Jan 22, 2015 | Acts
Do you have any habits? I wonder how many of your own habits you could put on a piece of paper if you really tried. I also wonder how many more habits that your family, or your friends, could identify. It might be that some of your habits are easily recognized by...
Jan 22, 2015 | Acts
If I asked you, “What is the chief purpose of man?” how would you answer? The chief purpose of man is to glorify God. I Corinthians 10:31 – “Whether therefore ye eat or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.” That all we do...
Jan 22, 2015 | Acts
After years of investigation and $ billions, man does not yet know how many stars there are in the heavens. A nice round number that I have often heard is: a hundred million billion. On a clear winter’s night, when the sky isn’t disrupted with clouds or those...
Jan 22, 2015 | Acts
Let me begin this morning by telling a story on my wife – a good story. Judy went into a store a couple weeks ago and bought several things, including six of one particular item. They were kind of delicate and the clerk had to individually wrap them so that they...
Jan 22, 2015 | Acts
September 11, 2001 has often been compared to December 7, 1941. Both were sneak attacks which brought the United States into war, and both were acts of terrorism. “Terrorism” is the word most often associated with 9/11, and it is certainly appropriate. But...
Jan 22, 2015 | Acts
Do you remember when Peter was accosted by a young lady in the courtyard at the High Priest’s palace? This was not long after he took a sword and tried to cut off a man’s head. When this woman accused him of being a disciple of Christ, he lied and denied. That was the...
Jan 22, 2015 | Acts
When I was in Bible School there was a very popular Christian Trio visiting church after church. They came to the church where Judy and I were members, and the building was packed with more than 2,000 people. In those days, before they moved into the current...
Jan 22, 2015 | Acts
Please turn to Matthew 21:12. “And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, And overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves, And said unto them, It is written, My house...
Jan 22, 2015 | Acts
Let’s picture an award-winning astronomer – He has wild hair, red eyes, disheveled lab coat; ten pens stuck in the plastic protector in his breast pocket. This man has discovered things that no man has ever seen before. He has a constellation named for him and three...
Jan 22, 2015 | Acts
When Peter refered to “the stone what was set at nought,” which had “become the head of the corner,” He may have been referring back to any number of different sources. Originally, this theme came from the Psalm which we read earlier. The Lord...
