So if God was giving out spiritual report cards, how do you think you would make out? What criteria do you think God would use? As mentioned before, these seven letters in Revelation 2 nd 3 are spiritual report cards to the 7 seven churches and sadly, several need remediation. None of them, however, need…
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An Encouragement to Faithfulness
I remember about 10 years ago I was helping to load a full length flatbed trailer with haybales. I was on the ground with two of my boys while the farmer was on the truck. I hadn't worked that hard physically in quite a while and by the time we were on the top layer,…
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The Dead Church
Annual doctor visits are recommended because there are a variety of cancers and medical conditions that can be successfully treated if they are caught it time. Unfortunately, many people walk around with serious health conditions, such as blocked arteries and dangerously high blood pressure, and they don’t even know it. They need an outside source,…
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Walking on Thin Ice
Not every message is encouraging or inspirational. Sometimes bad news needs to be delivered, hard things need to be said. So it is with the letter to the Church in Thyatira. They may have thought because of all their good works and their busyness for God that everything was good, but it was not. In…
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Do You Know?
Do you know what book of the Bible you would find the 10 Commandments in? Do you know why there is a book called Numbers or what Leviticus is about? Do you know where God first talks about marriage? Do you know who God used to pen the first 5 books of the Bible and…
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