To see clearly is a good thing. It’s important to know you’re taking the right exit because you’ve seen exit sign, that you’re taking the proper medication because you’ve clearly read the label, and that you’re putting toothpaste on your toothbrush – not triple-action antibiotic cream. Seeing clearly spares you the embarrassment of wearing one…
Jesus Calls Fishermen to be Fishers of MenI. With a Display of PowerII. With a Word of Grace (Luke 5:1-11)1One day as Jesus was standing by the Lake of Gennesaret,[a] the people were crowding around him and listening to the word of God. 2 He saw at the water’s edge two boats, left there by the fishermen, who…
The Bible Gives Us 1) the hope of eternal life2) endurance and encouragement for this life3) and the mindset of Christ toward each other. 4For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through the endurance taught in the Scriptures and the encouragement they provide we might have hope.…
If everyone else was going to jump off bridge, you wouldn’t, would you? Of course not. But what if you didn’t know you were jumping off a bridge? What if you were going along with what everyone else, or a big chunk of everyone, was doing or thinking which wasn’t great, but had no idea?…
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When you go to the doctor for a check-up, they check your reflexes usually by taking out a small rubber mallet and giving the tendon below your knee a lil tap-tap. When that happens, your leg, in automatic response, reflexively, kicks out in front, if the reflex is functional that is. When a bad thing…
Life Guide God Calls Us to Carry Out His Mission 1. In spite of the objections 2. With the promise of his presence 7 When the Israelites cried out to the Lord because of Midian, 8 he sent them a prophet, who said, “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: I brought you up out of Egypt, out of the…
Life Guide Today as we focus on Christian Education, we’ll consider a few thoughts from each of the texts we heard before. We’ll do so using this short outline to summarize and remember each section: Teach. Learn. Switch. First, we begin in Deuteronomy 6 with Moses’ instruction to teach. Moses gives this instruction to the…
Life Guide The 1959 Chevy Corvette is a beautiful car. The ’72 Corvette Stingray is bold yet sleekly styled, aesthetically pleasing. Then there’s the ’88 Corvette Stingray. I don’t know what happened there. Rough decade for car design in general. Then, the 2024 Corvette Stingray got things back on track and looking like a super…
Life Guide Several years ago, in Monterey, CA, a coastal city south of San Francisco, a peculiar problem arose– not with the people, but with the pelicans who resided there. Monterey is a hot fishing spot, and the fisherman used to feed the pelicans the leftovers after they were done cleaning their fish. After a…