February 2012
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“On October 8, 1732, a Dutch ship left the Copenhagen harbor bound for the Danish...”
– David Smithers
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20 Ways Satan May Seek to Destroy You This Week
My dear friend posted this on his blog:
Paul Tautges posted a helpful blog on the schemes of the adversary and how we need to be ready to stand.
“He is the serpent, the Great Dragon, Beelzebul, the ruler of this world, the prince of the power of the air, the evil one, and the adversary. He is Satan. And—if you are a follower of Jesus Christ—he hates your guts with a passion. Like a roaring lion...
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“The more you have of a rational knowledge of divine things, the more opportunity...”
– Jonathan Edwards
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Jonathan Edwards recounts his conversion
Jonathan Edwards had been in school for years, studying to become a minister. Despite this, he had never truly experienced God as he knew he ought if he were to enter the pastorate. One day while reading his Bible, he reflected on I Timothy 1.17, and though he would later never be able to remember the day or time, yet he could remember that this moment began a change in his life, even though he...
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An enlightening post by a dear friend and mentor →
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“For too long, we’ve called unbelievers to ‘invite Jesus into your...”
– Russell D. Moore, Christianity Today February 2012
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“You can get into heaven, my friend, without a lot of prayer. You can have a...”
– Floyd McClung
January 2012
18 posts
May God forgive us, not only of all the bad things we’ve done,
but for all the good things we’ve done with bad motives.
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Tomorrow does not depend on you. Neither did today.
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“We don’t believe in the power of prayer, we believe in the power of God...”
– Burk Parsons
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“I seen the Lord; the same I’ll never be. Some say they seen the Lord, but...”
– KB, Reach Records
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A prayer for three persecuted Christians →
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“For as God is infinitely the greatest Being, so he is allowed to be infinitely...”
– Jonathan Edwards
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Scotty Smith ~ A prayer →
If you’re not overcome with the grace of God, it’s about time you thought about it again.
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What if...
What if we took prayer seriously?
What if we actually took time out of our day in order to speak to God? Not just as a prerequisite to a meal.
But what if we use our meal as a time and occasion for prayer? I mean: what if while eating Chinese food, we remember the persecuted church in China, and pray for their continued faith? What if while we eat Mexican food, we remember the constant strife...
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Read on... →
I trust Crossway Publishers more than some of my friends.
And until January 15th, they are having a sale on all of their ebooks. $5.99.
If you have a Kindle or iPad or some other reader, I cannot share with you how much I endorse the sale this organization is putting on. I wholeheartedly encourage you to purchase one or a couple of books during this time. Go to “Books” then either...
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The cross itself is not the gospel, but you cannot have the gospel without the cross!
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New Year's Resolution?
When it comes to Christian teachers and leaders, it’s easy to find most of them polarized to the idea of New Year’s Resolutions. It may come across in a statement similar to…
If you’re going to make a change, why wait until the new year? Do it now!
But why must we make it a point of contention? Why can we not take hold of it and utilize for Christ and his purposes? After...
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A brief and clumsy prayer for the salvation of... →
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A prayer for Joy in the Creator →
Review of Russell Moore's Tempted and Tried →
December 2011
7 posts
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“Even in justification, many Christians who are perfectly orthodox in doctrine...”
– Francis A. Schaeffer, The God Who Is There. (Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 1968, 1982, 1988).
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Gospel:
Due to Christ’s payment on the cross, Christian, we owe more than we could ever pay back… but he never asked us to.
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A prayer resulting in fear and love of God →
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A prayer for rescue, temporal and eternal →
A prayer ~ Restore to the Uttermost →
Marantha, maranatha.
November 2011
2 posts
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So grateful for relationships.
So grateful for friends.
So grateful for girlfriend.
So grateful for love.
May these things serve to point me to the True Love who fulfills and fills over every desire for love I have ever had.
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A song we all know, but never get tired of →
October 2011
6 posts
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Sin is always nearby,
BUT Christ is nearer still.
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Sometimes, Mumford and Sons makes me somewhat...
Most of the time, though, Mumford and Sons makes me extremely happy.
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Worth remembering...
Remember:
It is much easier to disagree with people and what they say than it is to accept in humility the possibility that you could be wrong.
It is easy to find a sentence in a sermon that you deem unbiblical or improperly emphasized. After all, if someone’s talking for thirty to forty minutes, they’re bound to make a mistake somewhere. It’s easy to dismiss every true...
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For all coffee and Christ lovers out there... →
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“How deep the Father’s love for us…
How vast beyond all measure?”
“Serve Yahweh with fear and rejoice with trembling. ”
September 2011
3 posts
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Please, click this link for our Christian brother.... →
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“Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious...”
– Blaise Pascal
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May the grace of God overwhelm you today.
May it be an avalanche.
August 2011
7 posts
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Considering the Danger of Sleep, the Safety of...
There was a time in my life when I struggled with the idea of sleep. And when I say “time,” I mean about 19.5 years. And when I say “struggled,” I mean I despised sleep.
Yeah, yeah some people love sleeping in until noon, and having lunch for breakfast. I’m not one of them. I saw sleep as a curse, and the fact that I could not possibly keep awake for a week at a time as a flaw in humanity. The...
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Jesus alone has said with truth, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?!”
No man can say such a thing with any validity. Rather, we can only say “My God, my God, why have I forsaken you?!” And “My God, my God, why have you forgiven me?!”
Christ was delivered unto the wrath of God for our sake, and we now stand forgiven—righteous—because of God....
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