In Matthew 12:36, we read “And I say unto you, that every idle word that man shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the Day of Judgment.” That was Jesus speaking. If I am to give an account for anything in the Day of Judgment, I ought to be aware of that, oughtn’t I? [...]
Posted on December 18th, 2009 by doc
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Don’t we all? Of course, there are jokes Christians would not repeat, aren’t there? There are crude jokes that we don’t even want to hear! And certain jokes are hurtful to some. We want to avoid those, also. But Matthew mentions “idle words (Matthew 12:36),” and Paul told the Ephesians to avoid “foolish talk (Ephesians [...]
Posted on September 30th, 2009 by doc
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Matthew 6:1-4
Take heed that you do not your righteousness before men, to be seen of them; else ye have no reward with your Father Who is in Heaven. When therefore thou doest alms, sound not a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogue and in the streets, that they may have the [...]
Posted on September 25th, 2009 by doc
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Today, we don’t seem to like people who give commands. Suggestions are all right, but don’t tell me what to do. Right? Well, it seems to me that Jesus offered very few suggestions, and gave quite a few commands. In fact, I would seriously take anything the Master said as a command. So when I [...]
Posted on August 28th, 2009 by doc
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When Jesus instituted the Lord’s Supper, He commanded the use of “wine” and “unleavened” bread. We have no problem with the “unleavened” bread, do we? We all acknowledge that that is simply bread that has no yeast or any other agent which causes it to rise, such as baking soda or baking powder. But what [...]
Posted on August 8th, 2009 by doc
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38Then Saul dressed David in his own tunic. He put a coat of armor on him and a bronze helmet on his head. 39David fastened on his sword over the tunic and tried walking around, because he was not used to them. “I cannot go in these,” he said to Saul, “because I am not [...]
Posted on July 30th, 2009 by Bob Mathews
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You don’t have to search very far to find some “doom & gloomer” tell you the church is dying. You also don’t have to go very far to see a church in which many of its young people “give their lives to Christ”, then a year or two after they leave home, most of those [...]
Posted on July 14th, 2009 by Bob Mathews
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You’ve been looking forward to this for the last 5 days. Now it’s Saturday and you’re settling down with that book you’ve been meaning to read. Just when you kick your shoes off and get comfortable, you hear a knock at the door. Sorta sounded like the way the FedEx lady knocks when she has [...]
Posted on June 25th, 2009 by Bob Mathews
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Although they totally take Jefferson out of context, our government seems dedicated to “separation of church and state.” And maybe that’s a good thing, in some respects. However, if that is really their intent, I have to question some recent activity of the government.
The First Amendment to the Constitution, in the Bill of Rights, according [...]
Posted on June 18th, 2009 by doc
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There’s a fairly recent song by Steven Curtis Chapman that describes some of the ways he shows his faith — he’s got a T-shirt, a bracelet with letters on it, a necklace & key chain, Bible magnets on his refrigerator, a “bless you” welcome mat, a Jesus bumper sticker, and the outline of a fish [...]
Posted on March 3rd, 2009 by Bob Mathews
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