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Celebrating Milestones: Salvation For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God. Ephesians 2:8 At the age of 26, Calvin Hunt lost a much-desired recording contract. Disappointed and angry, he began experimenting with drugs. Over the next few years,…

A Church goer wrote a letter to the editor of a newspaper and complained that it made no sense to go to church every Sunday. 'I've gone for 30 years now,' he wrote, 'and in that time I have heard something like 3,000 sermons. But for the life of me, I can't remember a single one of them. So, I think…

Barna: Doctrinal confusion abounds; Mohler: Church is key to discipleship Oct 14, 2002 By Michael Foust LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP)--Seventy-nine percent of Americans profess a belief in the Trinity, while 74 percent reject the concept of original sin; 59 percent say Satan is merely a symbol of evil; and nearly…

From: Jim Meigs from FBC, Center Point, Alabama

Pastors today are faced with more work, more problems, and more stress than any other time in the history of the church. This is taking a frightening toll on the ministry, shown by the statistics below: Pastors: · Fifteen hundred pastors leave the ministry each month due to moral failure, spiritual burnout…

Holiness is not the cause of spiritual life and safety; faith is the wellspring of all. In the spring you see the hawthorn covered with a delicious luxuriance of snow-white flowers, loading the air with fragrance, but no one among the admiring gazers supposes that those sweet blossoms caused the hawthorn…

Monday, August 20, 2007 FOOTBALL QUOTES Subject: FOOTBALL PHILOSOPHY At Georgia Southern, we don't cheat. That costs money and we don't have any." Erik Russell / Georgia Southern. "Football is only a game. Spiritual things are eternal. Nevertheless, Beat Texas." Seen on a church sign in Arkansas prior…

A certain monk went to a monastery, determined to give himself up entirely to contemplation and meditation. When he reached the place he saw all the monks at work, tilling the ground, plowing, or trimming the vines round the monastery. He very solemnly observed as he entered, “Do not work for the food…

Suppose a corpse is before us. How great a pretender would he be who should boast that it was in his power to restore it to life! Certainly, it would be even a greater pretense if anyone should say that he could give to himself or to another the divine life, the spiritual life by which a man is made…

Communion Order taken largely from a Communion Liturgy published by R. Kent Hughes. (Hughes, R. Kent. The Pastor's Book (pp. 447-449). Crossway.)

Do you see that clock? That is the evidence of the time of day. The hour would be precisely the same if we did not have that evidence. Still, we find the clock of great use. So we say that good works are the best evidence of spiritual life in the soul. Is it not written, “We know that we have passed…

That which is not appropriated can be of no use to you. Look at your food. How is it that it builds up your body? Because you take it into the mouth, and it descends into the stomach, and there it is mixed with certain fluids, and is digested, and ultimately is taken up into the system and becomes a…

When a man has been drowning, I have heard that his sensations have often been very pleasant. But when the circulation of the blood commences again, pain begins at once. And the more pain he suffers, the more surely is he being restored to life. It is just so with the spiritual blood that is circulating…

There is no use in mere formality. If your religion is without spiritual life, what is the use of it? Could you ride home on a dead horse? Would you hunt with dead dogs? Would anyone like to go into battle with a pasteboard helmet? When the sword fell on it, what use would such a helmet be? In the depth…

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Soviet dissident who suffered in a gulag before fleeing to the United States knew that some pain—whether physical, mental, or emotional—can be severe and chronic. Christians know that avoiding suffering is impossible in a sinful world. We are reminded that it was the sufferings…

# Philippians 3:17–21 ## Opening So far in this chapter Paul has warned against the Judaizers, and any who would place their confidence in who they are, or what they have done and not the finished work of Christ alone. By way of rebuking this idea, Paul gives his own longs list of “fleshly” qualifications…

There is therefore no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus , who walk not after the flesh , but after the Spirit

You belong to the gym. You faithfully pay your monthly dues and make your almost daily trips to work out. You expect impressive results. Now you learn that is not enough. In addition to your trip to the gym, you need to stop in at your fitness studio where you pay upwards of $150 per month to help your…

The most common way to think about getting enough rest is getting enough sleep. However medical internist Dr. Saundra Dalton-Smith said the idea of rest should be considered more like the word ‘restoration’ which is vital to many different areas of life. For Dalton-Smith, rest encompasses physical mental…

Vince Lombardi, the former head coach of the Green Bay Packers, emphasized going over the fundamentals in his training camp. He would repeatedly go over football basics like block and tackle, and review his plays over and over again from page 1. Through this method of building on a strong basic foundation,…

Some of us are always looking for a shortcut to physical fitness. Now there are some possible solutions on the horizon. Scientists are testing compounds that they can put into a pill to produce the same effects as exercise. One proposed pill would give us more endurance and weight control, without the…

# Philippians 1:3–8 ## Opening: Paul’s Thanksgiving As we move on this morning in our study of Paul’s letter to the Philippians, we find Paul following his normal pattern of thanksgiving and prayer. This week we will look at his statement of thanksgiving about the Philippians, and next week we will look…

The most popular college class in America today is at Yale University. Psych 157: Psychology and the Good Life is attracting 1200 students per semester. According to the professor, today’s college students are not happy, and she thinks the unhappiness extends far beyond college students. “Students are…

Who among us, worrying about the smell of our breath, hasn’t tried to smell our own and found it impossible? Breathometer, a Silicon Valley based startup, created a device, the Mint that will do it for you. All you have to do is to bite down on it for 30 seconds, and the Mint will chemically analyze…

# Philippians 1:9-11 ## Opening — Paul’s Prayer This morning we conclude our look at the opening section of Paul’s letter to the Philippians. In verses 1–2, we have the opening salutation which identifies the author, Paul, and with him Timothy—The young man he has mentored. It also identifies the recipients—all…