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Unshaken

“God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.” Psalm 46:1 July 25, 2025 Home security systems are doing a brisk business. Self-protection is a reasonable act and illustrates the plight of the human race. Idols throughout the world and history are created to allay our fears. Psalm 46 was written in […]

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The Unknown God

“For as I passed along and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription: ‘To the unknown god.’ What therefore you worship as unknown, this I proclaim to you.” Acts 17:23 July 23, 2025 How are we to respond to people who seem blind to the Christian faith? That’s

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Full of Idols

“Now while Paul was waiting for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he saw that the city was full of idols.” Acts 17:16 July 21, 2025 The Athens Paul visited was notorious for its pursuit of meaning by worshiping Athena – the worship of the mental, Zeus – worship of might,

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A City of Idols

“Now while Paul was waiting for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he saw that the city was full of idols.” Acts 17:16 July 18, 2025 The city of Athens in Paul’s day was an upside down world. It boasted of its glorious past and reveled in its intellectual sophistication. But

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Resisting the Devil

“Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.” James 4:7 July 16, 2025 Becoming a Christian immediately embroils us in warfare (Jas. 4:1). The book of James alerts us to our adversary. Demons lurk (Jas. 2:19), the tongue can be set on fire by hell (Jas. 3:6). We have

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Hard Hearts

“What then? Israel failed to obtain what it was seeking. The elect obtained it, but the rest were hardened.” Romans 11:7 July 9, 2025 It was Martin Luther, the Reformer, who said, ”The human will – like a horse – if God sits on it, it goes where God wills; if Satan sits on it,

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Another Generation

“O God, from my youth you have taught me, and I still proclaim your wondrous deeds. So even to old age and gray hairs, O God, do not forsake me, until I proclaim your might to another generation. Your power to all those who come.” Psalm 71:17-18 June 30, 2025 Generations come and go like

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