Grasping God’s Purpose: “The Reliability Factor” – Exodus 25:1-9 and Psalm 15
The most reliable watch, is the one that seems to keep time well. I read a clip more than ten years ago: Time technicians at the National Institute of Standards & Technology (Formerly the National Bureau of Standards) set a new level of precision in …
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The End of the World: “Signs of the Times” – Revelation 12
It was a nice afternoon that January 29, 2012, and a businessman was returning to his south Florida home after a week away. He was traveling at about seventy miles an hour. Trees were flying by on both sides of the car, and he was …
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The End of the World: “Here Come the Judge” – Revelation 11:15-18
I have a shocking confession to make that will likely set some of you back… I was never a big fan of Motown’s music. It isn’t that I disliked the IDEA of allowing young African American singers to break into a career that was dominated …
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Grasping God’s Purpose: “Unmasking the Impostor” – Exodus 24
The year was 1953. In some ways, the world was bounding in recovery from World War II. In other ways, it seemed a dangerous place. On the international stage, former Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev won a power struggle in the former Soviet Union that ensued …
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The End of the World: “The View from Afar” – Revelation 11
It was the 1970’s, and the rage in the Universities across America was educating new teachers for what was now known as a “Social Science” curriculum. New Math was showing its first graduates – and its first deficits. The so-called “Dr. Spock effect” was truly …
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A People that Please God: “An Uncommon Pattern” – 1 Corinthians 3
I saw “The Passion of the Christ” several years ago when it first came out. Like many people that I saw, both believers and non-believers, I cried when I saw the way men handled the body of my Savior! How brutal they were! How could …
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Grasping God’s Purpose: “God’s Civil Service” – Exodus 23
Thomas Jefferson said: “An informed citizenry is the only true repository of the public will.” To what information was he referring? I suggest that it was not merely a knowledge of the world news of the day… it was a knowledge of right and wrong …
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