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    The Law

    1.  First, why study the Law if there is a new covenant and the Law has been fulfilled by the new Law of love? Isn’t the Law obsolete? Hebrews 8:10-12: 10 This is the covenant I will establish with the people of Israel after that time, declares the Lord. I will put my laws in their minds and write them on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people. 11 No longer will they teach their neighbor, or say to one another, ‘Know the Lord,’ because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest. 12 For I will forgive their…

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    A Fool’s Counsel

      There are two kinds of fools in the world. One is the Biblical fool who is best described as a person with no self-control. He is "a larger child" governed by the impulse of the passing moment and with no ability to rule his tongue emotions pleasures or thoughts. He is stupid and self-conceited and with no ability to see himself as he is ” he rushes to his own destruction hardly thinking at all about what awaits him. Grady Wilson was a childhood friend of Billy Graham and for 30 years he was perhaps his closest associate and confidant. He was also the one person who could let…

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    A Fool's Counsel

      There are two kinds of fools in the world. One is the Biblical fool who is best described as a person with no self-control. He is "a larger child" governed by the impulse of the passing moment and with no ability to rule his tongue emotions pleasures or thoughts. He is stupid and self-conceited and with no ability to see himself as he is ” he rushes to his own destruction hardly thinking at all about what awaits him. Grady Wilson was a childhood friend of Billy Graham and for 30 years he was perhaps his closest associate and confidant. He was also the one person who could let…

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    Finishing My Father’s Journey

    Steve Martin is known most widely for his early work in absurd comedy but he has also evolved into a serious art collector playwright and fine writer. In his memoir, “Born Standing Up” he recounts the death of his father. Growing up in Waco, Texas, Steve remembers his feelings toward his father as “mostly ones of hatred” as his father was cold and stern. He was critical of Steve’s career. and their relationship was awkward at best: “In his early 80s my father’s health declined further and he became bedridden. There must be an instinct about when the end is near as we all found ourselves gathered at my parents’home in…

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    Finishing My Father's Journey

    Steve Martin is known most widely for his early work in absurd comedy but he has also evolved into a serious art collector playwright and fine writer. In his memoir, “Born Standing Up” he recounts the death of his father. Growing up in Waco, Texas, Steve remembers his feelings toward his father as “mostly ones of hatred” as his father was cold and stern. He was critical of Steve’s career. and their relationship was awkward at best: “In his early 80s my father’s health declined further and he became bedridden. There must be an instinct about when the end is near as we all found ourselves gathered at my parents’home in…

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  • Bible Studies

    The Call of Abraham

    1.  Genesis 11:27- 12:3: This is the account of Terah’s family line. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor and Haran. And Haran became the father of Lot. While his father Terah was still alive, Haran died in Ur of the Chaldeans, in the land of his birth. Abram and Nahor both married. The name of Abram’s wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor’s wife was Milkah; she was the daughter of Haran, the father of both Milkah and Iskah. Now Sarai was childless because she was not able to conceive. Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, the wife of…

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    Follow the Money

    Studies and predictions about the transfer of wealth from parents to their children started popping up around the turn of the century. In their 1999 study, “The Millionaires and the Millennium: New Estimates of the Forthcoming Wealth Transfer and the Prospects for a Golden Age of Philanthropy,” Paul Schervish and John Havens at the Center on Wealth and Philanthropy at Boston College had financial planners scurrying to prepare investment plans to accommodate an estimated $41 trillion that would be passed over 50 years. For the next several years, investment firms rolled out products that would absorb the wave of assets. I heard about “pre-mortem” consultants hired by children to negotiate…

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    Genesis 3: The Fall

    1.  Genesis 3:1-13: 3 Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?”2 The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, 3 but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’”4 “You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman. 5 “For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes…