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Short-Wicked Firecrackers

Have you ever lit a firecracker with a really short wick? I remember being a kid and somehow gaining access to fireworks (usually just the small stuff, either firecrackers or bottle rockets, with an occasional Roman candle). My cousins and I were essentially menaces when we were young. Being equipped with explosives, even small ones,

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Part 35 – The Deceitfulness of Sin

OUTLINE: The Deceitfulness of SinDon’t get caught up in the natural senses… we’ve been called to a supernatural life and understanding. Don’t become ensnared by one of the oldest traps of all…“carnal reasoning”. Be Like a Wise Birdie – blogWhy would we ever esteem the simple-minded? Furthermore, why would we ever entertain reasoning with someone who speaks of fantasy

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Be Like a Wise Birdie

Steve Jobs, Oprah Winfrey, John Lennon, Mark Zuckerberg, Katharine Hepburn, Neil deGrasse Tyson: all of these people have denounced our Father in Heaven (Jesus said, “If you knew Me, you would know My Father also” – John 8:19b), and yet they are heralded as among society’s elect. Let that settle in and do not be dismissive. Step back

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Enmity Imagined

“The only God whom the natural man is not at enmity with is one of his own imagination.” — A. W. Pink, The Total Depravity of Man What is enmity? I mean, really. I wonder how many so-called “Christians” even understand what the Bible means when it uses the word enmity. I submit that, like so many other

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Mommy, I Threw Up

“Mommy, I threw up,” said the little girl from the bathroom. Sally heard her daughter from the kitchen. It was getting close to the time her siblings and their budding families were scheduled to arrive so she hadn’t been paying much attention to her daughter’s snacking. Pressure was mounting. “I told you not to eat

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Walking On Thin Ice

Arguably, the most practical use of science is its establishment of predictability. How awful would life be if every day the laws of physics changed? Thanks be to the Lord, “[The Son of God] upholds all things by the word of His power” (Hebrews 1:3b). The more we discover about science, even for ourselves, the surer we

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