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Hosea 4:1-19

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Keith Hammer

It’s 6:15 in the morning. Terry’s alarm clock is screaming its high-pitched, pulsating sounds across the room. Terry, barely opening his eyes, checks his clock. That’s it, 6:15. Terry would like to sleep another half hour, but he knows he has a busy day ahead of him. He tears himself out of bed and lunges across the room to turn off the alarm. What day is it? It’s Tuesday. And today? Today is the ...

2. Living By A Hunch

2 Kings 4:8-37

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Keith Hammer

She was the most respected girls’ basketball coach Hankins High had ever had. Not only had her teams compiled the best record in the whole state during her 12-year tenure, but she was popular with all of her students as a teacher as well. She was one of those relatively rare persons who could bring out the best in almost every person she taught or coached. What made her do it, few people understo...

3. “Lucky” Is The Saddest Word

Jeremiah 20:7-18

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Keith Hammer

I race off to the convenience mart a few blocks from my home to pick up some milk for cereal for breakfast. I hurriedly go to the dairy case and snatch two plastic gallon jugs and turn for the checkout to pay for them. Suddenly I am confronted by “The Machine.” “The Machine” in this case isn’t a machine at all. It’s a huge display which overpowers everything else near the checkout, telling me that...

4. Take Care Of Each Other!

Ezekiel 33:1-20

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Keith Hammer

Once upon a time there were two little boys. They were both basically good little boys, but as boys like to do, they would run far and wide finding “interesting” places to play. Little Jimmy liked to play in the woods. Little Bobby liked to play in the fields, especially where there was lots of dirt. Jimmy would always bring interesting things from the woods home to show his parents. One time he b...

5. The Gift That Keeps On Giving

2 Kings 5:1-27

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Keith Hammer

It is a hectic Sunday morning after worship. People are streaming in and out of the pastor’s office as he tries to put away all of the things that seem to have accumulated on his desk since he arrived earlier that morning. Suddenly Neta appears at the door. “Pastor, I’d like you to meet Emily Johnson. She’s worshiping with us for the first time today and wants to join our church.” The pastor puts ...

6. The Soft-touch God

Hosea 11:1-11

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Keith Hammer

Every parent who has children approaching or into the early teenage years knows that the day of reckoning is coming. The day of which I speak, of course, is the day when the once compliant, cooperative little girl or boy becomes the defiant young adult. Many a parent among us waits with bated breath for the day to arrive. Not a few of us wonder how we are going to handle those times when our desi...

7. This Life Is Yours To Live!

Ezekiel 18:1-32

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Keith Hammer

There is a wonderful device that all of us have in our homes that reveals to us the solution to all of the problems we have in life. Some of you may think I am talking about the Bible, but I am not. While the Bible does reveal to us the spiritual truths that will make our lives whole, there is another more fundamental device that shows us who it is who can solve all of the problems we face every d...

8. When One Is Better Than Many

2 Kings 13:10-25

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Keith Hammer

Recently I heard a radio commercial by a well-known travel service. In the ad a neighbor asks the man in the family if he is moving when he sees him get in a large flatbed truck with a tow truck on the back. No, the man replies, they are just going on a vacation and his wife is afraid of breakdowns so they are bringing their own tow truck along. Then the neighbor asks whom the uniformed man is sta...

9. Who’s In Charge Here?

Jeremiah 18:1--19:15

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Keith Hammer

Anyone who works in a hospital emergency room can relate many stories of persons who come in under emergency situations and have suffered what appears to be a heart attack or have stopped breathing for other reasons. They are put on a breathing machine. Some of these persons do not regain consciousness even after they are put on the breathing machine. Then after a period of days or sometimes weeks...

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