The Rich Man and Lazarus, Lk 16:19-31

The Rich Man and Lazarus Our text is Lk 16:19-31.  Some say this is a parable.  It is not a parable.  It is a real incident through which Jesus Christ gives us a glimpse into life beyond the grave before his own crucifixion. The rich man and Lazarus We know...

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Neither Let It Be Afraid, Jn 14:27

Neither Let It Be Afraid This is a follow up message to our broadcast from yesterday on Let not your heart be troubled.  I encourage you to listen to that message online.  In that message we discussed how to let not your heart be troubled.  Briefly, we said, Pray and...

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Let Not Your Heart Be Troubled, Jn 14:27

Let Not Your Heart Be Troubled The Lord gave his disciples peace and told them, let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. There are times when your heart is so troubled over a matter that it overwhelms your emotions and your mind.  You feel horrible and...

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Find A Way, 1 Ki 22:19-22

Find A Way When Pastor Randy King was here in September, he told many stories of people in churches who found a way to reach their community with the gospel.  Remember the lady who became a school bus driver, the teens who painted the city’s fire hydrants, and the ladies...

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Draw Near to God, Ps 73:22-28

Draw Near to God Ps. 73:22-28 CLICK TITLE FOR AUDIO In Ps 73 Asaph said, Draw near to God.  This admonition is one of the greatest in the Bible.  Sin puts a wedge between you and God.  So, drawing near to him is essential to close the gap.  Draw near to...

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Preoccupied, 2 Cor 10:5

Preoccupied II Cor. 10:5 CLICK TITLE FOR AUDIO Your mind is preoccupied when a matter or a subject dominates or engrosses your mind to the exclusion of other thoughts.  It appears that many young Christians are preoccupied these days.  You can run a little two-part self-test to see if you are...

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Bad Decisions, Jos 9:14

Bad Decisions Bad Decisions Click Title to Download Does it concern you that good men in the Bible sometimes made bad decisions?  It surely concerns me.  The concern, obviously, is that if they made bad decisions in their days, what’s to prevent us from making bad decisions in our days?  We...

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Because He First Loved Us, 1 Jn 4:19

Because He First Loved Us We are drawn to the Lord because he first loved us.  This is why we came to Jesus to be saved. 1 Jn 4:10, “Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation...

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To Present You, Col 1:21-29

To Present You In Col 1:21-29 we see the word “present” twice in the passage. In the first occurrence, Jesus reconciled you, his former enemy, “to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight”, v.22. In the second occurrence, Paul preached, “warning every man, and teaching every man...

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