Month: January 2015

As Much As You Can

Click here to read Acts 10 on BibleGateway.com If you have spent much time talking with non-Christians, or anyone who is questioning God, it’s surprising how often simply reading the Bible can clear up people’s questions.  Too often, people get…

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What’s It Gonna Take?

Click here to read Matthew 7 on BibleGateway.com If you have ever been a youth pastor or teacher (or even perhaps a teenager yourself at some point in the distant past), you have seen the fascinating mating rituals of the Unattractive…

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House Rules

Click here to read Acts 6 on BibleGateway.com Do you know what the best selling board game in the world is?  No, not the Farming Game, though it should be (seriously, if you haven’t played it, go buy it today).  No big…

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Who Says?

Click here to read Ezra 5 on BibleGateway.com Back in the yesteryear when you were younger, you may have come home from a hard day of sitting in a school desk pretending to listen to a teacher, when lo and behold, to what…

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Can’t We All Just Get Along

Click here to read Genesis 4 on BibleGateway.com Back in the Middle Ages, around 1960 or so, America was a deeply divided nation. Brother against brother, neighbor against neighbor, friend against friend.  There were fights on the streets, and some people look…

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Surprise

Click here to read Acts 3 on BibleGateway.com There you are, silently, trying not even to breathe.  You can hear them coming down the hall, stumbling a little with morning grogginess.  You wait…wait…wait as they draw closer and closer to your hiding…

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The Holy Shut Up

Click here to read Matthew 2 on BibleGateway.com Man is competitive by nature. You doubt? Next time you see a bunch of guys sitting around in the office, throw a piece of crumpled up paper in between two of them…

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Anticipation

Click here to read Ezra 1 on BibleGateway.com Let us sing together: it’s the most wonderful time of the year. No, not Christmas, with the greed and the family squabbling and the hand-knitted sweaters and the fruitcake. Be honest; do…

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