Tag Archives: Satan

• Discerning the Devil

  Posted on October 9, 2017 by sdgale in 'CHOP Talk' Blog.

  The children’s Sunday School class could no longer use the room. The mold was too persistent. It would be cleaned off, even bleached away, and still it would appear. Finally, the paneling and drywall were ripped out. There was the source of the problem. Holes in the outer stone wall of the old church building […]

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• Christmas is about Satan, not Santa

  Posted on December 19, 2016 by sdgale in 'CHOP Talk' Blog.

    We find a number of explanations for Jesus coming into this world, the event we celebrate this time of year. Jesus Himself said that He did not come to be served but to serve and to give His life a ransom for many. Related reasons are scattered throughout the New Testament. In his first […]

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• Misplaced Faith

  Posted on April 7, 2014 by sdgale in 'CHOP Talk' Blog.

    My breakfast appointment was running late.  That gave me opportunity to talk with one of the servers at the restaurant we were meeting.  I had gotten to know her a little bit from previous visits, enough to know of her Roman Catholic background. With no other customers demanding her attention, the server and I […]

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• The Sermon Satan Didn’t Want My People to Hear

  Posted on January 20, 2014 by sdgale in 'CHOP Talk' Blog.

    Last week’s worship service at my church was well attended.  But I knew this week would be different. I knew it when I started study of the next passage in 1 Thessalonians, the book of the Bible I am preaching through.  It occurred to me that this is not something that Satan wants the […]

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• Satan Sightings

  Posted on October 21, 2013 by sdgale in 'CHOP Talk' Blog.

    You can’t read Paul’s first letter to the Thessalonians without detecting a bit of an edge.  Understandably so.  His opponents back in Thessalonica were questioning his character, his motives, and his conduct.  They were trying to turn the hearts of the new believers in the church he planted there against him. It is true […]

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