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Money has its place, but keep it there!
As Christians, we should be the most joyful people in the world.And honestly, many Christians are. But not every Christian. Why? I am sure there are many different reasons…
A Passage Into Glory
"If we consider death simply in itself as an enemy to nature, there is nothing in it for which we should desire it: but if we consider it as a medium, or passage into glory, yea…
But One Way...
"Yet the great part of people are most unworthy to be helped if they be judged by their own merit. But here Scripture helps in the best way when it teaches that we are not to consider that men merit of themselves…
All means all...
"All things work together for good to them that love God." Romans 8:28" Observe what he says. Make no exception when he makes none. All! Remember he excepts nothing. Be encouraged in your faith, give glory to God…
The One Grand Distinction of Great Men
“Those that extol men above measure, strip them of their true dignity. For the grand distinction of them all is … that they gain disciples to Christ, not to themselves….
Some forms of stupidity...
J. Budziszewski:"I have already said that everything goes wrong without God. This is true even of the good things He’s given us, such as our minds. One of the good things I’ve been given is a stronger than average mind…
How to Know You are a Sinner
"You will never make yourself feel that you are a sinner, because there is a mechanism in you as a result of sin that will always be defending you against every accusation. We are all on very good terms with ourselves…
But now...
Commenting on Romans 3:21 where Paul writes, 'But now the righteousness of God has been manifested...' Martyn Lloyd Jones says, "There is an aspect of faith of which it is true to say this, that faith is a kind of protest…
A means of finding all one's hope
“The faith of the individual must be seen as having no value in itself, but as discovering value wholly and solely through movement towards and committal to Christ. It must be seen as simply a means of finding …
Four things you must know
Here are four things you must know and you must help the people you are discipling know:" 1. Know the Gospel itself (stay focused on Jesus)…
How to change, part fifteen
The way God has changed believers should change believers.After reminding us in Colossians 3:1 of the fact we have been raised with Christ, Paul goes on to show…
Watch out!
“According to the New Testament, greed qualifies as one of the most serious of sins. The earliest Christians were told not just to avoid greed, but to watch out for it…
How to change, part fourteen
I think we’ve all had times where we knew what to do but we didn’t really know how to do it. And. Sometimes that can be frustrating. Obviously. Knowing what to do, but not knowing how…
A Short Course in Old Testament Prophecy...
"I've mentioned to you that God knows everything and that within His knowledge is the knowledge of all history past, present and future. And not only that, there is the purpose of God working it out in fact so that…
How to change, part thirteen
In Paul’s day, some people thought the body was bad. And physical things were bad. Which meant if you were going to free your soul to really worship God you had to punish your body and stay away from certain stuff…
How to change, part twelve
If we are going to grow spiritually we have to reject wrong ideas about growing spiritually. Which, sounds tough, I know, but it's real. There are very wrong ideas about spirituality that will do us serious damage…