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Let’s remember the big picture. You and I and all of mankind have been made in the image and likeness of God, and we have been created to live our lives for the glory of God. Satan, on the other hand, hates God and all of His creation, and his purpose is to undermine God’s glory… Satan wants us to follow in his steps, which means he wants us to live our lives for our own glory.
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Our text today is going to show us the battle is heating up… the tension between Jesus and the religious leaders is mounting. We will also see that it is impossible (not just difficult, but impossible) for anyone to remain neutral in the spiritual battle that continues to unfold before our very eyes. I want to introduce our text today by a verse from Acts:
Acts 10:38 – How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.
Jesus went about doing good. Now if someone’s life can been characterized by going about and doing good, wouldn’t you like to think that he might get nominated for the “Citizen of the Year” award? Surely that’s not too unreasonable, is it? Read the rest of this entry »
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If you listen to the world today, you will hear lip service given to the importance of Mother’s Day, but I think I can prove the world is a big hypocrite… the world is speaking out of both sides of its mouth. On the one hand the world wants us to honor and esteem mothers, but what they won’t tell you is this… only a certain kind of mother is to be honored and esteemed. A mother who is a stay-at-home Mom (a home-maker) is an embarrassment, a repressed woman, a woman who needs to come out of the dark ages. The world is saying that this kind of mother (a homemaker) gives women a bad name. God, however, says a homemaker is an exalted position. Read the rest of this entry »
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Last week there was an article in the news that caught my eye. In case you didn’t see it, let me read part of it to you:
An incredible 95 percent complete fossil of a 47-million-year-old human ancestor dubbed Ida has been discovered and, after two years of secret study, an international team of scientists has revealed it to the world. The fossil’s remarkable state of preservation allows an unprecedented glimpse into early human evolution. Discovered in Messel Pit, Germany, it represents the moment before anthropoid primates–the group that would later evolve into humans, apes and monkeys–began to split from lemurs and other prosimian primates.
Do you know what this is? This is faith masquerading as science. What is the definition of science? My Funk and Wagnalls dictionary defines science this way, “knowledge of facts, phenomena, laws, and proximate causes, gained and verified by repeatable exact observation.” Read the rest of this entry »
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A messenger at a photo lab was leaving a building one day when his beeper went off. The message instructed him to pick up a package at an unfamiliar company with a 12-syllable, tongue-twisting name. The messenger looked skyward and sighed, “God, where am I supposed to go?” Just then the pager came on again, this time with the client’s address.
A man nearby witnessed this scene. Raising his arms to the heavens, he cried, “Why don’t You ever answer me?” (Reader’s Digest, 4/91).
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