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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....

To Be Seen of Men

Jesus said, "Be careful not to do your ‘acts of righteousness’ before men, to be seen of them. If you do you, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven."...

The Three Voices of God

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

Salvation Through Christ

A blind man once stood on a corner at a busy intersection reading aloud Acts 4 from a portion of a Braille Bible. A gentleman on his way home stopped at the edge of the crowd that had gathered to list...

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...

Pornography, Culture

In a recent column, Chuck Colson talked about the prisoner abuse scandal in Iraq and how it could have happened: "As I've tried to figure out how this travesty occurred, I've considered my own experie...

To Illustrate: Ressurection

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

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. ...

Children & Media

Christian media expert Ted Baehr says that by age 17, the average child has spent between 40,000 and 63,000 hours watching television and movies and playing video games. Parents, he says, need to be i...

Illustration: Motivation

What kind of legacy are you leaving?...

Christian

At the first exhibition of modern art a critic said negatively, "These are nothing but impressions." The criticism became, unintentionally, the definitive description of one kind of art, and today imp...

Scripture

For a long time the center of Christianity in Europe was not Rome but Constantinople. In the Imperial Palace they placed a throne; a throne on which no one ever sat. On that empty throne they put a co...

Worship

Humans tend to worship what is seen and often what appeals to emotion. The golden calf represented an Egyptian fertility cult. Recall that while the people were in the wilderness God alone provided al...

Illustration: Service

You were put on this earth for a purpose. Find out what is and do it while you're here....

To Illustrate

AGE There is a birthday card making the rounds that says, “You know what they say about age — it’s all in your mind.” Inside the card it adds, “and your legs, your arms, your neck, your arches, your b...

Illustration: Witness in an Unlikely Place

Dare to hope in Jesus the Christ as one widow of a Soviet ruler......

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'...

Promises Concerning Afflictions

Stepping Stones Years ago a small group of Japanese believers were hackled and abused whenever they assembled to worship the Savior. But the persecutors could not shake the faith of the new converts. ...