March 1, 2021 @ 8:00 AM

Do you ever feel that you are in the midst of a spiritual battle? You are. We all are. The battle is good vs. evil. It has been that way since the Garden of Eden. The unseen spiritual world is real and all around us. Sometimes we are aware of the spiritual realm and sometimes we are not, but it is always present. People tend to either underestimate or overestimate the reality of Satan. To underestimate is to think Satan is a fictional super villain. Those who overestimate him, credit him with an overabundance of power. The reality is that human beings are no match for Satan. But Satan is no match for God. The good news is that the battle between good and evil has already been won. Satan was defeated by Christ at the cross. We fight from ...

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March 1, 2021 @ 8:00 AM

Let’s have some fun. Try matching the birth names of these Hollywood stars with their studio names. The answers are at the bottom of the page.

  1. Marion Robert Morrison
  2. Bernard Schwartz
  3. Archibald Leach
  4. Frances Gumm
  5. Norma Jeanne Mortenson
  6. Issur Danielovitch
  7. Cherilyn Sarkisian
  8. Charles Dennis Buchinsky
  9. Nicolas Coppola
  10. Dino Paul Crocetti

During the golden age of Hollywood, movie moguls often renamed budding stars with names the moguls felt had better box office appeal. Hey, who wouldn’t want to go to a movie starring Archie Leach? Yep, Cary Grant has a bit more star quality to it.

So what’s in a name? Why are names important? Names are important because they put a label on who we...

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March 1, 2021 @ 8:00 AM

The Rapture of the Church

What is the “rapture of the Church?” Rapture comes from a Latin term meaning to catch up or snatch and describes the return of Christ in the clouds to rescue His Bride, the Church from the coming Great Tribulation. There are multiple positions on the second coming of Christ. Some believe it will be premillennial (before the 1000 year reign of Christ on earth). Some believe it will be postmillennial (after the 1000 years reign of Christ on earth). Some believe it is amillennial (at the end of the Church age, no millennium).

Some who believe in premillennial second coming believe the rapture will be pretribulation (before the Great Tribulation). Some believe the rapture will be mid-tribulation (halfway ...

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March 1, 2021 @ 8:00 AM

The answer to that question is yes, there are degrees of anger. We will take a look at those degrees in a moment but first let’s consider a couple of characteristics of anger. First, anger is a basic emotion built into us by God Himself. Just as God gets angry so we, who are made in the image of God, get angry. The Bible tells us that God  was repeatedly angry with rebellious Israel and with His children when they sinned. Consider Psalm 30:5 where King David writes, “For His anger is but for a moment, His favor is for a lifetime. . .” or Psalm 38:1, “O Lord rebuke me not in Thy wrath; and chasten me not in Thy burning anger.” God is often called a God of wrath and fury (Deuteronomy 29:28, Psalm 6:1).

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