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A three legged stool is ok as long as the legs don’t get wobbly or broken. If they do the stool is off balance and cannot stand. Our lives are like a three legged stool we are made up of our body spirit and soul. The physical mental and emotional. The parts make up the whole unit of us. We must realize that if we do not keep ourselves tight and repaired the we will not be able to stand either. We become wobbly like a broken three legged stool. For us to be able to serve God,His kingdom, our families, our churches, then we must be able to bear the weight of responsibilities and obligations well balanced.
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Smyrna was a large, important city on the western coast of Asia Minor, famed for its schools of medicine and science. The words of Jesus to the church in Smyrna in Revelation 2:8-11 offer insight into the life of a first-century congregation, and there are many applications for today’s believers.
Read moreMother was born in 1931 and now calls an assisted living facility home. I visited her unannounced recently. She entered the dining area just as I started down the long hallway toward her. Mom happened to look my way. Though her eyes and memory are not quite what they used to be, she looked again quickly and said, “Danny!”
Read moreShirley grew up across from the local volunteer fire department in the small north Texas town of Holiday. Her parents were very involved in the community. If a fire occurred, the phone rang at Shirley’s home. Her mother would send her and her sister across the street to sound the fire alarm and wait to give the volunteers the address of the emergency.
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The church at Sardis was described as being “dead” (3:1). It appeared to be alive – had “a reputation of being alive” – looked spiritually vibrant on the outside – but was spiritually lifeless. The church was Christian in name only. This recalls Christ’s scathing rebuke of the Pharisees who “look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of dead men’s bones and everything unclean” (Matthew 23:27).
Read moreFrank Howard worked for Clemson University for 39 years, most of which he was the athletic director. He was asked one time if the athletic department could begin the sport of rowing. Howard, know for many humorous quotes, said, “No! We will never sponsor a sport where a man sits on his rump and goes backward!”
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Over the next seven weeks I am going to write about the seven churches in the book of Revelations. As the first chapter of the book of Revelation explains, the apostle John was given a vision of end-time events leading up to the return of Jesus Christ.
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