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Thousands of people fled the fertile slopes of Indonesia’s most dangerous volcano Saturday as glowing lava oozed down the side and ash and rock spewed from the mountaintop, leading authorities to warn that an eruption could come soon.

Villages on Mount Merapi were left virtually empty, although some residents returned to its slopes Sunday to tend their animals and crops…

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Sermon Title: Who pays When I Sin?

Heath Rogers preached this sermon, examing the consequences, to self, family, friends, the church, and even the Lord Himself as a result of sin. Excellent Lesson!

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Sermon Title: Judas Iscariot – The Man Who Became a Traitor

Heath Rogers preached this sermon, detailing the events surrounding the betrayal of Jesus, and examining the motives and actions of Judas Iscariot and the Lord.

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Sermon Title: Lot – How to Make a Terrible Decision

This sermon by Heath Rogers establishes that bad influences (in this case the men of Sodom) can corrupt our thinking and judgment to the point that we make bad decisions. Great lesson for young people.

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Sermon Title: God’s Eternal Principles

Heath Rogers preached this excellent sermon establishing from scripture certain principles which have been true from the beginning of time.

Unfortunately, the audio did not come out. However, Heath has supplied us with the Powerpoint file of the sermon.

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In a spirited debate that touched on topics ranging from slavery to the Progressive Era in American politics, supporters of same-sex marriage yesterday urged the state’s highest court to disqualify a controversial ballot question to ban gay matrimony starting in 2008.

A lawyer for Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders argued before the Supreme Judicial Court that Attorney General Thomas F. Reilly, in approving the ballot question, flouted a provision in the state constitution that blocks citizen-generated questions seeking the ”reversal of a judicial decision.” The SJC legalized gay marriage in Massachusetts in November 2003.

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Sermon Title: Godliness

Heath Rogers preached this lesson regarding the necessity of adding to our faith the Christian grace of Godliness (as per 2 Peter 1). This was as good a lesson as I have heard on the subject of Godliness, and I commend the lesson to you.

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Sermon Title: “He Added No More”

Heath Rogers’ sermon. A proper respect for the authority of God’s word will preclude us from adding to the commandments delivered for us. God has spoken, we must accept His word.

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Sermon Title: Proper Attitudes Toward Obedience

Heath Rogers preached this lesson, examining the proper attitudes we must have toward the commands of the God of heaven.

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Sermon Title: The Conversion of the Philippian Jailer

Heath Rogers, visiting from Edna, TX, preached a wonderful lesson on the conversion of the Philippian Jailer in Acts 16. This first prinicple lesson establishes clearly what each person must do to obtain redemption under the law of Christ.

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Sermon Title: Bible Baptism

Rather than allowing denominationalists to explain away the nature and necessity of baptism, we let the Bible define it and explain its place in God’s scheme of Redemption.

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Sermon Title: The Greatest Need

The greatest need for humanity is not peace on earth, or food and clothing. It is the preaching of the gospel of Christ. As Christians, we are the ones who have been charged to spread the word of God to the lost.

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Baal, or Ba’al was the principal male god of the Canaanites. Actually, the term Baal means “Lord” in the Hebrew language, and was used in the Old Testament in reference to many different gods, including Jehovah.

In fact, in the days of Hosea the worship of idols had become so prolific that God equated the unfaithfulness of Israel with whoredom.

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In the first 1,000 years of Christianity, only monks and priests knew how to read and write. Every one else was illiterate and ignorant and was totally dependent on the monks and priests for information on and explanation of the world around them.

The opening of universities in Europe starting in the 12th century, the invention of movable-type printing in Germany in the 15th, the spread of universal education starting in the 19th… democratized to some extent the portals of knowledge.

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In about 512 B.C., as Darius I of Persia led his armies north of the Black Sea, the Scythians sent him a message comprised of a mouse, a frog, a bird, and five arrows. Darius summoned his captains. “Our victory is assured,” he announced. “These arrows signify that the Scythians will lay down their arms; the mouse means the land of the Scythians will be surrendered to us; the frog means that their rivers and lakes will also be ours; and the Scythian army will fly like a bird from our forces.”

But an adviser to Darius said, “The Scythians mean by these things that unless you turn into birds and fly away, or into frogs and hide in the waters, or into mice and burrow for safety in the ground, you will all be slain by the Scythian archers.” Darius took counsel and decided that the second was the right interpretation, and beat a retreat!

Today in the Word, January 1992, p.22.

It does matter how you interpret scripture. There is the true interpretation of a passage, and then there are other interpretations which men assert to their own peril. We can know the truth, but we must set aside our own preconceptions, and let the word of God say what it says! “These were more fair-minded than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness, and searched the Scriptures daily to find out whether these things were so” (Acts 17:11).