The greatest curse of man is not war, crime, disease, or death. The greatest curse of man is sin. It is from sin that all of these other vices flow. Our text tonight speaks of the forgiveness of sin.
Some time ago, I was reading that great American philosopher Erma Bombeck, and she was telling about a time when she attended church not long ago. She noticed a little boy who was just grinning at everybody. He wasn’t scuffling around. He wasn’t kicking the pew. He was just smiling at everybody.
An elderly man and woman were sitting on their porch one hot summer evening. She said to him, “Do you know what I would like?” He said, “No, what would you like?” She said, “I would like to have some vanilla ice cream with some chocolate topping.” He said, “Well, I will just go get yo...
In 1989 Bobby McFerrin won Grammy Awards for Song of the Year and Record of the Year for a song he recorded called, “Don’t Worry, Be Happy.” Twenty-seven times in two minutes he says, “Don’t worry, be happy.” I think you would immediately recognize that is a bit Pollyannaish, or not very re...
Sometime ago Salman Rushdie, a British author from India, wrote a book, The Satanic Verses. The book created quite a stir. It infuriated Muslims the world over and the ayatollah of Iran said that the book so insulted Mohammad and Islamic people around the world that the author of this book deserved to die.
This is in Luke 6 a simple statement about the life and ministry of Jesus, so commonplace that you might be reading the gospel of Luke and pass right over that statement about Jesus in prayer.
In 1956 Dawson Trotman, founder of the Navigators, interviewed 100 missionary candidates for one of our evangelical mission boards. He asked each one of them this question: “Do you have a systematic devotional life?”
A devotional life is a time when you meet God for prayer and Bible study on a daily basis....
This is our 23rd anniversary and I’m a very emotional person. I get excited at almost any anniversary that I’m involved in. When we have another anniversary, there are a lot of people who are amazed that I made it another year.
Disciple is the Holy Spirit’s favorite word to describe the followers of Christ. In the gospels and in the book of Acts, it is used about 270 times to describe believers. Technically, the word disciple means “a student or a learner.” It describes a person who submits to the i...