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All of me sounds so simplistic, but the difficulty in life is to get us to see the real us. Not the person we project our selves to be, but the real us. The hidden, real us is the one that God wants. We do a lot to make ourselves presentable. We should all put our best foot forward, but sometimes in life we are tempted to try to take something that we are not in the spirit world. He wants the real...

Some of the most profound wisdom of life is found in the writing of Job. It is superior to any other behavior and psychological text you can read. The question ask in our text from Job cuts through to the very essence of life. Can the rush grow without mire? Mire is dirty, sticky and smelly. Our text implies that the rush cannot grow without mire. We can rightfully ask the question if life is not...

The greatest compliment that God can ever pay humanity is expressed in this text. It is evidence that God is interested us; who we are and what we are. In all the ways God could have chosen to manifest Himself, he chose to do it in the human body. He honors us so that he had declared that our body is the dwelling place of His holy spirit. Our body is a reflection of God's glory. If God honors the...

In our text, Paul portrays himself as a soldier dressed appropriately for battle. He indicates that we as Christians, should also prepare for battle. In this brief bit of scripture, Paul paints a full length picture of a soldier prepared for battle. Most of the things mentioned are defensive in nature. They are for the protection of the body so that we can survive the battles of life. His image of...

The church is referred to in many ways in scripture. The bride of Christ, the temple of God, the people of God. More than a building, the Church is God's representatives in this world. In our text, the church is described as being birthed in the fire of the Holy Ghost. It was a Holy Ghost eruption that literally shook the place they in which they were meeting and affected the lives of many thousan...

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Bro. Hughes brings a message from Paul's letter to the Philippine Church.

Men are very important to God's plan. Statistics show that children of homes without fathers are significantly more likely to be at risk than those who are in two parent homes. The importance of a father in a child's life cannot be over stated. Simply put, we need good Men. We as men, have a purpose for being and existing. We are not just an accident, God has a purpose for each of us. The powerful...

We we were born again, we entered into a fellowship and into the possession of an assurance of eternal things. This journey also brings with it a fight. We are in an eternal war with the enemy. God has equipped us to rise to this fight and to be victorious. In our text, Paul identifies himself with the struggle that all of us endure in this battle of life. Paul tells us that the enemy we will figh...

Just when we think we have life figured out, something comes along to knock of off our stride. The question is: Can we handle it? Can we survive this? Ezekiel found out that we can survive. We can thrive even int he most difficult of circumstances. He was not born in captivity, but at a young age, he was taken into Babylonian captivity. Here was a people who had been uprooted from their homes and...

There is a lot of music in our world. The best songs are the ones that speak to us. The 17th chapter of Psalms is one that speaks to Bro. Hughes. There are far too many in the world who do not know where they are spiritually. This psalm was not written by such a man. Our text is written by a man who knows what he is about. He states no matter what others choice may be, his mind was made up: He wou...

We are in a war. Not only a war, but a dirty war because the devil fights dirty. He is dirty because he is deceptive. If he would come straight at us, most of us would not have a problem dealing with his assault, but he rarely comes that way. That is why, the bible tells us to put on the full armor of all that God gives us to protect us from the assault. Paul writes to a church that was under assa...

In Exodus, God sets the stage for Israel’s escape from Egyptian bondage. Pharoh realizes that Israel was growing and would soon outnumber his own people. Israel would soon get to the place were, if they could realize their strength, they would overtake Egypt. Pharoh decreed that all male Hebrew children would be killed to keep the population from growing. He also increased the workload. Israel's b...

The Great wall of China took 2000 years to build and served to protect China from invading mongols. The Berlin wall was erected overnight and stood as a barrier between East and West for 28 years. Both of these walls stood for many years. One was built for protection the other for isolation. One took many years to build, one was erected quickly. We read about another wall in the bible in Nehemiah....

We often think that the world is different today than in biblical times. That is not necessary the case. Our text was written while Paul was in prison. He was writing to a church that was in a culture of wickedness and immorality. The world at that time was ruled by Nero. As corrupt and vile as our world is, it pales in comparison to what was found at that time. Paul writes to a church that lived...

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Our text is one of the most interesting miracles recorded in scripture. Most of the miracles recorded were ones of compassion and healing. This miracle is difficult to understand until we understand why it was done. All of the men involved in this story would eventually play a great part in the future church. When Jesus spoke to them, they had failed at their effort of fishing. These were men who...

Living for God does not exempt us from trouble or human problems. Neither does it exempt us from many other disastrous things that happen in life. It rains on the just and the unjust alike. In our text says evil tidings. This phrase conjures up all sorts of frighting and bad things. When faced with the news of the day, it is easy to become overwhelmed. The best of men have to endure evil tidings....

None of us are here by accident. God has a purpose in every life. God has a divine plan, and a divine purpose for each of us. There are challenging situations in life. How we react to these situations can have eternal implications. In our text, the men that were sent to scout out the land, their observations had a great impact on them and future generations. The land was everything that God said i...

Sometimes life catches us unaware. No one enjoys being unprepared for events that comes at us. When this happens, we try desperately to get a handle on things. In our text the disciples were not at all prepared for what was about to happen. Jesus turns to the disciples and asks, how much would it take to feed all the people that came out today? We ask the same questions when we encounter situation...

God has always desired a close relationship with man. That was broken in the garden by sin. For 4000 years, God was separated from His creation until the crucifixion. After that, God could again touch His creation. In fact, God was able to inhabit his creation by infilling us with His spirit. When we are filled with the Holy Ghost, we are returned to the garden experience where we can have a close...

The Easter message is a simple one: He is Alive! Why seek you the living among the dead. The only thing that was left in the tomb were the clothes that were soaked in a 100 pounds of fragrances used to preserve the body. As we look at the promise of the risen Lord, we can bask in the fragrance of Grace and Mercy. In our text, the Psalmist cannot contain himself when he contemplates the greatness o...

In our text, Jesus took the disciples to the garden of Gethsemane to pray. He needed their help. He needed their encouragement. He needed them to stand with him. He was looking for their support as He struggled with the questions of his flesh. Yet in this crucial hour, those that He counted on the most failed him. After all that He had done for them in the years of His ministry, this is how they s...

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n our text, Paul talks about a commitment to moving forward. He acknowledges the past, but he looks to the future. He said that his focus was forward. Life is before us. He defines words of faith. We don't have to be unhappy, we don't have to be chained to our past and can move ahead to a future that has promise and possibilities. Paul writes words of improvement, growth, and progress. The words r...