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Bible Reading
The New Year is a time for resolutions. Let’s resolve to make 2017 The Year of the Bible Reader for the North Main Street Church of Christ. Consider this message…
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THE EVER-PRESENT POOR
On one occasion Jesus made this statement: “Ye have the poor with you always.” (Mark 14:7) It is so obviously true. Even in a land as prosperous ours. Even with…
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History’s Lessons
Someone, somewhere said, “Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” Is that true? Is that statement in harmony with the Bible? Read Jeremiah 3:6-10. Let…
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God Demands Our Best
The Prophet Malachi wrote, “If ye offer the blind for sacrifice, is it not evil? And if ye offer the lame and sick, is it not evil? Offer it now…
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NOT BY BREAD ALONE
When the devil tempted Jesus saying, “If thou be the Son of God, command this stone that it be made bread,” Jesus answered, “Man shall not live by bread alone,…
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Psalm 139
O Lord, You have searched me and known me. You know my sitting down and my rising up; you understand my thought afar off. You comprehend my path and my…
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DELEGATED AUTHORITY
The work of judging the people in every small matter was too much for Moses to do alone. Jethro, his father-in-law, advised him to not shoulder all this…
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BLESS THE LORD
Psalm 103 both begins and ends with the words, “Bless the Lord, O my soul.” It’s a common theme running throughout the Psalms. And there are many reasons suggested as…
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WHAT’S ON YOUR MIND?
What has been on your mind lately? Does it measure up to this: “Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are…
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Prayer & God’s Will
The following question was submitted to the religious writer of the Winston-Salem Journal: “Can prayer actually change God’s will?” While the answer given by the writer contained some good observations,…