Jan 18, 2015 | Acts
On the evening of October 22, 1918, the Canadian Pacific Steamship “Princess Sophia” sailed from Skagway, Alaska bound for Vancouver. She carried with her 268 passengers and a crew of 75. The White Pass and Yukon Railway company had 85 of its summer...
Jan 18, 2015 | Acts
It will be nearly impossible to call this a Bible study. Although it is Bible-related, we aren’t actually studying the verses of our text. Just for fun & for a little background behind this chapter, let’s spend a few minutes on the Island of Melita. Some of you...
Jan 18, 2015 | Acts
Ours is not a very homogenous society. We live in the United States, but those 50 states are united only in certain ways and by regions. In many ways there are states as different from other states as many foreign countries. And then scattered throughout those states...
Jan 18, 2015 | Acts
One of the saddest of all anomalies in this world is when non-Christians are more Christian than Christians. For example, what are the three greatest Christian virtues? Faith, hope and charity. Why is it that many who reject Christ and the principles of the Bible...
Jan 18, 2015 | Acts
When I was just a little guy, still living in Omaha, Nebraska, my parents enrolled me in a summer, day-camp. I don’t remember if it was through the YMCA or if it was run by the city, but every morning for a week or two a group of us kids would gather at a certain...
Jan 18, 2015 | Acts
How much do you know about Buddhism? Most Biblical Christians know next to nothing about Buddhism. For example, most think that it was started by a man named Buddha. Actually, “Buddha” is not a name, but a title, just as “Christ” is a title....
Jan 18, 2015 | Acts
There are millions of semi-Christians and pseudo-Christians who think of God as a kind-heart philanthropist. They picture the Lord as a Being full of love and good wishes for all His creatures, but Who is, unfortunately, incapable of really taking good care of them....
Jan 18, 2015 | Acts
Fictional literature abounds with stories about people being mistaken for other people. Sometimes the hero, or villain, chooses to be mistaken for someone else, as in “A Tale of Two Cities.” But then, in what are usually funnier stories, there are...
Jan 18, 2015 | Acts
In the late 1950’s the U.S.S.R. jumped into space, and the Americans knew that they would have to keep up. President Kenney made his promise; the NACA became NASA, and work began toward putting an American on the moon. First came the Mercury project, which...
Jan 18, 2015 | Acts
Our title this morning is an old proverb: “All roads lead to Rome.” It’s a proverb which means that there are certain things at the center of other things, and eventually everything meets at that center point – that loci. It may only be a proverb today,...
