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Vacation at Smith Mountain Lake… Combs Style!
Ever feel like you need to take a break after you get back from vacation? That’s pretty much true for any Combs family vacation. We seem to have a real problem dialing it down a notch. But I guess that’s…
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Hey! I’ve been published.
Check it out! An article I submitted to Church Business Magazine was published in their June 2007 edition. They recently asked me to serve on their advisory board because of my background in church work as well as business. They…
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On Becoming a Father
“Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the…
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On Being Human
Psalm 8:4 (NIV) What is man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him? This past week my cell phone kept ringing with the caller ID “Name Unknown 777-777-7777.” I didn’t answer it…
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Why God Wants Our Worship
For the truth about God is known to them instinctively. God has put this knowledge in their hearts. From the time the world was created, people have seen the earth and sky and all that God made. They can clearly…
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Dried Up and Empty?
Some time later the brook dried up because there had been no rain in the land. Then the word of the Lord came to him: “Go at once to Zarephath of Sidon and stay there. I have commanded a widow…
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We Have A Great Church!
Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips. (Proverbs 27:2 KJV) “Sounds like you have a great church!” My new friend Larry said, as we sat in a booth at a…
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The Desynchronization Effect
The apostles and the brothers throughout Judea heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God. So when Peter went up to Jerusalem, the circumcised believers criticized him and said, “You went into the house of uncircumcised men…