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Stealing, Children

"Peter!" his mother scolded, "There were two cookies in the pantry this morning but now there's only one! Do you have an explanation?" Peter replied, "It must have been too dark and I didn't see the ...

Illustration: Perspective, Heaven

Two female friends die together in a car accident. As they enter heaven, Peter says, “There’s just one rule in heaven. Don’t step on the ducks.” As you can imagine, there were ducks all over heaven. W...

Contradictions

In his great painting The Blue Cloak Peter Bruegel has incorporated at least 78 proverbs, maxims, rhymes and symbols. One shows a woman carrying fire in her right hand and a bucket of water in the lef...

The Three Voices of God

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

Steps to Character

A penitent monk single-handedly carved steps in the stones leading to the top of Mt. Sinai where Moses received the Law from God. There are 1,360 steps to the pinnacle. Pilgrims still climb those step...

Fear, Realization, Success

A friend told me about being in a boat hunting Canadian Geese in the dead of winter on a freezing lake. Bone cold the three of them in a 16-foot aluminum boat hold out for a few more minutes o...

Seed

Russet potatoes are one of America's favorite varieties. They were developed by Luther Burbank in 1872. He noticed a potato plant with an unusual bud. He watched the bud until it dropped. When he open...

Resurrection

Some find it impossible to believe in the resurrection of Jesus. Christians find it impossible not to believe in the resurrection of Jesus. If the world's best Man did not survive death, if the world'...

Cross

In 1934 the city of San Francisco erected a cross, 103 feet tall and 39 feet across, on the top of Mt. Davidson in a public park. For years "Easter" services were held there. But in March of 1997 the ...

Seed

Russet potatoes are one of America's favorite varieties. They were developed by Luther Burbank in 1872. He noticed a potato plant with an unusual bud. He watched the bud until it dropped. When he open...

To Illustrate: Ressurection

Why didn’t they just lock up Jesus? That would have stopped Him from teaching, preaching and gathering followers. ...

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....

Static on the Line

This week we'll learn about how to clear the static on the line when it comes to hearing God speak. ...

Redeemed

Recently Kentucky Ancestors carried a remarkable story written by Edwin Burrows Smith. It concerns a man and wife who, in the first half of the 19th century, bought the freedom of 107 slaves! Paul and...

Humility

Moses must have seemed like an unlikely candidate for an inferiority complex. Raised in privilege as an adopted son in Pharaoh's household, he "was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and w...

If I Only Knew More

Philip Nation

Have you ever met that guy who just knew more than everyone else in the room? Or wanted to prove it? Does knowing any of this make you feel better about life and eternity? No, as Ecclesiastes shows....

Two Reasons Why Christians Gossip

Think of how many times you have believed something to be true only to find out the information was totally wrong. Vaccinate yourself with some scriptural truths about gossip....