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What do you consider your worst enemy? You may say, “Do I have to choose one?” Maybe you have many worst “enemies.” We may wake up in the morning thinking about the worst enemy we will face that day or we have faced for many years. It may come as some past failure or sin. You have dealt with it when the doctor told you had the “big C” called cancer. It may have come in dealing with a family problem. The film “Paul, Apostle of Christ” deals unflinchingly with persecution in the early church. E...
You may have gone to the movie “Overcomer.” It tells a story of a young lady in high school who came from a dysfunctional home. She went through many hardships. She gave up on life and started going down the wrong road. She lived in a broken world and lived a broken life. Finally she met some people who invested in her life and turned her around. She worked hard and won the state championship in cross country because someone believed in her. These people, also with great kindness and love, sho...
You may have gone to the movie “Overcomer.” It tells a story of a young lady in high school who came from a dysfunctional home. She went through many hardships. She gave up on life and started going down the wrong road. She lived in a broken world and lived a broken life. Finally she met some people who invested in her life and turned her around. She worked hard and won the state championship in cross country because someone believed in her. These people, also with great kindness and love, sho...
School will start in about a month. Some parents have great excitement as their children go back to school and have a chance to further their education. The cost for a child to start school and finish their high school education in public schools is around about $150,000. If they go on to college it will cost around another $200,000 or $300,000. If they add in all the time and sacrifice, they wonder if the cost of the education is worth it? Is the money well spent or did they throw their money...
The scholars can debate a mother's most glorious work and a mother does many, many important works. Sometimes a person has a hard time determining a mother's most important works because she does so many. Elisa Morgan wrote that her daughter texted her asking for Elisa's grandmother's Peppermint Ice Cream Pie. Elisa started going through her grandmother's recipes. She found it and sent it to her daughter. She then made this astute observation. "I wonder what other family heirlooms might be...
As Thanksgiving approaches we have many blessings that God has given us over the last year. We want to thank Him for all these blessing. We have a measure of health; we have hope, happiness and help from God. In fact sometimes we have seen God bless us in many miraculous ways far more than we could image. God has kept us safe going up and down the highway. In some situations if God had not intervened we would not be sitting here in church today. We have seen His love over and over again...
Christmas has arrived and are you ready for it to come? Yes, you may have you last-minute presents to buy, getting all the food for the family and sending cards. Yet in the midst of all the wonderful blessings, do you feel that you may be missing out on something? We see many expressions of love at Christmas and yes, we see lack of expressions of love. We stop and ask ourselves the hard question, “Why is everyone doing all these wonderful deeds of kindness?” In fact, they are going ove...
John Milton wrote “Paradise Lost” and “Paradise Regained.” He wrote about two of the most important days in the history of the world. We played a part in both. We know that we have lost paradise and that we long to regain it. Milton spoke the truth that we can regain paradise. It starts when we want what was taken away from us. We have suffered the works of the devil that has destroyed our lives. As you look around, you see that Satan has destroyed paradise and you long to regain it. It seems h...
Someone has said, “We are going into a serious problem, in the middle of a serious problem, or coming out of a serious problem.” We would say that is pretty correct. Sometimes we face situations that we have no control over and we don’t know how to handle them. In fact, no one knows how to handle them and many people try to help us but only make it worse. Marty Prudehomme said that the love between her and her husband had grown cold and she wanted a divorce. “He and I are very differe...
Most people want to make their lives count. Parents will spend thousands of dollars for one major reason: to make sure their children have a good plan for their lives or their lives count for time and eternity. We have a problem, though. Why do children make poor decisions when they know their parents have tried to raise them right? The answer to that question does not come easy. To make sure a child lives a life of wisdom he must have the right plan for himself and not someone else's plan. He k...
