As an addendum to this week’s sermon on faithfulness, today’s post is taken mostly from the my book, The Life God Honors. The foreword was written by my friend, Brian Blair, of The Republic Newspaper. He writes: “When I first began watching ESPN’s Sports Center a few years ago, the NBA highlight reels transfixed me. The nightly wrap-ups featured more dunking than an Oreo cookies-and-milk extravaganza. Since I was...
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As a follow up to this Sunday’s sermon, I want to share a true story with you. In the sermon I talked about my father and his standards of excellence in his chosen field of tuning and restoring pianos. What I did not mention is that he learned those skills from a blind man. At the age of 12, my father, Bob Robbins, was hired by a blind piano tuner and taught the craft. Now, I learned some of that craft from my father as a teenager, and...
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In yesterday’s sermon I spoke of the power of attitude. Here’s an important addition to the discussion. It is in your power to choose your attitude. Many people think that their circumstances dictate their attitudes, but this is not true. You are a creature with amazing God-given power to choose your thoughts, attitudes, and even emotions. Yes, thoughts, attitudes and emotions will come and go, but to simply give in to whatever...
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Sometimes I hear people say, “Our church is under attack; we need to pray.” Well, here’s two obvious observations about that. First, most every church – if they are doing the work of the Kingdom at all – is under attack all the time, not just some of the time. We are, after all, engaged in a titanic conflict that has been waged since the Garden. The entire Bible from Genesis to Revelation speaks of a spiritual war that is being fought...
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The popular culture in America is becoming increasingly humanistic. The formal definition of humanism is, “An outlook or system of thought attaching prime importance to human rather than divine or supernatural matters.” Humanism, then, has its own set of philosophical doctrines, most of which are in direct opposition to the teachings and doctrines of the Holy Bible. Listed below are a few philosophies of humanism that are increasingly being...
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Author: Andy Robbins In 2005 Stephen Spielberg released his remake of the H.G. Wells story, War of the Worlds. This story, of course, is fictional. But the continuing saga of the war of the worldviews is not fiction. As Christians, we face daily pressure to adopt worldviews that are in stark contrast to how our Savior would have us think. How should we view difficult social issues such as euthanasia, homosexuality, abortion, capital punishment,...
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