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   Many, many summers ago I had a summer class at WKU. As odd as it sounds, I enjoyed “summer college classes.” Most of the time they were short, intense, and beneficial. Sometimes you would only get to know your peers briefly. One such contemporary of mine was a high school baseball coach. He attended …

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Being Recognized

(Lessons From Driving the Church Bus)               A few weeks ago, me and Amy drove one of the church buses to a congregation in Nashville to return Vacation Bible School material our congregation borrowed last summer. On our way back, we stopped at a little gas station. While refueling, a nice gentleman approached me and was …

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Picking Up Sticks

Surely, picking up some sticks is innocent, right? God would never care if someone took a few minutes to gather a few limbs and branches, right? Not so fast, my friend. Let us examine the matter carefully. Consider with me what is recorded in Numbers 15:32-36. Here we read about a man who was observed gathering …

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The Danger of Envy

Envy is defined as, “hostility, malice, enmity, a feeling of resentful or discontented longing aroused by another person’s better fortune.” Envy includes the desire to possess what someone else has, a lack of satisfaction with what God has provided, being wounded by the mere contemplation of someone else’s prosperity, and being glad at the misfortune …

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