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Welcome to ChristCentral Sunday Morning Worship, for July 09, 2023. Visiting speaker & pastor, Dr. Paul Stohler, from the SBC (Southern Baptist of Texas), delivers a sermon titled "The Parable of the Hidden Treasure", from Matthew 13:44, “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and hid; and for joy over it he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field." https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=matthew+13%3A44&version=NKJV

A team of British treasure hunters found a fortune worth of coins dating from the 15th to 17th centuries using metal detectors to search a field in England. The team found a couple of coins and then asked the owner of the field for permission to search the 15-acre field. Over the next three days they…

You never know where you may find a hidden treasure. A West Point sweater purchased at a Goodwill store last June turned out to be an incredible bargain. A couple purchased the sweater for 58 cents and didn’t think much about it until they saw a documentary on legendary Green Bay Packers coach Vince…

Some people claim an old Atari video game may be the worst one the company ever made, but it still sold for over $1,500 during an eBay auction. The “E.T. The Extraterrestrial” game cartridge was buried in the city landfill at Alamogordo, New Mexico in the 1980s after the company declared the game a flop…

When Laurence Egerton’s metal detector turned up something of extraordinary value, he went to great lengths to protect it. Egerton routinely founds old shotgun cartridges and metal junk, but when his detector went off as he was surveying near the site of ancient Roman villa, he knew he had a unique find.…

In 1970, an engineer bought a plain looking wooden chest for about $150. All he wanted was something to put his television on. For the next 43 years, the wooden chest, known as the Mazarin chest sat in the man’s living room. What the man did not know about his television stand was that it was hand crafted…

A Virginia woman browsing flea markets in West Virginia saw a box of junk for seven dollars. A statue of Paul Bunyan sticking out of the box caught her eye. Purchasing the box and back home, she saw that a painting in the box had the word “RENOIR” written on the back of the frame. Bidding on the original…

An obscure piece of pottery donated to Goodwill by an anonymous donor may be a very valuable artifact. Goodwill says the piece was put up for auction and received two bids of $4.99 before a couple of people pointed out the potential value. A note found inside the pot indicated it was found in a burial…

Some of China’s richest entrepreneurs seem to have everything they could want. One millionaire admitted the economy is booming, his influence is spreading, and his firm is building modern skyscrapers in Beijing. Though things are going well economically, this millionaire says there is only one thing…

TREASURE A jobless man from Argentina who found $50,000 buried in trash is being sued by the woman who claims she lost the fortune. Recent economic problems in the country have forced thousands of Argentines to earn their living by collecting and selling street garbage such as cardboard. 46-year-old…

NEW YORK — A painting stolen 20 years ago was found lying in trash along a street, and now it could fetch up to $1 million at auction. Elizabeth Gibson didn't know anything about the brightly colored abstract work she spotted on her morning walk four years ago on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Sotheby's…

A pioneer in scuba diving, he became fascinated by buried treasure in the ocean. After spending several years discovering treasure from a Spanish treasure fleet that sunk in 1715, he became fascinated with the much richer promise of a Spanish treasure fleet that sank in 1622 in the Florida Keys. So in…

"When a man will venture nothing for Christ's sake, we must draw the sorrowful conclusion that he has not got the grace of God." Source: J.C. Ryle, Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: Matthew, London, 1965, pg. 152.

3 John Piper Desiring God Minneapolis, Minnesota 4 For Your Joy FOR YOUR JOY Published by Desiring God © 2005 Desiring God International Standard Book Number: 0-9773286-0-0 Edited for Desiring God Cover design by Edd Blott All scripture quotations are taken from: The Holy Bible: English Standard Version,…

John MacArthur Basisinformationen zur Bibel Christliche Literatur-Verbreitung Postfach 11 01 35 • 33661 Bielefeld Wenn nicht anders angegeben, sind die Bibelzitate der Schlachter 2000 entnommen. Abkürzungen weiterer Bibelausgaben: Elb.: Elberfelder Bibel, unrevidierte Fassung Lu 12: Lutherbibel von 1912…

I. Introduction When God created the universe and all within it, God looked and saw that it was good. At some point, however, evil entered the world and corrupted it. People may have different understandings of how this happened, but I don’t think anyone would argue that the world as we know it is the…

A Christian Guide to Passover (PESCH) Below is a compilation of several contemporary Seder services that are used today. Because of the passage of time and that Passover was intended to be a family tradition, it is not possible to reconstruct with certainty the type of Passover meal or celebration that…