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Sunday, August 14 2011
You know the Bible stories. You know the Bible facts – 66 books, two testaments, two primary languages, four gospels, etc. You likely have put portions of it to memory, but do you know the Bible’s purpose? A.W. Tozer helps us here. The sacred page is not meant to be the end, but only the […]
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Sunday, August 7 2011
This is the will of God, your sanctification (1 Thess. 4:3). People often ask, “What does God want me to do? What is His will for me?” His will for every believer is sanctification. Sanctification is that daily practice of putting off sin and putting on righteousness. It is a major theme of every New […]
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Sunday, July 31 2011
There is no time to waste on this earth. Every day presents us with the opportunity to advance the spiritual kingdom of our Lord and to contribute in ways great and small to the salvation of the lost and the strengthening of the found. We need more believers like Jonathan Edwards, the American preacher and […]
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Sunday, July 24 2011
One of the most difficult concepts for us to accept is our own sinfulness. We all know that we are not perfect, but that really is not the crux of the matter. The fact is sin is my primary problem, and that’s hard to swallow. Consider author and counselor Ed Welch on the subject: Sin […]
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Sunday, July 17 2011
Full of grace and truth, that’s how John described our Lord Jesus Christ in John 1. When we say somebody is “full of…” we usually do not intend it as a compliment. When John says this about Jesus he is remembering his experiences with the Lord. At every moment of every day what you could […]
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Sunday, July 10 2011
Scripture admonishes to “Worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness” (Ps. 29:2). On this text the commentator Matthew Henry finds “The rule of the performance of religious exercises; Worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness, which denotes, (1) The object of our worship; the glorious majesty of God is called the beauty of holiness 2 […]
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Sunday, July 3 2011
From his headquarters as Commander-in-Chief, George Washington directed the following prayer to the governors and states of the new nation on June 8, 1783. His reference to the recipients has been replaced by the words “United States.” Otherwise the words and spelling are those of George Washington. I now make it my earnest prayer, that […]
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Sunday, June 26 2011
God commands our sole worship of Him, and God commands the manner by which we worship Him (John 4:23). Matthew Henry put it this way, It concerns us to be right, not only in the object of our worship, but in the manner of it. Our worship must be heart and mind driven not merely […]
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Sunday, June 19 2011
Happy Father’s Day! It’s great being a dad. We get to hold our little girls then watch with joy as we give her away to a godly young man. We get to nudge our little guys then watch as they push forward in athletics, education, business or any of their dreams. We give our girls […]
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Sunday, June 12 2011
The Lord is My Shepherd begins the 23rd Psalm, pregnant words that fill the believer with hope and help. The psalm concludes with All the days of my life…forever. In between these bookends are the workings of the Shepherd on behalf of the sheep. One who knows the voice of his Shepherd experiences this relationship […]
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