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• Working for the Master
  

• A Gospel Meeting
  

• Exhortation to Live Faithful
  

• The Christian Life: Sacrifice and Progress
  

• Effects of No Church Discipline
  

• If We Love - We Will Obey
  

• Why Should We Pray?
  

• Must I Be Baptized to Be Saved?
  

• Are You a Bible Christian?
  

• The Two Builders
  

• How Thankful Are We?
  

• Obedience
  

• What is the Social Gospel?
  

• A Lesson from J. W. McGarvey
  

• Church Kitchens and Fellowship Halls
  

• Remembering Jesus Daily
  

• The Christian Life
  

• The Bible: The Only Inspired Creed
  

• Determine Now to Follow Christ
  

• Give Me the Truth
  

• The Spirit of Christ
  

• I'm Just Not Meant to be a Full-Time Mom
  

• Forsaken the Right Way
  

• Which Name Should I Change?
  

• The Baptism of the Holy Ghost
  

• The True Church
  

• Church Hypocrites
  

• Are You M.I.A.?
  

• At What Point Does Faith Save?
  

• What Saves Us?
  

• Press on Toward Heaven
  

• Dancing is Sinful
  

• Coddling Sinners
  

• How Do We Hear the Word?
  

• Learning From Israel's Defeat at Ai
  

• Must We Observe the Sabbath?
  

• Living in Godliness
  

• From Virtue to Knowledge
  

• Ten Keys to a Better Bible Class
  

• Immodesty
  

• One Sinner Destroys Much Good
  

• The Stranger
  

• Oldness or Newness of Life?
  

• The Parable of the Talents
  

• Worry, Anxiety
  

• Am I Forsaking?
  

• The Lord's Supper
  

• Pre-occupied with Heaven!
  

• The Tree of Life
  

• Three Thousand Converted
  

• The Conversion of Saul
  

• Things to Think On
  

• Progressing Toward Spiritual Maturity
  

• The Day of the Lord
  

• The Plan of Salvation
  

• Be Steadfast
  

• Be Steadfast, Immovable!
  

• Planting Seeds for Christ
  

• Testing Your Faith
  

• How Can You Know God?
  

• Gluttony
  

• Fellowship with One Another
  

• How Faith Comes
  

• The Love of Man
  

• Avoiding Temptation
  

• Build Each Other Up
  

• Is It Necessary to Assemble?
  

• Why Did Jesus Come to Earth?
  

• Miracles and Their Purposes
  

• The Christian Charge
  

• The Erring
  

• Kindness is from the Heart
  

• "Majority" Missing the "Minority"
  

• Are You Afraid to Die?
  

• A Peculiar People
  

• Condemning the World
  

• Do You Believe in Jesus?
  

• How Does One Become a Friend of Christ?
  

• A Lasting Influence
  

• The Two Covenants
  

• How Are We Saved by Grace?
  

• What is Scriptural Baptism?
  

• Why Do You Wait?
  

• Do You Love God's Children?
  

• The Lack of Knowledge
  

• The Greatest Example of All
  

• But As For Me and My House
  

• The Blood of Christ
  

• What Manner of Persons Should We Be?
  

• Complacency
  

• Bible Authority
  

• I Am On the Lord's Side
  

• Showing Partiality
  

• What Do Others See In Us?
  

• Christian Giving
  

• Fellowship Halls
  

• Exposing Error
  

• The Role of the Church
  

• How Can I Deal with Worry, Anxiety?
  

• Are We Following the Lord?
  

• Winning Souls - A Joyful Experience
  

• Remembering His Resurrection Annually?
  

• Praying to God
  

• The Children of God
  

• What Will Become of My Spirit?
  

• The Truth of God's Word
  

• Does the Church Produce the Bible?
  

• Apostasy: Its Cause and Effect
  

• Gaining a Deeper Faith
  

• The Time of the Harvest
  

• The Doctrine of Christ
  

• The Handwriting of Ordinances
  

• Consider Your Ways
  

• Why Haven't You Obeyed the Truth?
  

• Our Christian Walk
  

• Attitudes Toward Error and Sin
  

• Where is Your Hope and Trust?
  

• We Are Raised with Christ
  

• Dressing Our Daughters Like Prostitutes
  

• Still Smoking?
  

• Parents Who Are Christians
  

• To Judge or Not to Judge
  

• Tinker Toy Religion
  

• Why Send for Peter?
  

• Salvation is a Process
  

• Then...He Preached Jesus to Him
  

• Back to the Bible for Worship
  

• Baptized Into One Body
  

• Suffering
  

• Unity
  

• Striving for Unity
  

• The Potter and His Vessels
  

• Mom: Both Mary and Martha
  

• School's Out - Let's Vacation
  

• The One Church
  

• Memorial Day - Celebrated Weekly
  

• Let's Go Fishin'
  

• Who is the Wise Man?
  

• Local Church Membership
  

• Singing to Praise God
  

• The Christian's Growth in the Lord
  

• The First Gospel Sermon
  

• The Excellence of Love
  

• Denominationalism is Unnecessary
  

• How Does One Become a Christian?
  

• The Meaning of Discipleship
  

• You Who Have Fallen From Grace
  

• The Spirit of Christ
  

• The Old Man and the New
  

• Judge with Righteous Judgment
  

• What Must I Do to Be Saved?
  

• The Christian Life
  

• No Excuses
  

• The Everlasing Fire
  

• Satan's Many Devices
  

• Our Christian Giving
  

• Behold a Soweer Went Out to Sow
  

• Preparedness
  

• Thou Art the Man!
  

• Can a Christian Fall From Grace?
  

• Individual Action versus Church Action
  

• Church is Not Like it Used to Be
  

• The Mode of Baptism
  

• Proving Things
  

• The Headship of Man
  

• Beware of Satan
  

• My Own Backyard
  

• Thanksgiving - More Than a Holiday
  

• The Triumphs of Faith
  

• Sabbath Made for Man
  

• How Many Shopping Days are Left?
  

• Stop Taking God's Name in Vain
  

• Walking in the Counsel of God
  

• Our Duty to One Another
  

• Some People Who Cannot be Saved
  

• When Do You Remember Jesus?
  

• Seasonal Activities: Secular and Religious
  

• The Upcoming New Year
  

• Doing More for the Lord in 2009
  

• The Pearl of Great Price
  

• Our Christian Development and Growth
  

• That's Impossible
  

• Do We Take the Worship Service Seriously?
  

• Having All Things in Common
  

• How Many Baptisms Are There?
  

• Calling on the Name of the Lord
  

• Individual or Church?
  

• Be Ye Steadfast
  

• What Consitutes Obedience?
  

• Our Body is for the Lord
  

• Set Thine House in Order
  

• A Man with a Problem
  

• Who Put Christ in Christmas?
  

• Do You Love God?
  

• Why is There Division?
  

• Our Duty to Ourselves
  

• Keeping the Commandments
  

• God's Guidance Told Again
  

• Closet Convictions
  

• A Welfare Religion
  

• The Love of Christ
  

• "In Due Season"
  

• Where is Instrumental Music Forbidden?
  

• Why Some Christians Are Not Devoted
  

• Our Personal Responsibility
  

• Unscriptural
  

• Putting the Gospel Meeting to Use
  

• Where's the Bible?
  

• Shaping Our Lives
  

• Fellowship
  

• Grace Revealed in the Gospel
  

• What Must I do to be Saved?
  

• To Live is Christ
  

• Salvation is Unlimited - But Conditional
  

• Do We Lay it to Heart?
  

• The Use of Alcohol
  

• Sunday Evening Communion
  

• When Was the Church Built?
  

• The Wicked and Disobedient
  

• I Wonder About a Lot of Things
  

• The Divine Authority
  

• The Testing of Things
  

• Steadfastness
  

• A Swarm of Gospel Be's
  

• Does God Accept Your Worship?
  

• The Truth Shall Make You Free
  

• The Glue for Unity
  

• What Are We Feeding Ourselves?
  

• Unrighteousness is Sin
  

• The Sting of Death
  

• Things to Think On
  

• What Has Happened?
  

• Should Christians Sing During the Lord's Supper?
  

• Immaturity
  

• It Won't Do Any Good
  

• Jesus' Deity While on Earth
  

• Spiritual Blindness
  

• Being a Good Listener
  

• Some Hindering Causes
  

• Our Conscience is Not Our Inspired Guide
  

• A Threefold Salvation
  

• Singing Praises to God
  

• How Does the Holy Spirit Witness Today?
  

• To Obey Is.....
  

• Words of Warning from the Past
  

• According to the Pattern
  

• The Sin of Jealousy
  

• The Christian's Love
  

• The Rigteousness of God
  

• The Commandments of Jesus
  

• Respecting Bible Authority
  

• Understanding the Good of Galatians 6:10
  

• Limited, or Unlimited Church Benevolence?
  

• Jerusalem Has Fallen
  

• Will You Swallow Anything?
  

• Parents and Children
  

• Saved Like Noah
  

• The Narrow Way
  

• Controlling Our Temper
  

• Having Life Within
  

• Marriage Principles: 1 Corinthians 7
  

• What Are You Watching and Listening To?
  

• A Health Care Reality Check
  

• Joining the Congregation of Your Choice
  

• The Inspiration of the Bible
  

• Sin Separates Us From God
  

• You Are A Very Influential Person
  

• Be Ye Imitators of Me
  

• The Good Book
  

• Psalm 148
  

• The Open Mind of the Seeker
  

• The Book of Lamentations
  

• The ? Christian
  

• Spiritual Reality
  

• Declare the Whole Counsel
  

• Longing for Whatever God Says
  

• Women Speaking and Teaching
  

• God Will Always Love Us More
  

• Spiritual Treasure
  

• The Reality of Apostasy
  

• Managing Multiple Priorities
  

• Some Things the Church is Not
  

• What Does God Want of us in This Life?
  

• Have You Counted the Cost?
  

• Will Honest and Sincere People Be Lost?
  

• Stay In Tune To -- Our First Love!
  

• Perspective on Prosperity
  

• What the Highest Hope Will Do
  

• Bible Authority
  

• Training Up Our Children Proerly
  

• Considering the Outcome
  

• Why Don't We See?
  

• Paul's Preparation for Eternity
  

• What Faith Makes Possible
  

• Daily Bible Reading
  

• Who Really Goes to Hell?
  

• Spiritual Blessings in Christ
  

• Letting People Be People
  

• Making the Right Choice
  

• Two Ways to Keep Members Faithful
  

• The Great Physician
  

• Expose Sin and Live for Christ
  

• To Join the Disciples
  

• Shining Faces
  

• Stay the Course!
  

• Is the Bible Sufficient?
  

• The Face of Friendship
  

• Be Holy Like Jesus Was Holy
  

• Doing the Will of the Lord
  

• You Can't Fool God
  

• Unconditional Surrender
  

• He Never Had Such Good Friends
  

• Perfecting Holiness
  

• "Trendy" Churches Have Empty Pews
  

• Real Change, Slow Progress
  

• Distractions on the Road
  

• Evangelizing the Lost
  

• Birds Don't Build Mansions
  

• We Can Truly Change
  

• Parents -- Are We Listening?
  

• Tragedy Should Make us Think
  

• Walk as Children of Light
  

• The Problem of Profanity
  

• Looking Forward to Bible Study
  

• Affections Set Toward Heaven
  

• The King James Version is 400 Years Old
  

• The Great Encounter
  

• God Has Spoken
  

• Every Christian's Personal Responsibility
  

• Baptism: Sprinkling or Immersion?
  

• What Sacrifice Means
  

• Profiting From Fear
  

• What Saves Us?
  

• Wine Is A Mocker
  

• Some Thoughts on God's Goodness
  

• The Mormon Message
  

• Obedience to God is a Must!
  

• Good Teachers
  

• Carefulness in Speaking of God
  

• David and the Showbread
  

• Talk to God Daily
  

• Evil Suspicions
  

• Taking Time to Think About God
  

• God Does Not Forget His Own
  

• Are You Raised WITH Christ?
  

• Think You Can Convert Him/Her After Marriage?
  

• Foolish Disregard
  

• What About Reincarnation?
  

• Come Out From Among Them and Be Separate
  

• The Power of Simplicity
  

• The Excellence of His Majesty
  

• Prayer Is Our Right
  

• Our Influence for Jesus
  

• That You May Believe
  

• Qualities That Keep Us From God's Best Blessings
  

• "Family Struggle" Rejects the Bible
  

• Memorial Day -- Celebrated Weekly
  

• Love, Obey, Worship
  

• The Love of Christ
  

• The All-Sufficient Savior
  

• The Ten Commandments (Part 1)
  

• Yielding to God
  

• Forgiving Others
  

• The Ten Commandments (Part 2)
  

• Worldliness
  

• Why Did David Use Instruments?
  

• Nicodemus Meets Jesus
  

• A Faith Strengthened By Doubt
  

• One Thing We Must Always Do
  

• Gung Ho
  

• Dost Thou Steal?
  

• Something Greater Than Greatness
  

• On Not Seeking More Than We Need
  

• You and the Passing of Time
  

• Make No Provision for the Flesh
  

• The Drawing Power of God's Word
  

• When Sorrow Turns to Self-Pity
  

• The Significance of the Lord's Resurrection
  

• Within the Circle of God's Care
  

• To Display or Not to Display?
  

• Is Jesus Our First Priority?
  

• How to See Eye to Eye Religiously
  

• Made to Be Filled
  

• Are the Gospel Writers Credible?
  

• Oh Boy! It's Allowed!
  

• The Problem of Heartless Prayer
  

• Empty Faith
  

• Following His Steps
  

• The Psalmist's Soul Winning Formula
  

• Head and Heart
  

• Crime and Punishment
  

• Stumbling Blocks
  

• The Culture of No Consequences
  

• What Faith Makes Possible, Love Makes Easy
  

• Where God's Love Is Best Learned
  

• The First One to Plead His Cause Seems Right
  

• How To Pray
  

• Church Sponsorship of Social Activities
  

• What Are We Seeking?
  

• What Good is God's Friendship?
  

• An Injustice Done to Men!
  

• The Christian's Relationship with the World
  

• Lasting Impressions
  

• The Servant's Opportunity
  

• Contrary Reality
  

• The Joy of Being a Christian
  

• Water Baptism
  

• When We Realize What Mercy Means
  

• I'd Like You to Meet My Pastor
  

• Well-Placed Faith
  

• Train Up A Child
  

• What Motivates What You Do?
  

• Motivation to Live Righteously
  

• The Prince of Peace Brought a Sword
  

• Where Do We Find New Converts?
  

• Making Repairs in Our Life
  

• The Church's Purpose
  

• We Need Both Desire and Training
  

• The Problem of Apathy
  

• The Importance of Knowledge
  

• Two Churches Want to Grow
  

• Good, Clean Godlessness
  

• Not a Drop to Drink
  

• Fear God and Work Righteousness
  

• My Prayer
  

• Nothing Between Us?
  

• When Nobody Notices
  

• Being Real
  

• What If There Is No Water?
  

• Ready to Listen
  

• Children's Behavior in Worship
  

• Good Speech
  

• Be Not Conformed to This World
  

• The Trust That Takes God Seriously
  

• If We Tell Our Children...
  

• The Real Test
  

• Five Smooth Stones of Parenting
  

• Powerful Truth
  

• Following the Pattern in Evangelism
  

• I'm Just One
  

• Following the Pattern in Benevolence
  

• When Our Seeking Goes Astray
  

• The Restoration Plea
  

• No, We Are Not Infallible
  

• The Pleasure of Pleasing God
  

• Proper Dress for the Battle
  

• No Compromise
  

• Gossip's Corrupt Fruit
  

• Paul's Defense and Jesus' Promise to Us
  

• Isn't It Strange That....
  

• Our Enemy Is Not Imaginary
  

• A Prepared Heart
  

• Handle With Care
  

• Self-Control
  

• Careful Learning
  

• The One Who Loved You Enough
  

• The Purpose of the Law
  

• When Jesus Became Angry
  

• What Does God Want Us to Learn?
  

• What Are the New Heavens and New Earth?
  

• Ask, Seek, Knock
  

• Christ Is Knocking at the Door
  

• Is Your Heart Big Enough?
  

• One Pearl of Great Price
  

• Possible or Impossible?
  

• Fat Doctors Who Smoke
  

• Knowing God
  

• Evasive Maneuvers