Idols

By Dwayne Hicks | June 3, 2015 |

  I have some carvings that I brought from Africa back in 1980. They are simply carvings of an African man. I have never thought about how that is pretty much how ancient idol worship works. In the days of idol worship, they people worshiped the hand carved or man-made idol. I don’t really get…

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The Worst Kind of Idol

By Dwayne Hicks | February 26, 2015 |

I have never been tempted to worship a carved wooden idol. I don’t get how people can worship things like that. I worship only the Living God Who Created everything I know, see and touch. He alone is worthy of my worship. I was reminded this morning that the idols that cause me to stumble…

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What And Who

By Dwayne Hicks | July 30, 2014 |

The object of my affection and my attention quickly becomes that which I value deeply. I may value my family above all my possessions. I may value my possessions over friends. The things I value can take the place of the Lord in my life if I’m not aware and working to keep Him in…

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Idols Are Idiots

By Dwayne Hicks | July 10, 2014 |

I used to think that people who had little wooded idols were absolutely stupid – I still think that. I’m not a believer in Karma, Gnomes, Astrology, etc. I believe in the God of the Bible, the One True God. He created all that I see and know. I don’t understand how people can take…

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Contrast

By Dwayne Hicks | June 4, 2013 |

There are things in my world that are “strikingly different from other things” in my world. There are people in my circles who are “night and day different” from one another.  The word contrast is a close “friend” to the word compare. To compare things, implies that there are attributes that are somewhat similar.  Habakkuk…

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