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Now What?

We are all in an odd place in history. This is an interesting time as we maneuver through this very strange time of virus and quarantine. We can talk to others around us and hear the grumblings of the desire to get back to our “normal” life. Our older generation wants to go back to work. Our younger generation wants to see their friends. But let’s focus in on the church during this time of uncertainty.  The 70 West congregation…
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The Little Things

Sometimes the ‘LITTLE THINGS’ can be so important. A little extra effort can go a long way especially when it concerns the impact of God’s Word.  Take for example the simple step of clicking on SHARE and SHARE NOW after watching one of the Bible class videos being produced by Tim Togami, Billy Hayes, and myself. Please, after studying with us, click on that SHARE and invite your own Facebook friends to join us in the study.  I recently established…
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Don’t Forget!

The current situation in the world has served as a reminder to me of certain key principles that sometimes I forget.  It has reminded me of the surpassing wisdom of the great Heavenly Father. It was God who commanded His church to gather together (Hebrews 10:24-25 ESV And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more…
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COVID-19 and Worship

We are living in very weird times. We are living in a time when a virus is sweeping over the world in a pandemic format. For the church, this time of quarantining our worship together looks very different from anything we have ever seen. It is a period of isolation and healing of our nation and yet we still see the Divine obligation to come together as a group of saints. All those things being understood, we need to understand…
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A Victorious Risen Lord!

In some ways it feels like the proverbial script for a classic Hollywood movie. You know the type of movie. The good guy hero that you have rooted for during the entire movie seems defeated up to the very end but comes back in a grand way to claim the victory. You and I can make a long list of movies with that theme. But the story of Jesus is more than a mere Hollywood movie. This day almost 2,000…
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Handling Current Events

The following six main points were originally written by another minister. I am borrowing his six points so that I might expand in further explanation considering the current crisis.  1. PAY ATTENTION TO THE WORLD BETWEEN YOUR EARS (I Peter 1:13) In many ways, you and I are influenced by what we think and what we think is linked to what we hear. Instead of the constant ‘bad news’ the media presents, I have doubled my efforts to study the…
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Making Lemonade

When life gives you lemons, then make lemonade. The current situation has certainly dealt us a serious lemon with this coronavirus, but we can all work together to make things better. We are now offering TWO daily Facebook Live Bible studies, ‘MANNA IN THE MORNING’ at 7 am daily for a 15-minute kickoff in the morning and ‘A MESSAGE OF HOPE’ at 7 pm daily for a 30-minute study. Please join Billy and me in these studies but do more…
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Unto to Thee, oh Lord…

Psalm 25:1-3 states, “(A Psalm of David)- Unto thee, O LORD, do I lift up my soul. O my God, I trust in thee: let me not be ashamed, let not mine enemies triumph over me. Yea, let none that wait on thee be ashamed: let them be ashamed which transgress without cause.” It is a fact that you and I have been singing this portion of the 25th Psalm for many years. It is a great source of encouragement.…
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News and Notes

We are living today in a very different world. The ‘coronavirus scare’ has impacted all of us. Nothing like this has happen in our country since the days of the 1918 influenza panic. I remember my grandmother (the only grandparent I had still alive when I was born – my mother’s mother) telling me stories about the influenza panic of 1918. She was born in 1876 so she was a mom with both adult children and small children at home…
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Keep My Commandments

The message may be brief but that doesn’t mean the message can be overlooked. With the cross looming just hours away, Jesus says, in a few words, a powerful message for all His followers, both the ones surrounding Him at that moment and followers today. In John 14:15 Jesus says, “If you love me, you will keep my commandments.” ESV “IF”-It’s a conditional statement. Either you love Him, or you do not love Him. There is no middle ground. It’s…
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Finding Open Doors

In some ways, Susan is a Christian due to something Judy did. The funny thing about that statement is the fact that Judy and Susan did not know each other until AFTER Susan became a Christian. Here’s what happen almost 20 years ago. Judy was scheduled to have surgery and keeping my normal procedure back then as it is still now, I was at the hospital waiting for her to arrive on the day of her surgery. I have always…
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Are We Trying to Fool Ourselves?

Earlier this month it happened again. A death took place in northeast Arkansas in a family I know well. I am not talking about the death directly but instead, the reaction to her death. I noticed on Facebook many people expressing their condolences, with several of those expressions being written by my brothers and sisters in the faith. They wrote, “She’s now in heaven looking down on all of us …She’s celebrating a grand reunion in heaven…She’s gained her victory!”…