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  • 2 Corinthians 1

    But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you in heaviness.  For if I make you sorry, who is he then that maketh me glad, but the same which…

  • 1 Corinthians 15

    Paul has heard that some of the people in the Corinthian church have been saying that there is no such thing as the resurrection of the dead. This opinion has popped up in history…

  • 1 Samuel 23

    16 And Jonathan Saul’s son arose, and went to David into the wood, and strengthened his hand in God. The Refreshment of a Friend As Saul was seeking David’s life and David was living as…

  • Exodus 23

    2 Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment: Don’t follow a mob to do wrong. Don’t twist the…

  • 1 Corinthians 9

    I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some. This passage is frequented by many to teach the rights of a pastor to receive financial benefit from…

  • Imprisoned By Sin in the Mind (Mark 5)

    Imprisoned By Sin in the Mind (Mark 5)

    The man possessed by Legion seems to be in my eyes a special case.  Here is a man that no chain could bind and no man could tame.  His life was wandering the tombs…

  • Mark 12

    Mark 12

    43 And he called unto him his disciples, and saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, That this poor widow hath cast more in, than all they which have cast into the treasury: 44 for all they did cast in…

  • Jeremiah 18

    Jeremiah 18

    Everyone needs a good visual illustration from time to time.  Here is a potter who takes something he made, found a blemish in it, and just decides to make into something else that’s useful. …

  • 1 Samuel 2

    29 Wherefore kick ye at my sacrifice and at mine offering, which I have commanded in my habitation; and honourest thy sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the chiefest of all the offerings…