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The man near the pool of Bethesda didn’t use the word “stuck,” but he sure could have. For 38 years near the edge of a pool, it was just him, his mat, and his paralyzed body. And since no one would help him, help never came.

Crowds of people, despondent, dejected, one after the other, awaited their chance to be placed in the pool where healing waters bubbled up. Can you envision them? And more important, can you envision Jesus walking among them?

All the gospels’ stories of help and healing invite us to embrace this wonderful promise: “Wherever Jesus went, he healed people of every sort of illness. And what pity he felt for the crowds that came because their problems were so great and they didn’t know what to do or where to go for help” (Matthew 9:35-36 TLB).

My friend, remember Jesus sees you and you are never alone.

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It was the strangest picnic in American history I think. It was July 1861, on a hill in Northern Virginia, overlooking a stream called Bull Run. The Southern states had seceded from the Union, they’d attacked a Union fort in April, and now what the North called “the rebel army” was headed for Washington, D.C. Most people in the capitol thought the Union Army was going to mop up these Southern forces in a matter of weeks, and they wanted to see it happen as the Northern troops moved to engage the Confederates at Bull Run. They came from church in their Sunday best, the ladies and gentlemen of Washington arriving at the hill overlooking Bull Run in their carriages. They laid out their tablecloths, commenced their picnic, and started passing the fried chicken. Down below, the men in blue and the men in gray mingled their blood in the waters of Bull Run.

I’m Ron Hutchcraft and I want to have A Word With You today about “No Time For Picnics.”

How can people have a picnic when there’s a battle going on? That’s a question God must be asking of His own children—those who are supposed to be the soldiers in His army.

It’s a scene reminiscent of the day the ancient Jews were getting ready to invade the Promised Land, and a couple of the tribes asked if they could just take their inheritance on the safe side of the Jordan River and settle in there. In Numbers 32:6, our word for today from the Word of God, Moses asks them this haunting question, “Shall you sit here while your brothers go to war?” Well that’s a great question. How can you just settle into a comfortable little spot while there are battles to fight for God that require every one of us to be in the fight? A picnic while a battle is going on.

We were shocked that September 11, 2001, when nearly 3,000 Americans died in one day. Did you know that more than twice that many will die in America every day? On an average day in the United States, over 6,000 people go into eternity. Sadly, many—maybe most of them—will not be ready for eternity. Today in our world, over 150,000 people will go into eternity. Again, many with no relationship with Jesus and no hope of heaven. And there is a battle raging to get the Good News about Jesus to those folks in time!

There’s a small army of believers who understand that the battle is the responsibility of every one of us who belongs to Jesus. But, tragically, so many of those who could help rescue the spiritually dying are sitting on a hill with other believers, enjoying the view, passing the blessings, and playing no active role in the battle for human souls.

Yes, it’s true. God has to draw people to Him—spiritual rescue is totally a God-thing! But the same man who wrote the verses about us being chosen in Christ before the foundation of the world is the same Apostle Paul who was driven to get the Gospel to as many people as possible…even at the cost of his own life.

The battle for a lost world. You know where it begins? It begins with your own family, your own co-workers, fellow students, and friends. When it comes to telling them what you know about Jesus, silence is not golden. No, it’s deadly. They need to see Jesus in your life but they need to hear about Jesus from your lips.

You can’t just enjoy the fellowship of those who are already headed for heaven while so many around you are headed for hell! God has a place for you in this battle, my friend, and the battle is the Lord’s! For you, this is no time to be passing the chicken. It’s time to be passing the ammunition!

As that great missionary Amy Carmichael said, “We will have all eternity to celebrate our victories, but only a few short hours to win them.” And we are in those few short hours.

Repentance pulls up the weeds ... but restoration grows something new.  Today on BOLD STEPS, Mark Jobe concludes his series A Heart for God with more powerful truth from Psalm 51.  We’ll learn why we have to stop hiding and excusing our spiritual failures, and how to press in for full and lasting restoration.  Find the voice of your calling again ... listen to Bold Steps with Pastor Mark Jobe.

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The Bible’s somewhere under the mail. Nobody prayed before dinner. And your attempt at family devotions lasted roughly three Tuesdays. So how do you build faith at home when your family feels decidedly un-spiritual? Author and researcher Don Everts joins Dave and Ann Wilson on FamilyLife Today with surprising research on what makes faith grow—and some good news for imperfect families.

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When life doesn't make sense, we all have to decide how we'll respond to God. Those who refuse the beast's mark for Christ's sake will suffer, but the beast himself will end in fire. In this message, Pastor Lutzer calls us to yield to God and stay ready for His return. Would we have stood firm, or become compromised like the church in Nazi Germany?

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We all carry wrongs from our past that need to be made right. Onesimus was a runaway slave whose return raises a hard question: "Does the Bible condone slavery?" In this message, Pastor Lutzer shows how the Gospel reconciles, transforms, and saves. Why is it good news that Christ comes to dwell only in sinners?

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Erwin W. Lutzer is Pastor Emeritus of The Moody Church in Chicago, where he served as Senior Pastor for 36 years. He is a prolific author of over seventy books. A clear expositor of the Bible, he is the featured speaker on "Running To Win" and "Songs In The Night," with programs broadcasting on over a thousand outlets in the U.S. and across more than fifty countries in seven languages. He and his wife, Rebecca, live in the Chicago area. They have three grown children and eight grandchildren.

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We keep hoping the next person will finally be enough to fill us. A Samaritan woman comes to a well alone, worn out from looking for love. In this message, Pastor Philip Miller opens the story of living water. Discover why the thirst she kept trying to quench points to a deeper thirst in us all.

This is part one of the sermon, "The Samaritan Woman: Seeking Satisfaction Through People."

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00:03 – Satisfaction Through People: The trap of needing others to fill us.
01:53 – A New Identity Trap: Meeting the woman at the well.
04:27 – The Satisfier: Why Jesus is what her thirst is really after.
06:57 – Greater Than Jacob: The living water Jesus offers instead.
09:27 – An Unlikely Encounter: Why Jesus meets her where no one else would.
12:01 – Water Is Life: The desert image behind the whole conversation.
16:34 – So Many Forms: How satisfaction-through-people shows up in daily life.
18:58 – Attention and Approval: Is the hunger for it always the trap?

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Arguments long used to explain the choice for an abortion have now been used to explain the horrible choice to kill a child outside of the womb.

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