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by Pastor Curt on December 21, 2011
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death, family, grief, marriage, obedience, providence, sovereignty
By tale I don’t mean fiction. Each family referenced in this post once existed or does now actually exist. These tales relate fact, some of it hard-to-swallow, down right mind blowing truth. Household #1 – Ezekiel the prophet’s. Every year as I read through the entirety of the Bible I always come up short when [...]
by Pastor Curt on October 25, 2011
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comfort, death, Disability, disease, suffering
The good folks at Ligonier Ministries have hit the ball out of the park once again with this month’s edition of Tabletalk Magazine focused on death and disease. How I wish I had a copy during my head and neck cancer journey back in ’05. The articles within touch on so many redemptive themes that [...]
by Pastor Curt on March 6, 2011
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death, faith, hour, Jesus, messianic acclaim, triumphal entry
This morning’s message from John 12:12-19 is now on the website. You can listen to the audio here. The theme and outline for this two-part series on the triumphal entry are as follows: The distinctly unique aspects of Jesus’ triumphal entry into Jerusalem call for our belief in Him as the Messiah, God’s Son. He [...]
by Pastor Curt on December 26, 2010
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death, glory of God, love for others, power, prayer, purpose, resurrection
Today’s message from John 11:38-44 is now on the web. You can listen to the audio here. Here is the quote from Jonathan Edwards about the meaning of the term glory: The word glory denotes sometimes what is internal. When the word is used to signify what is within, or in the possession of the [...]
by Pastor Curt on December 19, 2010
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anger, death, doubt, emotion, faith, patience, testing
Today’s message from John 11:38-44 is now on the web. You can listen to the audio here. I reiterated the theme this way: Because Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead, we should believe on Him as the Messiah, God’s Son. We covered four of seven observations about Jesus from the text that present Him to [...]
by Pastor Curt on December 12, 2010
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anger, belief, death, devotion, Gospel of John, grief, incarnation, worship
Today’s message from John 11:28-37 is now on the web. You can listen to the audio here. Here is the quote by B. B. Warfield characterizing the depth of emotion displayed by Jesus as fundamentally rage. It is death that is the object of his wrath, and behind death him who has the power of [...]
by Pastor Curt on August 20, 2010
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cancer, death, healing, thanksgiving
Sweeter words a man has rarely heard. They came from the lips of my ENT on Wednesday. He spoke them after doing the upteenth exam on my mouth, tongue, and neck over the last five years, looking yet again for any evidences of cancer. The verdict? I can’t find anything wrong with you. Good thing [...]
by Pastor Curt on August 12, 2010
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cancer, death, deliverance, resolutions
As August marks the five year anniversary of my finishing treatment for head and neck cancer, I find myself thinking a lot about that season in my life. I had no idea going in what a monumental deliverance God would work on my behalf through the process. It amounted, in my estimation, to nothing less [...]
by Randy Woods on July 15, 2010
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death, sovereignty of God, trials
Today in our staff devotions at Z88.3, we were discussing the recent passing of my boss’ sister-in-law and the current status of Josh Hunter’s daughter Ava. Our bible teacher, Dr. Reggie Kidd, spoke about the reality of our limited vision and our non-God eye’s view of things. He spoke about when in grad school, he [...]
by Pastor Curt on March 20, 2010
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death, sickness, suffering
While suffering recently through the most prolonged bout with the Epstein Barr virus I have experienced in years, I received two vastly different perspectives on sickness. The first came from an old high school acquaintance. While I was ill she phoned me about our 40th high school reunion coming up in October. I explained that I couldn’t really talk with [...]
