Mark 1:1-7 We have become a people that are weary, tired, and broken by the things and events that we deal with on a daily basis.  We have mountains of fears and we do not have very much joy in our lives.  We no longer know how to laugh at ourselves.  We do not know how to laugh with each other.  The mass media is busy telling us that we should do this, or we should do that.  We no…..

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Exodus 34:1-18 Judeo people and Christian people are not like other religions, but have a way of life lived in a relationship with a living God.  All other religions worship someone that has died or some object that has no life in it.  In our relationship with the living God, He remains active in His relationship with us.  In other religions, the activity is on our part, but we will not receive anything back from the so-called god being worshipped……

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II Corinthians 5:1-10 As human beings, all of us are carriers of God’s DNA.  All humans have some kind of god.  As you study the human civilization, you will see that the human family knows that we need a god to worship.  One can fill pages of a book with gods that human beings have selected to worship:  a rock, a rock pile, a cow, a dung beetle, the sun, the moon, a star, an animal of some kind, some…..

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Acts 10:34-48 In life, we have moments when we wish we could just freeze the time, such as a beautiful winter sunset. But time never stands still, and every second counts. In the 1946 World Series, the St. Louis Cardinals played the Boston Red Sox.  The Series lasted seven games with the score tied late in the game with three runs for each team.  Enos Slaughter got on first base for the Cardinals, and I believe that Harry Walker had…..

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Acts 14:8-20 Where can we turn for evidence that faith in God is the power that changes the kind of life we live, the kind of community we have and the kind of church to which we belong?  In the early days of the church, God called leaders like Paul and Barnabas.  Paul and Barnabas had come under the influence of the cross and Jesus Christ.  It was the cross of Jesus that, in faith, Paul and Barnabas became persons…..

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Acts 8:26-40 In the 1950’s a new entertainer appeared on the scene.  His name was Elvis Presley.  He had a great voice and he was good looking.  I bought his Christmas album in 1957 for my girlfriend (and now wife of almost 62 years).  The album contained great photos of Elvis when he was filming the motion picture “Jailhouse Rock.”  On this Christmas album he also put some hymns that he had sung in church:  “I Believe,” “Take my Hand,”…..

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Genesis 27:1-40 To be trusted is one of the most important things we have in life.  Being trustworthy means that our spoken word carries great weight in other people’s decisions.  Being trustworthy means we can be counted on to do what we say we will do.  Being trustworthy means we will deal with the financial matters of life in a safe and secure way. The summer I was seventeen, I went to work in a textile mill.  Another young man…..

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Acts 9:22-23     There is a bluebird house in front of my study window.  Almost every year, we have had a pair of bluebirds to choose this house to raise their young.  In late winter, they start looking and visiting the birdhouse, but it takes some time for them to decide that this will be their home.  Then they start to bring in the nesting materials, and sometimes they even take out material that they don’t want in the…..

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Matthew 8:5-13 Most of us try to take authority for ourselves at a very early age.  When one of our granddaughters was just three years old, she was riding with us. When she got out of the car in the parking lot, her grandmother said to her, “Let me hold your hand.”  She said back to her grandmother, “My hold my own hand.”   She put her hands together and walked beside her grandmother.  She had taken on the authority…..

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John 16:16-33 We have many things that are recorded In our book of life.  We write a page each day in the book.  Some of the books of life are very short with few pages.  Other books of life are long and filled with many pages.  The common thing about our book of life is that we all begin with birth and we all will have an obituary dating our death.  Even a long life on this earth is but…..

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