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Kick to the Teeth 2 – Job 20&21

There is a website called DelayedJustice.com. “This website is intended to deal with murder, brutality, corruption and hatred—all falling under what we call acts of injustice.  We tell the stories

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Court Anxiety – Job 9

According to Law and Order Record Retrieval: Subpoenas are legal documents that summon a witness or other important party to attend a court proceeding…you will need to find an appropriate process

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Punch to the Gut 1 Continues – Job 5

Remember the cartoon Road Runner? Wikipedia’s description is, “Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner are a duo of cartoon characters from the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons.

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Heavenly Dwelling – 2 Corinthians 5:1-10

I’ve heard it said many times, but this time by the father of a 57 year old son who died unexpectedly, leaving a wife fighting cancer. He said, “I don’t know how non-Christians can handle

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The Least of These – Matthew 25:31-46

Righteous Among the Nations. That’s the designation Israel gave to Oskar Schindler, who employed and thus rescued 1,200 Jews from the death camps during the Nazi reign of terror in Europe during

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Be Faithful Over a Little – Matthew 25:1-30

It is easy to compare myself with someone who is a mover and a shaker and find myself coming up short. That may not be entirely bad, because the example of the mover and shaker might help me to accomplish

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Mourn – Matthew 24:29-25

One of the stumbling blocks of Christianity for many unbelievers is that we believe that Jesus is the only way to right relationship with God. Jesus is the only way to truth and life (John 14:6), as he

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Abomination of Desolation – Matthew 24:15-28

I know a precious believer who suffered great anxiety and fear whenever he heard a sermon about the end times and the suffering that will take place. The descriptions that Jesus gives in Matthew of the

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My Inner Cup – Matthew 23:25-28

Have you seen the new Disney film Aladdin? It only got a 57% rating from the critics on Rotten Tomatoes but a 94% audience approval. I like the message. Aladdin is a street urchin, living hand to mouth,

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Workarounds – Matthew 23:16-24

I like this Wikipedia explanation of a workaround: “A workaround is a bypass of a recognized problem or limitation in a system. A workaround is typically a temporary fix that implies that a genuine

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Hardened to Truth – Matthew 23:13-15

One of my favorite Christian apologists (defenders of Christian faith) is Hugh Ross. He is a scientist who has developed a huge reservoir of scientific defenses of the Biblical teaching. He was an atheist

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Patient in Judgment – Matthew 21:28-46

One of the common objections I hear to belief in the God of Scripture is that He is such an ogre in the Old Testament. He claims to be merciful and compassionate, but He’s “always” destroying

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Tempting My Little Ones – Matthew 18:1-14

He used her for sex. His own daughter! That she came to faith in Christ is a testimony to how Jesus ministered to her in this most terrifying and tragic time in her life. The imprint of this ghastly misdeed

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Unimaginable Value – Matthew 13:36-50

The value of something is dependent on several factors: rarity, ability to get you something of worth, the “in” factor. We often attach a monetary factor to it. But as C. S. Lewis said, “All

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Clear Communication – Matthew 13:1-17

When I was growing up my parents took us to Presbyterian church every Sunday and in our church service, every Sunday, we said the Lord’s Prayer and the Apostles’ Creed. I was not a believer.

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