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MercEmail 2013
03/13 Like A Persecuted Church
02/14 Valentine’s Day
01/27 Thank God for Abortion!
01/06 A Blank Page
2012 MercEmail Articles
12/17 A Perspective On Sandy Hook Elementary
12/06 Ski Free
11/11 Listen To Your Mother
10/31 Trick or Treat?
10/16 Would You Die For Jesus?
09/10 Elvis Presley’s Bible
08/07 Olympic Medal “Oar” Maybe Not
08/02 Olympic Fame or Shame?
07/26 Selective Outrage
07/04 Outlive Yourself
06/20 Shrewd!
06-06 When’s The Last Time?
05/18 Time Zones
04/27 Must The Young Die Too?
03/29 Here Am I, Send Aaron
03/08 Try Harder
02/15 Declarations of Love
01/09 Did You Think To Pray?
01/02 They Did It Again
2011 MercEmail Articles
12/12 Christmas on Sunday? How Inconvenient!
12/07 A Date That Shall Live In Infamy
11/12 Say It Ain’t So, Joe!
11/04 “Tebowing”
10/27 Some Must Show Through
09/09 It Is Enough
08/16 A $50,000.00 Goal!
08/02 Doubting Thomas, Really?
07/11 Unintended Consequences
06/18 Father’s Day
06/04 A Cure for the Hiccups
05/23 Yet Another Failure
05/02 Hey, Hey, Hey, Goodbye!
04/24 First Friday, Then Sunday, Finally Monday
03/23 All Dogs Go To Heaven
03/03 The Last World War I Veteran
02/19 Not Worth Wrestling About
02/09 Little League Baseball
01/18 The Perfect Dive -vs- The Perfect Life
2010 MercEmail Articles
12/26 A Matter of Time
11/30 Does God Pull for the Buffalo Bills?
11/14 Higgy, I’m Dying
10/29 Stop Praying!
10/12 Life on Mars
09/21 Free Tickets to the Fair
09/10 Pig!
09/02 Leaving Joppa
08/23 Batman & Robin
08/05 Imperfection
07/14 It’s Fun to Stay at the “Yyyyy…”
07/07 “Someone Killed God?”
06/28 A Scary Prayer
06/20 He’s Alright
06/02 Scroll Down
05/26 Hurt People Hurt People
05/20 It’s A Marathon, Not A Sprint
05/07 Toe Testers
04/20 Par For The Course
04/14 Daddy, I’m Engaged!
03/29 Two Seas In Israel
03/07 Heard But Not Seen
02/19 I Hear Voices
01/24 Aftershock
01/11 A Cross With Wheels?
01/04 Isn’t It Ironic?
2009 MercEmail Articles
12/17 Merry Christmas & A Happy Easter!
12/06 What Amazes Jesus?
11/16 2012: The End of the World?
11/02 Even In Mayberry
10/22 Give Him No Rest
10/12 He’s Watching You!
09/23 Great, It’s Wednesday Night!
09/17 How Could You Forget That?
08/25 Playing Church
08/03 Through Another Man’s Eyes
07/24 Same Class!
07/06 How Will You Be Remembered?
06/19 Father’s Day
06/05 It’s Magic!
05/21 Stop Dating The Church
04/27 The New Right Wing Pin-Up
04/21 A Pitcher’s Mound
04/13 “Houston, We Have A Problem”
03/31 The Root Of All Fun
03/15 Deceiving Yourself
02/26 Who’s Your Peninnah?
02/09 Two Lives, Two Legacies
02/01 You’re Not Fooling Anyone
01/14 Secularization
2008 MercEmail Articles
12/31 Hoping Against Hope
12/09 Newsweek or Newsweak?
11/27 How Much Did It Cost?
11/12 What An Invention!
11/05 The Day After
10/24 No God, No Worries?
10/16 If Your Right Pinkie Offends You…
10/06 What’s It Worth To You?
10/03 A Diamond Ring
09/16 Not So Fast!
09/03 Perfectly Normal
08/21 Almost
08/08 I Can Do All Things – Even 3rd Grade
07/28 According To The Rules
07/03 More Than Love
06/17 Girls Gone Mild
06/03 Chaste or Chased?
05/16 The Fred Factor
05/10 The Right Thing Is Soemtimes The Hard Thing
05/04 More Than One Way to Hit a “Homerun”
04/13 A Moron?
04/06 The Art of Saying, “I’m Sorry”
03/24 There’s More To Come
03/14 Children
02/24 Love Letters
02/03 Impulse Buyers
01/22 Canceling Church Services
01/11 The”Big Bang”
01/06 John 3:16
2007 MercEmail Articles
12/22 Your Name Is “Mud”
12/10 What Happened On The Yellow Brick Road?
12/02 The Golden Compass
11/30 TV In The Corner
11/10 Behave Like Good Christians
10/21 Vote For What?
10/04 Fighting Giants
09/03 Saved by the Bible
08/15 An Apple or a Pair?
07/31 What Good Can I Do?
07/30 Like Father Like Son
07/04 What If Adults Acted Like Children?
06/27 Does It Matter Who Does It?
06/17 Breakfast in Bed
06/07 Reading, Writing, and Recklessness
05/16 Life is Short (A Follow-Up)
05/14 Life is Short
05/05 Slick Slogans
03/28 A Resurrection Quiz
03/22 Never Give Up
03/06 We Were Robbed
03/04 A Skeleton In God’s Closet
02/24 The Best Sermon I Ever Whistled
02/18 Rabies
02/03 Grandma’s Slop Bucket
01/19 The Definition Of A Lie
2006 MercEmail Articles
12/31 Dancing In the Streets
12/21 That’s Not What I Meant
12/18 Do You Need A Doctor?
12/01 Is The Pope Catholic?
11/21 Dying Alone
11/08 Do I Have To Go To Church?
10/26 Coming Clean
10/08 A Pink Mansion
09/29 Burger King & 11 Cents
09/15 I Want To Ride With My Dad
09/04 He Died Doing What He Loved
08/24 Buried Treasure In Your Backyard
08/15 Batter Up!
07/31 The YMCA, YMcA, or YMA?
07/27 He Being Dead Still Speaks
07/13 Name Your Price
07/06 The Exclusivity of Christianity
06/21 A Vote Against The Bible
06/09 To Be Perfectly Honest. . .
05/27 A Time For Every Purpose
05/09 Preach The Word!
04/25 Spiritual Triage
04/11 Jesus Walked On Ice?
04/02 What Would You Do?
03/22 Coerced Unity
02/28 Type Casting
02/26 Hot As A Pistol!
02/21 Take Heed Lest You Fall
02/21 The Story of the Bible
01/11 My Favorite Bible
01/06 A Follow-Up To A Tragedy
01/04 What A Tragedy
2005 MercEmail Articles
12/05 Christmas (One More Time)
12/04 Separating Fact From Fiction
11/15 Are You Talking To Me?
11/02 All Work And No Play
10/23 Mount Moriah Experiences
10/14 My Heavenly Mansion
09/25 You-’r-e Out!
09/13 Her Favorite Flower
09/04 What’s A King To Do?
08/25 Conquering Sheep
08/14 He Knows Me
08/06 Christians Only
07/23 Just Think
07/14 There’s No Place Like Home
07/06 I Now Pronounce You Husband & Husband
06/26 The Spirit And The Bride Say, “Come!”
06/18 Roll Away The Stone
06/05 Except You Become As Little Children
05/25 Every Little Bit Helps
05/08 Memories of Mother
05/06 Do You Have An Accent?
04/23 Chased or Chaste?
04/15 Flip-Flop
04/07 Church Hopping
03/29 First Friday, Then Sunday, Finally Monday
03/16 A Game I’ll Never Forget
03/13 Admirer or Follower?
02/25 Post-Christian Culture
02/13 The Love of a Child
01/28 Play To Your Strength
01/18 More On Human Suffering
01/13 I Don’t Know
2004 MercEmail Articles
12/20 The ACLU Hasn’t “A-CLU”
12/10 Parents “On Strike!”
11/10 Never Satisfied
11/02 As You Go To The Polls
10/20 Reading Or Writing?
10/17 This Is Just The Elevator
10/09 Compartmentalized Religion
09/29 Excuses
09/06 Why Can’t They Behave Like Christians?
08/23 Bulls Eye!
08/18 The Facts of Life
08/04 The Victory That Overcomes The World
07/29 Planned Parenthood: T-Shirts for Sale
07/14 I Wonder What God Must Think?
07/04 Our Declaration of Independence
06/25 That’s Not What My Bible Says
05/19 Daddy’s Home
04/28 Jesus Is Coming Again
04/23 I Know How The Book Ends
04/12 And Yet…
04/07 Change Your Name
04/01 What Money Can Buy
03/22 Lord, Give Us More!
03/05 Are You A Perfectionist?
02/24 Funny, Isn’t It?
02/18 It Could Have Been Worse
02/11 What Shall It Profit?
02/06 Fast Times at Half Time
01/28 Cirrhosis of the Giver
01/22 When the President Speaks…
01/09 Life on Mars?
01/04 Pride Goes Before a Fall
2003 MercEmail Articles
12/14 Separating Fact From Fiction
12/04 It Was Just A Matter of Time
11/21 Yesterday’s Fringe, Today’s Center
11/20 Wal-Mart and the Good Samaritan
11/12 What A Tangled Web We Weave
11/07 Dirty Laundry, Dirty Souls
10/26 Red Light, Green Light
10/19 Foul Ball!
10/10 The Tongue Is A Fire
10/01 A Small Step Towards Sanity
10/01 He’s Back
09/13 Legislating Morality
09/02 Finally, He Came to Church
08/22 Striking Matches
08/06 Openly Gay Bishops & Morality
08/01 If I Should Die Before I Wake
07/22 Your Influence
07/06 Excuse Me Lord, Do You Mind…?
07/01 When Should I Help?
06/21 A Dedicated Father
06/05 Don’t Fence Me In
05/23 The Key To A Happy, Successful Life
05/13 Will A Man Rob God?
04/30 Modern Day Faith-Healers
04/21 Double Homicide
03/14 Be Sure, Your Sins Will Find You Out
03/07 You Have A Friend In Jesus
02/27 Won’t You Be My Neighbor
02/19 Mother Nature
02/14 Helping Or Honking?
02/05 Defining Down Deviancy
01/31 Don’t Blink, You’ll Miss Something
01/14 “Yogi-isms” And The Cross
01/03 Serving God For Nothing
2002 MercEmail Articles
12/27 Hide & Seek
12/12 When Being Right Is Wrong
12/02 Fact Or Fiction?
11/22 The Chicorelli Brothers
11/15 Unanswered Questions Or Unquestioned Answers
11/09 Any Responses?
10/30 Brokenness
10/22 The Burial Box of James
10/09 Jesus Is Beautiful
10/01 At the Foot of the Cross
09/25 The Mission of the Church
09/17 Sidewalk Supervisor
09/13 In Remembrance
09/13 He’s Coming Again
08/27 Harmful to Minors
08/22 Junk? Not So Fast
08/14 Too Close For Comfort
08/07 Well Done
07/19 Jesus Is The Answer
07/08 One Nation Under God
07/01 40 Years A Preacher’s Kid
06/24 Consider The Ant
06/10 Good Advice For Life
06/03 I Am Only One
05/20 I Have A Drug Problem
05/13 My New Golf Partner
05/06 Wants -VS- Needs
04/29 Count Your Blessings
04/22 I’m Going To Be A Preacher Someday
04/15 How To Kill A Preacher
04/01 Sex Education
03/25 A Squeak In The Pulpit
03/18 Want To Know Your Bible?
03/11 10 Reasons Why I’ll Never Wash
03/04 Look Before You Leap
02/25 Crying Babies At Church
02/18 Does This Describe You?
02/11 What The Church Needs
02/04 ”Verbicide”
01/28 Dying To Live
01/21 Hindering The Gospel
01/14 Views From The Pews
2001 MercEmail Articles
12/31 Think And Do Better
12/17 Definitions
12/11 Whoo, Whoo!
12/04 What If?
11/26 You Are Valuable To God
11/18 Jesus Is Everything We Need
11/14 Where Would Your Dog Go?
11/05 Standards of Conduct & Faith
10/30 Who Are You?
10/22 Who Left The Lights On?
10/16 Is God Exhausted?
10/08 Cookies, Judgment, & Mercy
10/04 A God Who Runs
09/24 Bear Bait
09/20 Where Is God?
09/12 A Prayer For America
09/04 Dear Mom & Dad
08/29 The Perfect Church
08/22 How Old?
08/15 Mood Rings
08/06 The Circus Is In Town
07/31 Say What You Mean
07/23 An Old Lady’s Poem
07/19 Jonestown Revisited
07/08 Playing Blocks & Focused Living
07/05 The Price of Conviction
06/19 Church Attendance
06/12 Captain Of My Own Soul
06/05 Now What’s The Matter?
06/04 Thanks, I Think
05/28 Remember Lot’s Wife
05/21 Don’t Forget Gethsemane
05/21 I’m Kind of Pretty Much Sorry
05/14 A Slow Death
05/07 I’d Like To Introduce You To My Friend
04/30 Nip It In The Bud!
04/23 The Flea & The Elephant
04/17 Nicknames
04/10 What Does It Profit?
04/02 Little League, The Wall Street Journal, & God
03/26 Liver & Sin
03/19 The Cold Within
03/12 Yes Sir, Colonel
03/05 Atheists In Foxholes
02/26 So That’s Who You Are
02/19 Are You Okay?
02/12 Just The Facts
02/05 Winter Coats On A Summer Day
01/29 The Fear of the Lord is the Beginning of Wisdom
01/22 Twas the Night Before Jesus Came
01/15 Children: How Much Do They Cost?
01/08 Imperfection In God’s World
01/01 Thanksgiving
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Paul Isenberg
July 18, 2010 at 6:37 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Hey Steve I use your lessons alot, I was wondering if you ever post any ice breakers or preachers jokes by category so we could follow them out.
EDGAR C BEARD
December 13, 2011 at 9:28 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I WOULD LIKE TO BE PLACED ON YOUR MAILING LIST FOR DEVOTIONAS AND BIBLE LESSONS AND I KNOW SEVERAL FOLKS WHO I FEEL WILL WANT TO DO THE SAME..
HOW DO I DO THAT AND HOW DO I LET OTHER FOLKS KNOW ABOUT YOUR INFOMATION ???
Steve Higginbotham
December 14, 2011 at 10:24 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Hello, If you would like to be notified whenever I write a new blog article, just hit the RSS feed button at the top of my page (right next to the twitter and facebook buttons). If you would like to receive a weekly email devotional article from me, all you have to do is send a blank email to MercEmail-subscribe@yahoogroups.com.
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