GOSPEL PREACHING:
Churches of Christ put great emphasis upon gospel preaching as the God-given means and message of salvation. God made man in His image as an intelligent being and words are the means of communication between intelligent beings. God communicates His love and will for man through the medium of words which men can understand. God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto… |
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Savor The Pain
I was once watching a romantic comedy (the name escapes me, surprisingly) with
my beautiful bride, when one of the characters said something that woke me up,
that is, caught my attention. Our hero (whose name I don’t remember) had just
failed miserably in his scheme to win the girl of his dreams (whom I also don’t
remember, although I think she was a brunette). While drowning his sorrows, a
friend tells him to: “Savor the pain.”
Savor the pain!? Why on earth would he want to do that? Pain hurts. Pain is
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AFRAID
(By Louis Cook)Why are you afraid? Jesus asked His disciples in Mk 4:40, and then He answered the question why do you have so little faith? Did they not realize who Jesus was, sleeping in the same boat?
We are often afraid [fearful] of many things in our lives, and like the disciples, we are afraid of death [(Matthew 8:25) And they came to Him and woke Him, saying, "Save us, Lord; we are perishing!" (NAS95)
There is a long…
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"FEEL GOOD" PREACHING
(Larry Ray Hafley)Our heavenly Father is "the God of all comfort" (2 Cor. 1:3). At times, God instructed his prophets to "speak comfortably" to his people (Isa. 40:1, 2). Indeed, we must take the word of God and "comfort one another" (1 Thess. 4:18). When one is fainthearted, he needs words of encouragement (1 Thess. 5:14). When one is bowed down with sorrow and shame for sin, we must comfort him with love and forgiveness (2 Cor. 2:7, 8).
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Why Does He Keep Saying “Yes” ?
Genesis 1, 3, 9
Go and be fruitful and multiply and have dominion over all the earth. The
encouragement and blessing, wrapping a blanket of abundance around His
beloved images, gifted as a promise, two times. First to the man and woman in
the garden and then to the only eight left, after the desperately needed water
cleansing of God’s creation. As Adam and Eve consume the fruit that promises to
give them something they already had in incomparable abundance, as Ham
disgraces his father so profoundly that the details are left mostly unsaid,…
