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1. Demons in Our Modern World

Mark 1:21-28

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Roger Ray

I was just as naive as I was sincere when I wrote a letter to a missionary in Papua, New Guinea. I was a 19-year-old college student trying to make sense out of the Bible. I was reading the gospels with an ardent desire to believe what I was reading but I kept getting hung up on these stories about demon exorcisms. If the gospels were true then there were real demons in the world and yet I didn't ...

2. Diet Soft Drink Religion

Matthew 10:24-39

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Roger Ray

One of the things which has rather surprised the people who study church growth is that many of the churches which are really booming are the ones which ask the most of their members. While we hear a lot about making the church accessible and making worship a "low threshold" experience, what we are seeing is that some people are catching on to the fact that symbolic religion is about as nutritious...

3. The Work of the Righteous

Matthew 10:40-42

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Roger Ray

In his book, Emotional Intelligence, Daniel Goleman recounts a story of an American soldier in Vietnam. His platoon was hunkered down in the rice paddies locked into the heat of a firefight with the Vietcong. The rice fields in Vietnam are often separated by an earthen beam, and on this day, a line of six Buddhist monks started walking along the elevated beam separating the field where the Americ...

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1. Demons in Our Modern World

Mark 1:21-28

Illustration

Roger Ray

2. Diet Soft Drink Religion

Matthew 10:24-39

Illustration

Roger Ray

3. The Work of the Righteous

Matthew 10:40-42

Illustration

Roger Ray

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