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King Of Kings

Recently the body of Ethiopia's King Haile Selassie was reburied. He had claimed to be descended from King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. He was revered as a god by the Rastafarian sect. During his l...

Church

They have found a previously undiscovered royal tomb in Egypt. It is from the era of the famed King Tut. The inscription says that the tomb was created for The Woman Who Nourished the Body of God. Sin...

Illustration: Jesus the Door

Jesus is the word, light, life, way, doorway......

Quality and Excellence

Chuck Swindoll says, "Several years ago a man told me that his first contact with a Christian was so offensive he "never wanted to hear about Jesus again." He said the person who witnessed to him had ...

Excuses

Before you make too many excuses based on your having gotten a poor start in life consider the study made by Victor and Mildred Goertzel. They studied the backgrounds of hundreds of highly successful ...

The Three Voices of God

How can we hear from God? And what if the counsel we're getting seems to contradict?...

Kingdom

Every year Queen Elizabeth II addresses the British Parliament. She must follow a long-standing custom. She must go first to the House of Commons. She knocks on the door. It is opened and then shut in...

Church

They have found a previously undiscovered royal tomb in Egypt. It is from the era of the famed King Tut. The inscription says that the tomb was created forThe Woman Who Nourished the Body of God. ...

The King Is Coming

When his son Leka was three years old his father, King Zog of Albania, fled before the advancing Italian army. That was in 1939. After his father died Leka regarded himself as the rightful king of Alb...

Illustration: Worship Christ, the Only Proper Object of Our Affection

We are geared to worship someone or something; make sure the Object of your affection is the One who is worthy of such devotion....

Stewardship

Sigmund Freud's favorite story was about the sailor shipwrecked on one of the South Sea islands. He was seized by the natives, hoisted to their shoulders, carried to the village, and set on a rude thr...

Illustration: Holy Spirit, Security

David Jeremiah wrote: "It would be nice to be told, when we leave on a long car trip, something like this: 'I want you to know that you are going to reach your destination safely and on schedule. Rega...

Does God Really Talk to People?

In this week's sermon, you'll discover how to know God's voice when He speaks to us....

Evangelism

Through the courtesy of MovieMinistry.com, we'll be frequently sharing illustrations from films. Here's one from the new movie, Secondhand Lions. The Big Idea: You can't reach out to people you don't...

Bible and Bible Reference Survey 2007

Each year brings a continuing flow of various study bibles and this one has been no different. Some such Bibles seem merely to be the result of marketing efforts, but others are truly helpful....

What Is the Apostles' Creed?

Jared C. Wilson

The creed, attributed to the earliest missionary followers of Jesus, distills the basic outline of what it means to be a Christian into a short summation that belies the depth and richness of what it ...

The Apostles’ Creed, Part Two: God the Father Almighty

Jared C. Wilson

“We believe” the creed has us say, and this belief begins where the gospel story and our worship ought to begin, with the one who has no beginning (or end): God himself. ...

The Year's Best Books for Preachers

The demise of the book has been predicted for years now – its doom supposedly inevitable after the advent of the digital age. Well, someone forgot to tell the reading public in general, and prea...