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Written by Dr. Harold McNabb
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Sunday, 06 November 2005 16:00 |
On July 25, 2000, Air France Concorde flight 4590 on July 25, 2000, which crashed on take off in Paris. One hundred passengers, nine crew, and four people on the ground were killed when the Concorde banked, went into a stall, plunged to the ground, and exploded on impact in a fireball.
The cause of the crash was a 16-inch strip of metal found on the runway that burst the aircraft?s tire, and the debris from the blowout ruptured a fuel tank in the aircraft?s wing. With the plane on fire the pilot could not halt the take off; he planned to make an emergency landing at Le Bourget airport a minute?s flying time away.
As investigators sought to discover the reason for the accident, they listened to the tapes of the pilot?s conversations with the control tower. His last words as he fought to save his stricken craft were, "Too late."1.
"Our oil is run out", "the door is closed", and "sorry, I don?t know you". Words of Jesus in the parable of the wedding attendants. It?s too late.
William Barclay says that a casual visitor to Palestine in the early part of the 20th century would have witnessed the scene which Jesus describes in his parable. A wedding celebration was not a matter of . . .
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Tithing: It's a Law of the Heart |
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Written by Dr. Harold McNabb
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Friday, 28 October 2005 17:10 |
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Donald Drusky of Syracuse New York took God to court. The one-time employee of USX Corporation blamed God for failing to rectify the wrong done to him when he was fired in 1968. Drusky waged a 30-year battle with the steelmaker, before deciding to take legal action against God. The suit reads:
The defendant, God, is the sovereign ruler of the universe and took no corrective action against the leaders of his church and his nation for their extremely serious wrongs, which ruined the life of Donald S. Drusky.
For damages, Drusky asked for the return of his youth, the skill of a great guitarist, and the resurrections of his mother and pet pigeon. Drusky hoped that God would fail to appear in court, allowing him to win the case by default.1
Drusky?s case was declared frivolous and thrown out by a Syracuse court, but I imagine he made a bit of money on the late-night talk-TV circuit.
Some folks quicky turn to blame God when life hands them disappointment, but thinking we can turn the tables on God is even too much for a court-room.
We forget that God is the law-giver and the judge of all the world.
If He were just our judge, and nothing more, then humanity might be understood if we spent our time thinking of ways to outwit our creator, as futile as that would be.
But God is not just creator, though that is enough to hold us accountable for all the law and commands we have been given. God is creator, and . . .
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Last Updated on Saturday, 29 October 2005 15:27 |
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Written by Rev. Spence Laycock
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Tuesday, 25 October 2005 18:50 |
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This morning we are going to consider a place in Israel that is one of the oldest ruins on the face of the earth. Next to Jerusalem , no other Israeli city has received as much interest or research. It is the city of Jericho , and what took place there 3400 years ago has everything to do with us here this morning. The nation of Israel was a people of about 1million, living in a tent city called Gilgal, just 5 miles or so from Jericho . By faith they had been rescued from Egypt , by faith they had survived forty years of desert wanderings, by faith the Jordan River had stopped flowing so they could cross. Now the waters of Jordan flowed again, closing their exit, now they were ?in the cage with the tiger?- so to speak. In front of them was a fortress of incredible, even legendary, strength. It was the first city and perhaps the greatest city they were to face and God directed them to move forward. Consider for a moment what this meant. Here?s a picture of the way it was built.
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You Have the Seed: Plant it |
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Written by Dr. Harold McNabb
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Sunday, 23 October 2005 16:00 |
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You will always be rich enough to be generous.
My good friend Gordon Patterson, minister at New Hope Baptist Church told me of a year he spent in mission work in Kenya. He said that on one occasion, he visited a home and that on leaving was presented with a coke bottle full of goat?s milk. This was the best gift his hosts could afford.
Jesus remarks about the single penny a woman puts in the offering at the temple. It was the best gift she could afford. Both these examples were of extravagant generosity. It is not the amount that is the issue, it is extent to which these poor people went to be generous. No matter how poor you are, you will always be rich enough to be generous.
Paul says, "he who supplies seed to the sower will increase your supply of seed and increase your harvest as well." The obvious caveat is, "if you plant what you have."
You know the story of the two lakes of the Holy Land.
The first is the northern lake of Galilee. Sometimes called the Sea of Galilee in the north. In Hebrew its name is Yam Kinneret.
It is watered from the Jordan River and underground springs. It is rich in . . .
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Written by Rev. Spence Laycock
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Thursday, 20 October 2005 17:42 |
Have you ever been in someone else?s kitchen and see them prepare raw hamburger on the counter, then as you watched they immediately prepared some bread on the same surface? Have you ever been in a public washroom and as you wash your hands you notice a person from another cubicle just leave without washing at all? Have you ever seen someone counting money and they lick their fingers to get a better hold on the bills? All of these actions have a ?contaminating? aspect to them. Is this just a phobic response, or is it a bad practice that can be harmful to yourself and others?
Go a step deeper, is it sin? I want to talk with you about purity from an Old Testament perspective this morning. In the days of Moses when the Law was given, impurity was a complex issue. A person could do many natural actions and be considered impure because of them. A woman gives birth and is considered impure for a certain number of days, and that depending on whether it?s a boy or a girl. A person touches a corpse, perhaps of a relative as they bury them, and is considered unclean or impure. Eating a certain kind of meat or preparing food in particular way resulted in impurity. This was considered just as defiling as a moral impurity would be, like swearing, lusting, lying, thieving, murdering. Until it was dealt with in the prescribed manner, it would render that person impure.
Here?s the point and the reason for why we consider this in light of what we are about to read?Purity, to God, is the starting point. Before God empowers or employs, He . . .
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