Ecclesiastes 12:10

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This is my Radio program For the Hope Church of Christ: Why They Passed By

  How long do you have to know a person before you really “know” a person?  Can you truly figure out person’s character in just one meeting?  How long till you know if a person is a good honest soul?  A week?  A month?  A lifetime?  How big a sample of a person’s life to need to have to know if they are someone worth of emulation?   As you ponder those questions, consider this.  The ministry of Jesus is believed to have lasted for around three and a half years.  If you count all the days mentioned in the Gospels, you have about a month of events.  Not even all the events mentioned about Jesus in Scripture are recorded.  Luke 10:10-14 tells about miracles that were performed in Chorazin but we are never given the details of those miracles.   In fact, Scripture tells us that we don’t know all the events of the life of Jesus.  In John 21:25 we read, “And there are also many other things which Jesus did, which if th...

Spiritual Checkup This is my local radio program for the Hope church of Christ for March 11th 2012. 

   A few years ago, the church camp I work with built some new buildings.  After construction was finished, we ended up with several pallets of leftover sheetrock.  A board member found someone willing to buy the extra but we needed to load it up for them.  The only problem was the sheetrock panels had been put it the building before the walls had been finished and now had to be taken out one piece at a time.  In one building, it was much more difficult because all the doors were small.  We had to twist and maneuver each piece out the door in an exhausting process.  However, the other building was much simpler since at the end of the building they had made a wider door.  The process was made so much easier and less tiresome by just that little bit more room.       In 1 st Corinthians 16:9, Paul mentions that “ a wide door for effective service has opened to me ”.  I thought out this previous incidence when I heard ...

       I think the hardest thing about moving isn’t filling the boxes, or renting the truck or figuring out where everything goes, it’s all the change in habit.  Those simple routines we work ourselves into to simplify life.   Now instead of going into autopilot and following a familiar routine, we are forced make hundreds of little decision that normally would never enter our mind.  Everything seems harder than it should be.  Habits help make life easier.                         Easier however doesn’t always mean better.  Bad habits can give us less discomfort in the short term but set us up longer term failure.  Poor or vulgar language makes it “easy to say” but leaves others with negative long term impressions about us.  Fast and easy meals are nice but may bring regrets to your waistline.  The Bible ...