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The following material is provided for information purposes only. Any conclusions or opinions formed should be based on the principles as outlined in Acts 17:11. The material is intended for use as a witnessing tool and to keep you informed so you will not be unaware (Luke 21:34) of what is happening according to Scripture’s” However, when the Son of Man comes, will He find any faith on the earth?” (Luke 18:8b)
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"Does It Pay to Serve Jesus?"
McLaughlin, Heritage Church, McKinney, TxThis is a wonderful Message. Don’t miss it, you will be blessed! Pass it on to your Homebound Family and friends
Charisma News -- I’ve been overseas, hosting a conference in the coastal city of Barranquilla, Colombia. A group of indigenous men attended this event from the Guajira region, near Colombia’s border with Venezuela. Instead of Spanish they speak a language called Wayunaiki.
Residents of the Guajira region, known as the Wayuu people, are poor, and they struggle to get an education. Yet in this remote area a place most of us have never heard of—the Holy Spirit is moving powerfully.
One of the Wayuu men, Leider Espinayu, told me that the Bible was translated into Wayunaiki about 10 years ago. Today Leider is busy evangelizing and planting churches among his people. When I met him last Saturday, he proudly showed me a copy of the Bible in his language, and he read John 3:16 from it.
The verse says: “Anuu sukuaippa saalii wayuu sainküin mmakat süpüshua nüpüla chi Maleiwakai: Naapüin chi Nüchonkai waaꞌu, chi waneeshikai Nüchoin. Niasaꞌa chi eekai nünoujain nünain, eeꞌiranajaweerü naaꞌin nütüma Maleiwa. Nnojoleechi amüloulin süchikijee ouktaa, eejeechi nümaa Maleiwa süpüla kaꞌikat süpüshua.”
I wiped away tears as I heard these strange-sounding words. It overwhelmed me to think that God loves this faraway place on the coast of South America so much that He sent missionaries to an obscure tribe of people who speak this rare language. (Only 400,000 people speak Wayunaiki.) Today, many of the Wayuu Indians have come to believe in Jesus.
It reminded me again that the United States isn’t the center of the universe. And I’m comforted when I ponder the fact that one day everyone on earth will know Who is really in charge.
For the next several months we will be in a constant political battle between liberals and conservatives. I’ll be voting Republican because I can’t support a party that promotes high taxes, wide-open borders, abortion in the third trimester or transgender ideology in elementary schools.
But I don’t put my trust in political parties, nor do I think politicians can save us. Washington, D.C., doesn’t run the world, and neither do governments in London, Paris, New Delhi, Beijing, Ottawa, Tehran, Nairobi or Moscow. Just as God humbled King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, in an instant He can topple the most formidable global power centers.
Revelation 11:15 gives us a glimpse of the future when it says: “The kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ, and He shall reign forever and ever!” That means wicked men will try their best to push a satanic agenda of hate, sexual perversion, violence, corruption and economic
exploitation. They may make momentary progress, but God will eventually remove wicked people from power.
This’s why I’m not wringing my hands in fear because of pro-Marxist leaders in Colombia, or militant Hindu leaders in India, or extreme liberals in the U.S. who want to indoctrinate and mutilate children to change their gender. I sleep soundly every night because I know that no matter who is winning in this week’s polls, or who occupies the top positions of power in the world, or which billionaires are pulling strings behind the curtain, God will have the last word.
Just as God scattered the proud builders of the Tower of Babel, He will always oppose prideful, wicked leaders and yank the rug out from under their plans. Psalm 37:12-13 says it this way: “The wicked plots against the righteous and gnashes at him with his teeth. The Lord laughs at him, for He sees his day is coming.”
Jesus rules from heaven, and His gospel is spreading more rapidly than at any time in history. God’s Word is transforming Iran and other Islamic strongholds. Christianity is taking deep root in China. Even isolated tribes like the Wayuus in Colombia are embracing faith in Christ. Yet an estimated 7,400 people groups around the world still don’t have a gospel witness. Reaching them should be our top priority. As we head into this turbulent election season, let’s allow biblical principles to steer how we vote. But please remember that we don’t win the world for Christ though politics. The great commission of Jesus hasn’t changed. He has called us to pray and work until every nation, tribe and tongue has been invited to experience His mercy and salvation.
https://www.heritagechurchmckinney.com/messages/Does%20It%20Pay%20to%20Serve%20Jesus.mp3
WHEN VULGARITY BECOMES ORDINARY: WHAT THE F-WORD SAYS ABOUT US
The Christian Post – Sep. 13, 2026 -- Why does seemingly everybody have to be using the F-word these days?
You hear it almost everywhere. It pours from television, movies, music, podcasts, social media, sporting events, workplaces, restaurants, and everyday conversations. People who would once have been embarrassed to say it in public now use it repeatedly, sometimes almost unconsciously.
The word is f@#k.
It is, in my estimation, the foulest and most vulgar word in the English language. Yet what was once considered almost unspeakable has become a conversational commonplace.
How did this happen?
The word itself is quite old. Its precise origin is uncertain, though etymologists generally link it to Germanic words associated with sexual intercourse or breeding. Despite popular legends, it did not originate as an acronym such as “Fornication Under Consent of the King.”
For centuries, however, the word remained socially taboo. Respectable writers, publishers, broadcasters, and ordinary people generally avoided it. Samuel Johnson omitted it from his famous dictionary, and from 1795 until 1965, the word did not appear in a single English-language dictionary.
That very restraint gave the word enormous rhetorical force.
Profanity of this degree certainly has its shock value. But when such obscenity is repeated constantly, something curious happens — eventually, it loses its ability to rattle us.
So, the F-word has undergone an extraordinary transformation in our time.
Once primarily a crude term for sexual intercourse, it is now an all-purpose expression. People use it when they are angry, happy, surprised, frightened, impressed, disgusted, excited, or frustrated. It can function as a verb, noun, insult, exclamation, intensifier, or even little more than a verbal filler.
For some people, it has almost become a punctuation mark.
Perhaps the history of the F-word is not simply the story of how a sexual word became vulgar. It is the story of how a vulgar word became ordinary.
This raises a more important question: What happens to a culture when vulgarity no longer embarrasses it?
Christians sometimes approach this subject by asking, “Where does the Bible specifically say I cannot use this particular word?”
That approach misses the point.
The Bible does not provide a catalog of forbidden English words. Instead, it repeatedly addresses the character of our speech.
The apostle Paul wrote: “Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying” (Ephesians 4:29). He warned against “filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient” (Ephesians 5:4).
He told the Colossians to put away “anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth” (Colossians 3:8).
The late Phil Robertson, founder of Duck Commander and patriarch of the television show, “Duck Dynasty,” once told of a sound man on the filming crew who had listened to the Robertson family for long stretches while they were miked.
Eventually, the man approached Robertson and said he had noticed something unusual — he never heard them curse. He wanted to know why. That question opened the door for Robertson to talk with him about Christ, and according to Robertson, the man was eventually converted.
There is something really worth pondering in that story.
In a culture saturated with profanity, sometimes what a Christian restrains himself from saying can speak loudly.
But even here, Christianity goes beyond cleaning up one's vocabulary.
Jesus said: “A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh” (Luke 6:45).
Our words are not disconnected from our hearts.
That does not mean that everyone who slips and uses a vulgar word is condemned, nor does avoiding profanity make anyone righteous. A person can speak without obscenity and still lie, gossip, slander, boast, manipulate, or wound others with words.
Nevertheless, habitual speech reveals something.
If filthy words characteristically flow from our mouths, the answer is not merely to replace them with a nicer or more pleasant vocabulary. We ought to ask what is happening within us.
The F-word is especially revealing because of what our culture has done with it. We have taken one of the crudest expressions for one of the most intimate and sacred human acts between a husband and wife and turned it into an expression of rage, contempt, ridicule, excitement, frustration, and casual emphasis.
Something associated with sexual vulgarity is now used to describe almost everything.
That may represent liberation to some people, but I’m not convinced.
A rich vocabulary enables a person to express anger without obscenity, enthusiasm without crudity, disagreement without degradation, and humor without filthiness. When one vulgar word must carry nearly every emotional burden, language has not necessarily become freer. It has simply become poorer.
When obscene speech becomes so commonplace that we scarcely notice it, the problem is not merely linguistic.
It's spiritual.
Jesus said that the mouth ultimately speaks from the heart's abundance.
So, if a foul tongue is characteristic of your speech, you need something more profound than a jar into which you put money every time you curse.
You don't merely need to clean up your language; you need Christ to cleanse your heart.
You need to be born again.
LIVING IN GOD’S GRACE
God’s grace is endless, and He invites us to make it our home.
Related Scripture: , Philippians 1:1-11, Ephesians 2:8, Romans 5:2, 1 John 4:13, 1 Corinthians 1:30, Bible in a Year, Ezekiel 29-31, Philippians 1:1-11
Since all of Paul’s letters begin with an expression of God’s grace, we may be tempted to think that it is simply a customary word of greeting. But in reality, God’s grace is our foundation and the very atmosphere in which we live as believers in Christ. Grace is the undeserved favor of God. And according to Ephesians 2:8, it’s the means by which we are saved through faith. Romans 5:2 says that by our faith, we have “obtained our introduction … into this grace in which we stand.” Grace isn’t a one-time gift—it sustains us throughout life and into eternity. And it never ceases to do its work in us. That’s why Paul could confidently say, “He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus” (Phil. 1:6).
Sometimes it’s difficult to see righteousness in ourselves, because we know how weak and flawed we are. But even that awareness can draw us closer to Christ. If we’ve been saved, then the Lord lives in us and we in Him (1 John 4:13). Jesus is our righteousness (1 Corinthians 1:30), and He’s actively producing His fruit in our life as we abide in Him. This process, known as sanctification, is God’s grace working to align our character with the Son’s. So let’s stand firm in divine grace and trust God to complete what He started.
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ROSH HASHANAH - The Jewish New Year – The sounding of the Shofar
The Shofar’s blast is among the most ancient sounds in all of human worship. An urgent call to wake up, to return to God. The Days of Awe begin here, ten days of reflection and repentance before Yom Kippur. It points to Yeshua. Paul rights that at “The last trumpet” the Messiah will return and the dead will be raised (1 Cor.15:52). The call to repentance at Rosh Hashanah is the same call that Yeshua proclaimed: “Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.” The Trumpet that sounded over Sinai will sound once more – at His return.