Others, Phil 2:4

The best way to keep going when you’re ready to quit is to follow the instruction of Paul in Phil 2:4.  “Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others”.  When you look on the things of others, you get your mind...

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Why People Hate God, Rom 1:30

Rom 1:30 says that some people are “haters of God.”  Why do they hate God?  They hate God because they love and serve something else.  Matt 6:24 says that no man can serve two masters.  He will hate the one and love the other. That’s how it goes.  So, if...

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God’s Love, 1 Jn 4:8

God is love.  There are certainly many characteristics of God.  God’s love is one of the principal ones.  God’s Love Is: Perfect Love In Matt 5:43-48 God even loves his enemies.  There is a time for judgment, of course.  But look how he has given everything to his enemies.  In...

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Good Signs of His Coming, 1 Thes 1:9-10

Shortly after news of the coronavirus first broke in the United States, Christians started asking, “Do you think this is a sign of the end times?”  And so I preached the message that compared the coronavirus with Biblical pestilences because I didn’t believe that this was a Biblical pestilence.  ...

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Pastor Rick Sowell – What Manner of Love

Pastor Rick Sowell preached on love from 1 Jn 3:1 and several other passages in 1 John.  Love is the great need in marriage relationships, family relationships, and church relationships.  The manner of love in these relationships should be the love of Jesus Christ.  Perfect love is in Jesus.  Below...

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Keep Thy Heart Prov 4:23

Keep Thy Heart Prov. 4: 23 CLICK TITLE FOR AUDIO Solomon said, “Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.”  An issue is “something coming forth from a specified source,” (Merriam Webster Dictionary).  So, the heart is the source of things concerning life.  To...

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