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Are you bitter over what others have done to you? Hebrews 12:15 says, “See to it that no one falls short of the grace of God and that no bitter root grows up to cause trouble and defile many.” Bitterness doesn’t just hurt you – it hurts many others. Whenever I think of someone who…
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Do you have any scars? There is one on my left knee from a chainsaw, one on my right ear from when my mom tried to save a few bucks on a haircut, another on my left pinky when I stabbed a tree with my new Swiss Army knife that didn’t have a locking blade,…
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Is it fake news or not? Fake news used to be only found in the tabloids next to the checkout at the supermarket but now it’s everywhere. When I scroll through my news feed on social media it can be hard to distinguish between true and fake news. Who can you trust these days? Most…
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The overbooking of seats and maltreatment of a passenger on a popular airline recently had me thinking about something. Have you ever had great seats on a plane? I had a friend who worked for an airline company and once bumped us up to first class! Great seats usually come at a great price. What…
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My week consists of meeting with people because as a pastor I’m in the people business. I’ve had the honor of meeting with hundreds of wonderful people and getting to know them better over the years. I remember once I came to the office to meet with someone and there realized I had triple booked…
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A hole in your roof is never a good thing. Several years ago when we first got our camper it already had a small pencil eraser sized hole in the back corner of the roof. I patched it and it never leaked again but little did I know the damage had already been done. Recently,…
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A phrase I often says is, “I’m glad my momma whipped me long enough for Jesus to save me.” I needed discipline as a child. My parent’s discipline (not just spankings) helped guide and shape my character. Pastor, you believe in spanking? Well, not when I was getting them – who does then? But Scripture…
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What if you woke up this morning, sat down at the kitchen table with your breakfast, opened up the local newspaper and read your obituary? That’s right, you died! What would that obituary say about the life you lived? This happened to Alfred Nobel. We all know him for his creation of the Nobel Peace…
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I hate to see marriages end…especially ones where I preached the ceremony. I still call marriage holy matrimony. Most marriages end with these two words: “irreconcilable differences”. Anything, it seems, is grounds for divorce these days. I personally know of a couple that divorced over a cheeseburger. Yes, a cheeseburger. Now, the issues were much…
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Perhaps this is a question to which you’ve never given much thought. Maybe this causes you to think even further back to the beginning of time: what color were Adam and Eve? Try this: close your eyes and think about the image of Jesus. What color do you see? Do you have a picture of…
stephen R Harrison 