Posts by Gordon Dickson
Thanksgiving Forever!
1 Corinthians 15:57-58 You might be sitting in a coffee shop with a friend when you hear this. Or perhaps you will be visiting in a Sunday school class with a friend or relative, and the teacher will say it. The friend or teacher will question the reality of the resurrection – whether anyone really…
Read MoreWho’s Holding Your Breath?
As I write this, we are anxiously anticipating the results of the national elections in the United States. It’s Tuesday, November 3, 2020 and today will undoubtedly be like many other election days. Filled with political pontifications and exit polls, analysis will run late into the evening. Over the years, people have expressed their anxious…
Read MoreHow Could I Know the Bible is True?
“Sanctify [set them apart] through thy truth; thy word is truth.” (John 17:17) I was stunned when I received that phone call. At 28 years of age, I had become the youth pastor of a church in South Carolina. And I realized fairly quickly that we had a problem in our church. One of our…
Read MoreBeing Bold Like Barnabas
Good Hope through Grace Acts 9:26-31 And when Saul was come to Jerusalem, he assayed to join himself to the disciples: but they were all afraid of him, and believed not that he was a disciple. But Barnabas took him, and brought him to the apostles, and declared unto them how he had seen the…
Read MoreBeing Like Barnabas
Acts 4:36-37 “36 And Joses [Joseph], who by the apostles was surnamed Barnabas, (which is, being interpreted, The son of consolation,) a Levite, and of the country of Cyprus, 37 Having land, sold it, and brought the money, and laid it at the apostles’ feet.” How should we face the grievous problems of life? When…
Read MoreNations Rage but God Reigns, Part 3
Psalm 2:10-12 The nations are raging. Protests have broken out across the world, raging against racial injustice. Protests have broken out across the U.S., leading 40 large cities to impose curfews to curb the violence. 62,000 National Guardsmen have been deployed, and more than 4400 people have been arrested.1 The “Antifa” (“Anti-Fascists”) are using the…
Read MoreNations Rage, But God Reigns, Part 2
Psalm 2:4-9 We began part 1 of this brief series by observing that society is in an uproar; “Why do the nations rage?” (Psalm 2:1). As we noted, “Civil unrest is brewing and the heat of this summer could easily light the fuse on the powder keg of societal problems.”1 And during these two weeks,…
Read MoreHow to Prepare for Hard Times
Acts 11:19-30 How would you respond if you knew that a disaster would happen soon? Or just for the sake of discussion, let’s say you could be certain that a disaster would occur within eighteen months. What would you do? How would you prepare? What if you did not have all the resources you have…
Read MoreWhat If One Lifetime Were Like One Year?
Moses wrote in Psalm 90:12 “So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.” All of us prepare for the seasons of the year. (If you don’t believe me, check the mall parking lots at certain times of the year.) All of us know how to plan for New…
Read MoreA Root Out of Dry Ground
Who Has Believed Our Report? Who would have believed it? Can we start with the words, “No way!”? “Not a chance!” “It isn’t going to happen!” (Or as some say, “Never happen, captain!) “There’s no path to success!” “Finished before He could even get started!” “You can’t get there from here!” So let’s start there.…
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