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By Pastor Glenn Pease The mayor of a small city, who was up for reelection, was making his usual lavish promises to a group of voters. Because of his poor record he planted members of his organization in the audience to applaud. The effect was spoiled, however, by a shabby looking man in the front row…

By Pastor Glenn Pease A new bride was showing a visiting friend her first garden she had ever planted. The friend notice several small green clusters at one end of the garden and asked what they were. The bride said proudly, "They are radishes." "Really," said the visitor, "most people plant them in…

By Pastor Glenn Pease There is no subject on which the human mind can focus that is more significant, more important, and more vital than the subject of God. In the Great Books Of The Western World almost every great author that has influenced the Western World in any realm of knowledge has had something…

By Pastor Glenn Pease Many years ago the U. S. Army wanted to get off more rounds of cannon fire, and so they hired a consultant to study the problem. He went into the field and noticed that the soldiers stepped back from the cannon and waited for about 3 seconds every time they fired it. When asked…

By Pastor Glenn Pease For some unknown reason a sculptor hacked an 18 foot high piece of marble into an awkward shape, and then left it unfinished to lay in a Cathedral courtyard in Florence, Italy. For about a hundred years it laid there until Sept. of 1501. The damaged block had been offered to other…

By Pastor Glenn Pease Storms had ravaged the ships; the Pinta had lost her rudder; the food was getting wormy, and the crew was threatening mutiny. Conditions could hardly have been worse, for there was darkness, danger, hunger, panic, and exhaustion. All of these stared them in the face, and yet the…

By Glenn Pease Jean Baptiste Lamarch, the distinguished French naturalist, came from a military family and, at the age of 17 and in keeping with his family's tradition, enlisted in the army. At 21, however, his health failed and he went to Paris for a year of treatment. It was the bleakest time he had…

By Pastor Glenn Pease God expects us to do the impossible. He expected Luther H. Bridgers to play the role of Job and keep on singing. He was a young pastor who was away in another city for a series of meetings. The phone rang late one night and a friend had to tell him of the tragic news. Fire had swept…

By Pastor Glenn Pease Tolstoy wrote a story called "Where Love Is, God Is." It is about an old cobbler named Martin who lived alone. One night as he read the story of Jesus visiting the Pharisee, and the poor welcome he received, he prayed that the Lord would visit him. In his sleep he heard a voice…

Worship: Are You Connected? Scripture Reading: Ezekiel 37:1-10 (the valley of dry bones) Introduction: We talked about our individual freedoms in Christ in chapters 8-10 of 1Cor. Paul affirmed our freedom but exhorted us to use our freedoms responsibly and even sacrificially, in order to keep unity in…

Illustration: The Existence of God Romans 1:20; Time, the universe Look at your watch. See it ticking. What does it do? It measures time...one second after another in a relentless procession. How long has time been going on? Forever? What would infinite time be like? How much time would elapse from one…

How to Get Elected (Ephesians 1:4-6) Introduction When I was a little boy, my friends and I built a clubhouse. You should have seen it – or maybe it was better that you didn’t see it. There was a small lumber yard not far from our home in Hutchinson, Kansas, and when they had small pieces of scrap wood…