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Hypocrites explained by Tony Evans

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

Singing in Church About those Church HymnsA minister decided to do something a little different one Sunday morning.He said "Today, in church, I am going to say a single word and you are going to help me preach.Whatever single word I say, I want you to sing whatever hymn that comes to your mind." The…

A man fell into a pit and couldn’t get himself out. A SUBJECTIVE person came along and said: "I FEEL for you, down there." An OBJECTIVE person came along and said:” It’s logical that someone would fall, down there." A CHRISTIAN SCIENTIST came along: "You only THINK that you are in a pit." A PHARISEE…

When my mum married my father… she forsook her parents’ name. Her new name reflected her changed status, priorities, life. That ceremony was a turning point for her – Everything changed. She got a new Identity. In fact, can you imagine if her lifestyle hadn’t changed after that? If she’d carried on living…

DON'T LEAVE IT ON THE DESK There was a certain Professor of Religion named Dr. Christensen, a studious man who taught at a small college in the western United States . Dr. Christensen taught the required survey course in Christianity at this particular institution. Every student was required to take…

Oct 19 2008 Bothwell Message: “A Tax ‘Trap' for Jesus…And?” Matthew 22:15-22 Last Week’s Election Turnout This past Wednesday an article appeared in The Niagara Falls Review by Corey Larocque. It was titled: Voter turnout part of worldwide slide, Brock professor says - Citizens in democracies taking…

Life is not fair. Yesterday (September 20, 2008) the Toronto Argonauts used a new quarterback when they faced the Stampeders in Calgary. The Argos new head coach Don Matthews decided that Cody Pickett would get the ball, replacing starter Kerry Joseph. Joseph, the CFL's outstanding player last season,…

A Three-starnd Cord Matthew 18:15-20 A cord of three strands is not quickly broken (Ecclesiastes 4:9-12). That makes sense, doesn’t it? We have probably all at one time braided three strands of something together and then been amazed at the strength that it took to separate them. It is the principle…

Children's books with names like One Fish, Two Fish; Red Fish, Blue Fish. Screen savers on our computers that pretend to be an aquarium. Long weekends in the north woods, on silent lakes waiting for the first nibble on the line, or sea stories about "the one that got away." It seems like fish turn up…

Fun facts about Father's Day: Sonora Smart-Dodd is the "mother" of Father's Day. In 1909, as she listened to a sermon about Mother's Day, she was inspired to begin a campaign to create a celebration that would recognize and honor the work done by her father and all fathers across the U.S. President Lyndon…

She told me we couldn't afford beer anymore and then I found she had spent $65 on makeup. I asked her why I had to give up beer but she could spend money on makeup. "Why, I use the makeup to make myself look prettier for you!" Without thinking I replied: "Baby, that's what the beer is for!"

How would you describe something that no one has ever before seen? As most of you are aware, Antarctica has icebergs. If we had no television satellites, how would you describe an iceberg to an individual who had lived for his or her entire life, in say, the Caribbean? What examples would you use? "Well,…

Donald Grey, (Author of Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus) Donald writes that his Dad was a hitchhiker and was picked up but instead of getting, a ride was stuffed into a trunk and left there in the hot Texas sun. He died in the trunk. Grey had to fly down to see the care and the trunk for himself.…