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How to Know For Sure…
February 16, 2016 Posted By: smc Salvation No comments yetDoes any of this sound familiar to you? The Christian traditions that I was raised in taught that is was presumption to say that I know for sure that I am going to be in heaven after I die…and that makes sense if you base your salvation on your manner of life and good works. […]
A Reason To Wonder
August 13, 2022 Posted By: smc Christian Living No comments yetThere are many things in life that give us a cause for wonder. Generally it is when we witness something so beautiful and/or majestic that it calls upon our hearts to wonder how it came to be. God often gives us opportunity to fill our minds with such musings; Sometimes it is through a beautiful […]
What Do You See?
August 6, 2022 Posted By: smc Salvation Bartimeaus 2How do you teach woodworking to a blind man? That was the question that confronted me several years ago as a Peace Corps Volunteer. I was assigned to work in a school for the blind as crafts instructor with the goal of diversifying products to be sold in the local market. The young men were […]
Losing my Religion.
July 30, 2022 Posted By: smc Christian Living Faith 2No more performing out of fearTrying to keep my conscience clearIt all seems so insincereI’d trade it all to meet You here [Chorus 1] I’m losing my religionI’m losing my religion I’m losing my religion, and finding something newI need something different, and different looks like YouI’m losing my religion, and finding something new‘Cause I […]
‘Peter Pan’ Faith
July 23, 2022 Posted By: smc Christian Living Faith No comments yet“When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.” 1 Corinthians 13:11 KJV This post is an appeal to pray that the Body of Christ on the earth may receive grace to resist […]
How to Glorify God
July 16, 2022 Posted By: smc Christian Living church No comments yetGlorifying God “Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, to Him [be] glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.” Ephesians 3:20-21 NKJV What does it mean to glorify God? Why […]
The Devil’s Basketball
July 9, 2022 Posted By: smc Salvation basketball No comments yet“Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.” Ezekiel 28:15 KJV My wife, Lisa, gave a brilliant illustration to her grandson, Zane, using the game of basketball that he loves as a way to explain God’s plan of salvation. She described the necessity of […]
How To Insult a Cat
July 2, 2022 Posted By: smc Salvation cat lovers 1“As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumbling stone and rock of offense: and whosoever believes on him shall not be ashamed.” Romans 9:33 (KJV) Cats are odd creatures for a number of reasons. This is especially true of ‘outdoor cats’. One of the oddities of outdoors cats is how they love […]
Has the Church Lost Her Way? Part 5b
June 25, 2022 Posted By: smc Christian Living church No comments yetWise Investing A news report in 2013 related the story of a person who bought a unique white bowl at a garage sale for $3 U.S. As it turns out it was a very rare piece of 1000 year old Chinese pottery. So rare in fact that there was only one other piece like it […]
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23 - The Coming Kingdom - The Church is Not the Kingdom
https://youtu.be/8IyXaqgG9VQ Have you ever wanted to get a better grasp of the entirety of the Bible? Are you confused about the difference between the role of the church and the…
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22 -The Coming Kingdom - The Purpose of the Church
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21-The Coming Kingdom: Parables of The Dragnet and the Householder
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