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Sunday is a comin’! (by S.M. Lockridge)

When Queen Eleanor sucked the poison from her husband’s wounds, at the risk of her own life, I can see reasons why she should do it. I say not that she was bound to do it, but I do say that the relationship of a wife accounts for what she did. But Jesus Christ, the Son of God, had no relationship to…

We have heard of some who on the battlefield have been seeking for the dead; they have turned their faces up and looked at them, but did not know them. But the tender wife has come, and there was some deep wound, some saber cut that her husband had received upon his breast, and she said “It is he; I…

Do you think that He who is willing to die is unwilling to apply the results of His passion? A man leaps into the water to bring out a drowning child. After he has brought the child alive on shore, if he happens to have a piece of bread in his pocket and the child needs it, do you think that he who rescued…

There is a famous picture that represents our Lord before Pilate. It has deservedly won great attention. A certain excellent newspaper, which brings out for a very cheap price a large number of engravings, has given an engraving of this picture; but, inasmuch as the painting was too large for the paper…

It was said of the Persians that, whenever they went to battle, you could hear the sticks of the captains who were beating the soldiers to make them fight, but they won no victories. Look, on the other hand, at the brave Spartan. He was glad at the very thought of fighting; he lived in it. He was a born…

If you had a very favorite knife, which you prized much, but someone took it and with it murdered your mother, you would loathe the instrument with which so foul a deed was done. And sin, which you prized and played with, has the blood of Christ on it. It cut Him to the very soul. So now you hate it.…

He who is dead is free from the law. Take a man who has been guilty of a capital offense: he is condemned to be hanged, he is hanged by the neck until he is dead—what more has the law to do with him? It has done with him, for it has executed its sentence upon him. If he can be brought back to life again…

I remember reading, in Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, the story of a man of God who was bound to a stake to die for Christ. There he was, calm and quiet, till his legs had been burned away, and the bystanders looked to see his helpless body drop from the chains. He was black as coal, and not a feature could…

John Bunyan speaks of the law as coming to sweep a chamber like a maid with a broom. When she began to sweep there was a great dust that almost choked people and got into their eyes. But then came the gospel with its drops of water and laid the dust, and then the broom might be used far better. Now it…

You may have seen a deep mountain lake that has been filled to the brim by innumerable streamlets from all the hillsides round about. Here comes a torrent gushing down, and there trickles from the moss that has overgrown the rock a little drip, drip, drip, which falls perpetually. Great and small tributaries…

2020 Good Friday worship service

On October 13, 2012 Los Angeles experienced a once in a lifetime opportunity. It was the space shuttle Endeavor transported southbound on Crenshaw Blvd and then eastbound on Martin Luther King Blvd. The crowds were enormous and people came from miles around. Many slept in their cars overnight to experience…

James Harrison, a 77-year-old Australian has the blood that saved the lives of 2.4 million new born babies. His blood contains a rare antibody capable of curing Rhesus disease, a severe form of anemia affecting babies whose blood type is incompatible with that of their mother. He has donated blood over…

“Do the crime and pay someone else do the time” was the Headline in Sydney’s newspapers. In May 2009, a wealthy 20-year-old was drag-racing through the city streets of Hangzhou, China, when his Mitsubishi struck and killed a pedestrian at a crossing. This crime can be the death penalty for some. When…

The New Life Assembly of God church adopted a new vision statement in 2003. The church decided “To make the Janesville area Christ conscious.” Ten years later, the church is building a sixty foot cross on their property to give life to the vision. The cross weighs about 25,000 pounds, and will be lit…

A Welsh pastor plans to carry a 12-foot wooden cross across Wales in four weeks. Clive Cornish has set a goal of completed the walk within 4 weeks. Cornish plans to use the walk to pray for his home country and share his faith with the people he meets along the way. He did the same thing ten years ago,…

During the opening chapters of The Hunger Games, it is time for the reaping of District 12, the selection of a male and a female to fight tributes from the eleven other districts for the amusement of the Capitol. Given the poverty of District 12, the selection almost guarantees death. Katniss Everdeen…

A new study from the Barna organization indicates that as American society becomes more religiously diverse; there is more confusion over what the Easter holiday is all about. When asked what Easter meant to them personally, a majority of Americans said they believed there is a spiritual connection to…

The universe is full of asteroids and comet debris that bombards the planets. The giant planet Jupiter with its gravitational pull acts as a vacuum sucking these potential threats from space. Experts believe that an asteroid crashes into Jupiter as often as once a week. That space cleaning effort is…

A maximum security penitentiary in Louisiana has allowed the inmates to produce and perform a passion play called The Life of Jesus Christ. It has changed the atmosphere of the prison, once known as “America’s bloodiest prison.” Inmates are discovering the gospel message in the Life of Christ. This is…

Sgt. Dennis Weichel was herding a group of Afghan children off the road out of the way of a military convoy when one boy darted back into the road. Weichel, a Rhode Island National Guardsman, pushed the boy out of the way before the vehicle struck him. Instead, it hit Sgt. Weichel who died from his injuries.…

Gethsemane And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground. (Luke 22:44 ) The other gospel writers don't mention the physical effects of Jesus' night in the Garden, that He had "great drops of blood" fall from his brow to the…