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The Stones We Throw

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I fight it constantly. The innate ability to see fault in others. I would say that we are all pretty skilled at this. What makes it worse is this ability is often accompanied by another unremarkable skill to choose and ignore our own faults and failures. While we are all keenly aware of our faults it feeds our pride when we can clearly see the failures of others. One of the most amazing stories of the Bible that puts on display the immense grace of the Lord is that of the woman who was taken "in the very act" of adultery. The scribes and Pharisees brought this lady who could not have been more guilty. Instead of passing condemnation upon this woman, the Lord challenges the intentions of the supposed religious men. He says in John 8 and verse 7, "He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her." Let's consider the failures of these men and the process by which our Lord handled this situation so that we might be more like Him and less like
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Leftists sound like really good Christians

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Leftist liberals have stolen a few pages right out of God's playbook! Before you go and get all mad, let me explain what I mean. I mean that throughout Scripture, we see that Satan uses what God creates and abuses it. The devil is not creative so therefore he only ever offers cheap counterfeits of what God meant as a blessing for men. For instance, look at how Satan has abused sex in our society. Even Christians have to bow their head in embarrassment when the word is mentioned. Why is this? Hebrews 13:4 says, " Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled:". In our world, this thing that was originally meant for the purpose of reproduction and to be an expression of love between a married couple (man and woman) has become a taboo subject. Just a quick glance at the world around us and we can see how that it has been marketed, distorted and abused. Now we view it as shameful, carnal, and dirty. Satan has won in creating a false paradigm in our minds in this area.
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Let's Get Acquainted

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Every week at my church we encourage first-time guests to take a card and fill out as much information as they are comfortable sharing with us. The reason is so that our church can follow up with them as to how their visit went, if they are new to the area, or just looking for a church to join. Also, the main purpose of this card is so that we can stop by and ask them about their salvation. This is by no means a revolutionary idea. In fact, I would guess just about every church everywhere has a similar process. Some call them "connection cards" or some get really creative and call them "first-time guest cards". Our church calls them "Let's Get Acquainted Cards" and has for years. With this in mind, let me introduce myself or let's get acquainted. My name is Andrew Wolfenbarger and I am one of the Pastors at Joshua Baptist Church. I grew up in the church that I now Pastor which is pretty awesome and kinda strange at times. Especially when someon
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