GOVERNED BY GOD OR TYRANTS If we will not be governed by God, we must be governed by tyrants. -- William Penn
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RELIGIOUS TESTS Under the color of religious tests the utmost cruelties have been exercised. Those in power have generally considered all wisdom centered in themselves, that they alone had a right to dictate to the…
STATEMENT OF PURPOSE Grace strives to see God transform... Attenders into worshipful believers; Believers into secure disciples; Disciples into faithful servants; ...for the glory of the incomparable Jesus Christ. From Grace Baptist Church, Greeley, Colorado
RIGHT SIDE OF THE GRASS A foursome was playing a round of golf. Three of them just kept complaining about the condition of the golf course. It seemed that the fairways were too long, the…
OCCUPATION OR PREOCCUPATION "Our OCCUPATION may be to win the world for Christ, but our PREOCCUPATION should be to love our brothers in Christ".
JURY OF LAWYERS A defendant in a small county was brought before the judge. After listening to the man for several minutes, the judge could see that the man was clearly guilty. There were a…
WATCH THE ROAD Driving east on Interstate 70 toward Denver the driver is still in the mountains but can see Denver. A highway sign reminds truckers that they are not yet out of the mountains.…
VISION FOR THE MISSION Late one night after the moon, which was the tourist's guide, had gone down, he found himself lost in the mountains. There were only a very few hours left before daybreak,…
PEACEFUL WAY TO GO A group of junior high students were asked to write about what they thought about death. One student wrote the following: "When it is my time to die, I want to…
BUDGET ANALYSIS A well planned budget is the best way to know why you went broke.
SPIRITUAL WARFARE Dr. John Vaughan, a faculty member of Southwest Baptist University shares the following personal experience: During a flight in 1986 from Detroit, I had a man sitting next to me who seemed to…
TRUST or RUST We will Trust and Obey, Or we will Rust and Decay! By Michael Hodgin
THE EYES OF ELISHA Lord - what happened the day I lost the battle? What happened when I fell and it seemed I couldn't get up? Why did all of these things happen to me?…
WATCHFUL OBSERVATION You can observe a lot just by watching. -- Yogi Berra
THINGS WE DON'T NEED THE NEWS AT 4:00, 5:00, 6:00, AND 7:00 "And what do we have coming up on the news at 6:00, Bob?" "The same stuff we had at 5:00, Jack, what else?"…
FOLLOW ME All of discipleship is summed up in two words spoken by Jesus Christ: "Follow me." -- Brother Dan From TentMaker, Internet URL site:
CHURCH PLANTING MISSION In his newsletter to his constituent churches, Warren Johnson, Regional Director of the Rocky Mountain Conservative Baptist Churches, compares the planting of new churches by established churches to the birth of babies…
GOLF PRAYER The pastor was not having a good day on the golf course. He hit yet another drive into a sand trap. The pastor said to his caddie, "And I even said a prayer…
BENEFITS OF COMPUTERS Computers allow us to accomplish at great speed what we never really need to do in the first place. Computers allow us to make mistakes faster than we ever were able to…
CHURCH'S PURPOSE It is so easy to think that the Church has a lot of different objects--education, building, missions, holding services... The Church exists for nothing else but to draw men into Christ, to make…
