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SOUND WORDS, SEP. 1, 2024
JESUS THE ROCK Rocks play an important role in Scripture. For example, when the children of Israel crossed the Red Sea, God took care of their thirst by providing water from a rock (Exod 17:1-7). Though they had tested God’s presence, God provided and demonstrated He was there. On the mountain, Moses asked to see God’s glory (Exod 33:12-23). God said, “My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.”. The Lord told him that His goodness…
SOUND WORDS, JULY 30, 2023
GROWING FOR A RUN Growing up I remember a threat my parents used against me should I fail to act right…If I didn’t get my act together in this class or that one, if I didn’t get the grades my parents knew I was capable of, if I was misbehaving and acting foolish, the threat was usually the same…NO MORE SPORTS. I love sports. I love playing them. I love watching them. I love watching my son play them. But…
SOUND WORDS, MARCH 19, 2023
FIRST PRIDE AND THEN THE FALL A story is told of a plane that suffered engine failing and was quickly falling to the earth. The plane was carrying four passengers that were all running out of time. An even bigger problem was presented when it was realized that there were only three parachutes on board the plane. One passenger was the pilot of the plane who said to the others, “I must survive in order to report what happened to…
SOUND WORDS, MARCH 5, 2023
THE UNTHINKABLE COMMANDMENT With every advancing sentence in Matthew 5 (v.21), Jesus has taken an ever larger bite out of the human ego. Every new contrast between the popular Pharisaic perversions and the real demand of kingdom righteousness has served to heighten the moral challenge. What the Lord at last commands in the sixth and last of these antitheses must have stunned His audience (Matthew 5:43-48). He has spoken the inconceivable when He said, “But I say to you, love your…