May 3, 2023
by Wade Trimmer
Love in the Western world is a complex and often contradictory and confusing concept.
Little Jimmy Watkins was on the computer in his uncle's office. He started pecking out: "I am seven years old. My uncle's computer is fun to play with. I am going to help him write his book on "What is love?" He begins: "Billy Smith is in sixth grade, and he knows everything. Billy Smith...
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May 3, 2023
by Wade Trimmer
Matthew 12:30: "He that is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters."This pithy saying by Jesus clarifies the position into which the Pharisees have put themselves. It divides humanity simply into only two groups; there is no middle ground. With these solemn words Jesus draws the line of cleavage between himself and his enemies then and now. ...
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April 26, 2023
by Wade Trimmer
We have reached a tipping point in America where most of its citizens believe that our strength is in, and our trust should be in big government. We believe that government somehow has the unlimited capacity that only God possesses. When people reject the Lordship of Christ's rule, they place their hope in an earthly ruler whom they expect to satisfy their wants. The peo...
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March 27, 2023
by Wade Trimmer
Heb 12:1-2a, "Therefore then, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses [who have borne testimony to the Truth], let us strip off and throw aside every encumbrance (unnecessary weight) and that sin which so readily (deftly and cleverly) clings to and entangles us, and let us run with patient endurance and steady and active persistence the appointed course of...
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March 27, 2023
by Wade Trimmer
Matthew 28:18-20, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age."
This passage of scripture has been rightly denominated...
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February 16, 2023
by Wade Trimmer
Romans 1:18, "For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth."
There are few theological topics that are more unacceptable to the contemporary, Western world than the theme of the wrath of God.
The late Dr. J. I. Packer never spoke truer words than when he said, "The fact is...
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February 6, 2023
by Wade Trimmer
Genesis 1:26-27, "Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created the...
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January 26, 2023
by Wade Trimmer
Hebrews 9:27, "And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment"
Having reached the ripe old age of 75, I have begun to think more seriously and frequently about my mortality and the two appointments that I will soon be keeping (hopeful not real soon!). These thoughts have caused me to reflect more and more on the "then what's next" aspect of my exi...
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January 9, 2023
by Wade Trimmer
John 1:14, "And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth."
The Bible records many memorable moves. The day when Adam and Eve were forced to move out of the Garden of Eden was indescribably traumatic and tragic. The day the children of Israel left their homes in Egypt was tru...
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December 21, 2022
by Wade Trimmer
"But sanctify in your hearts Christ as Lord: being ready always to give answer to every man that ask you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, yet with meekness and fear" (1 Peter 3:15 - ASV).
"May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope" (Romans 15:13 ESV).
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