is more complicated. The best way I can describe it is like this: I am addicted to the attention, approval...
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God has blessed Samaritan’s Heart richly in many ways the past few months. One blessing was the ability to pay off the note on the church building. In addition to that amazing gift, God showed favor on Samaritan’s Heart in many other ways. It appears...
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Something occurred to me lately. There are a lot of instances in the Bible were people had to wait for three days for something to happen (This is not intended to be an exhaustive list): Jonah was in the whale three days (Many see this as...
Be 3:16 John 3:16 is, without doubt, one of the best-known verses in the Bible. It captures the essence of the Gospel in a way perhaps no other single verse does: “For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that...
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Sometimes Jesus craftily alluded to the Pharisees in his parables and other times he left no doubt in their collective mind that He was talking about them. First, who were the Pharisees? Here’s a helpful definition from gotanswers.org: The Pharisees were an influential religious sect within...
To stay connected with the neighborhood, I try to have breakfast at a diner just down the street from the church at least once a week. During my most recent visit, a server and another customer were having a conversation that caught my ear. The...
I have struggled with double vision ever since eye surgery as a teenager. I had surgery 22 years ago to address it, but I still need prisms in my eyeglasses to keep it under control. At my last eye exam, the optometrist determined that I...