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Marty Martin
Jun 3, 20242 min read
GRACE “God’s Unmerited Favor”?
I was having a conversation with a friend of mine a couple of weeks ago, and the topic of current world events and how things have gone...
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Marty Martin
Feb 4, 20242 min read
I Surrender All
As I thought about the childhood memories of First Baptist Buna, the words of this hymn came alive in my spirit. This song was sung often...
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Marty Martin
Jul 19, 20234 min read
The Turning Over of Tables
God is not just some gentle, soft-spoken grandparent figure sitting up in heaven with casual indifference to what is happening here on...
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Marty Martin
Mar 8, 20232 min read
Seeing Is Believing, or Is It?
Seeing Is Believing. This phrase is well known to us all. It suggests skepticism; it implies that we will not accept the truth of...
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Marty Martin
Dec 13, 20222 min read
Failure To Thrive!!
Failure to thrive (FTT) is a medical term used to describe inadequate growth or the inability to maintain growth, usually diagnosed in...
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Marty Martin
Jun 20, 20222 min read
A Wounded Heart
This is a topic that is very prevalent in most churches today, but often it is glossed over, excused as just “life in a fallen world”,...
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Marty Martin
Jun 3, 20212 min read
A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Waste!!
A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Waste — you know the phrase, you have heard it. That is because the iconic slogan, dreamt up by the...
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Marty Martin
Jan 20, 20211 min read
What Is Your Vantage Point?
Most of these teachings originate from a thought, a phrase, a word or two from scripture that jumps out at me. This paper is a little...
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Marty Martin
Aug 3, 20202 min read
Some Good People will still go to Hell
This teaching came from concern over “Good” people possibly missing out on the goodness of God and sadly missing out on an eternity in...
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Marty Martin
May 8, 20201 min read
The Train of His Robe
This story has always been one of my favorite passages in the Bible. It had all the elements of a great movie: Power, reverence, physical...
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Marty Martin
Feb 29, 20202 min read
Why So Many Roadblocks?
This teaching was a tough one because I think it fair to say the most do not like the refining process, myself included. If we knew the...
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Sara Tristan
Jan 7, 20202 min read
Swimming in the Deep End
This teaching comes from my personal experience, which happens to be backed up by the scriptures. The years of wrestling with God over...
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Marty Martin
Nov 8, 20191 min read
How Quickly We Forget
This subject comes from personal experience and the honest confessions of fellow believers that I am walking out this spiritual journey...
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Marty Martin
Oct 17, 20192 min read
Who is the Man in the Pew?
This teaching comes from just an observation of men that I have had the privilege to attend church with over my lifetime; and this...
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Marty Martin
Sep 23, 20191 min read
To Boldly Go!
This teaching had a very slow start, and for years I carried in my Bible, a three-paragraph start to something that I thought would be...
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Marty Martin
Sep 23, 20191 min read
A Growing Weariness
Most of these teachings originate from personal experience, watching others go through trials and hard times, or just weighing biblical...
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Marty Martin
Sep 23, 20191 min read
At Peace with a Stubborn Heart
I do not think that there is ever a Christian who has lived, that has not had to deal with this issue in their heart from time to time....
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Marty Martin
Sep 23, 20191 min read
What are You Holding Back?
Most of these teachings originate from a thought, a phrase, a word or two from scripture that just jumps out at me. Strangely it usually...
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Marty Martin
Sep 23, 20192 min read
Is it Time for New Wine?
This teaching comes from my own struggles with the changes that God had brought into my life soon after returning to the Lord. I was...
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Marty Martin
Sep 3, 20192 min read
The Heart of the Matter
This teaching was different in the sense that the Eagle’s song had been running through my head for several weeks. My thinking was it is...
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Marty Martin
Sep 3, 20191 min read
What was He Thinking?
I was doing a little folder clean up and this teaching was found in one of my old notebooks. It basically was still in note format never...
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Marty Martin
Sep 3, 20191 min read
Will You Be Bitter
This teaching was a little odd in the sense that one third, may even half of it was formulated over ten years ago. And as God always does...
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