What are some of the signs of the End Times?

by Matt Slick 3/20/2017 The signs of the “End Times,” also called “the end of the age,” and the “Return of Christ” are clearly laid out in Scripture. All we need to do is look at what Christ said when he was asked that question. To summarize in advance, the signs of the end times will include the presence of false christs and false prophets, false teaching, war, persecution, apostasy, lawlessness, earthquakes, famine, plagues, increase in selfishness, denial of what is good, mocking of Jesus, an increase in knowledge, rise of spiritism, decay of marriage, ungodly lusts, rebuilding of the Temple, …

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A Profound Plan

by Charles R. Swindoll Scriptures: Job 42:1–6 Job’s Confession 42 Then Job answered the Lord and said, 2 “I know that You can do all things, And that no purpose of Yours can be thwarted. 3 ‘Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge?’ Therefore I have declared that which I did not understand, Things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.” 4 ‘Hear, now, and I will speak; I will ask You, and You instruct me.’ 5 “I have heard of You by the hearing of the ear; But now my eye sees You; 6 Therefore I …

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The Jagger Theory

In 1968, you could not help but hear the music. Songs that we find ourselves humming today, blasted from every radio that year. Nah, Nah, Nah…, Nah, Nah, Nah…, Nah, Nah, Nah, Hey Jude, was heard from every house that a teenager lived in. Otis Redding could be heard as he sang from the docks of the bay. Koo-Koo-Ka-Choo became more than lyrics, popularizing a movie. Choppers roared as Born to be Wild blared. The world was taught about little green apples, and was told the busyness of the Harper Valley PTA. Kids were instructed to dance to the music, …

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RUNNING THE RACE OF FAITH

Hebrews 12:1-3 (KJV) Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, 2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. 3 For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied …

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I can’t stop sinning. Please help!

If you are a person who is struggling against sin and failing, be encouraged: you are not alone. Many people who struggle with habitual sins do so believing two things: one, that they are the only Christian struggling and two, that the continual failures mean they are not saved. These are false beliefs—lies that Satan tells us to discourage us. The truth is that every Christian fights against sin, and most of us have at least one sin that presents a lifelong struggle, a flaw that causes us to learn the same tired lessons over and over again. Furthermore, most …

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The Source of Our Hope

The Source of Our Hope Colossians 1:26-28 26 Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints: 27 To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory: 28 Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus: Hope is a desire for something, accompanied by the anticipation of receiving it. If our expectation of fulfillment diminishes, …

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Now I Lay Me…..

“You had better be asleep by the time I get there!” She heard herself saying the words as if robotic. Words it seems she had to repeat every night. But that was life with a five year old son, repeating the same words over and over each day. As she reached his room, she could already hear the constant moving. As she peeped around the corner of the door, she found her son still sitting up in the middle of the bed. “I thought I told you to get to sleep!” “Mama, I can’t go to sleep yet, we forgot …

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The Prodigal Son:

by JACK WELLMAN The parable of the Prodigal Son is a story about God’s redemptive grace and mercy. It is a story of His unconditional love and forgiveness. It is about God seeking sinners. In Luke 15, Jesus tells about the youngest son coming to his father to ask for his inheritance ahead of time. The youngest son would only receive one-third of the father’s inheritance in accord to the Old Testament laws in Deuteronomy 21:17. He then took the inheritance and ran away to spend it all on having a good time. He had plenty of “friends” to help …

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Turn Around

by Charles R. Swindoll Scriptures: Job 42:1–6 Then Job answered Jehovah, and said, 2I know that thou canst do all things, And that no purpose of thine can be restrained. 3Who is this that hideth counsel without knowledge? Therefore have I uttered that which I understood not, Things too wonderful for me, which I knew not. 4Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak; I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me. 5I had heard of thee by the hearing of the ear; But now mine eye seeth thee: 6Wherefore I abhor myself, And repent in dust and …

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Occupy Until Our Lord’s Return

Excerpted from Life on the Highest Plane – Ruth Paxson (1928): Luke 19:12-13, “He said therefore, A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return. And he called his 10 servants, and delivered them ten pounds, and said unto them, ‘ till I come.’” “Occupy.” The Christian who looks and longs for the Lord’s return is sometimes accused by those who reject this truth of being a visionary, impracticable stargazer, waiting idly for something to happen to release him from a doomed world. They even claim that such a hope “cuts the …

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The Loss of Hope

Acts 27:13-26 The Storm at Sea 13 When a light wind began blowing from the south, the sailors thought they could make it. So they pulled up anchor and sailed close to the shore of Crete. 14 But the weather changed abruptly, and a wind of typhoon strength (called a “northeaster”) burst across the island and blew us out to sea. 15 The sailors couldn’t turn the ship into the wind, so they gave up and let it run before the gale. 16 We sailed along the sheltered side of a small island named Cauda, where with great difficulty we …

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