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Living Purely: No Tolerance for Lust
(1) How; (2) Why; (3) What....
Christian Living
Pray in Christ’s Name
Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full. —JOHN 16:24 Though we frequently end our prayers with “for Jesus’ sake,” we often pray for our own sake. Although we condemn the doctrine of salvation by our own good works...
Church History
History liberates us from the tyranny of the present
The study of church history also liberates us from what C. S. Lewis (1898– 1963) called “the idols of our marketplace.” Note Lewis’s argument for the need to read old books: Every age has its own outlook. It is specially good at seeing certain truths and specially liable to make...
Christian Living
The Obstacles of Meditation
Here is a summary of their responses to such obstacles: Obstacle 1: Unfitness or ignorance. Such say they cannot confine their thoughts to a particular subject. Their “thoughts are light and feathery, tossed to and fro.” Answer: Disability, ignorance, and wandering thoughts offer no exemption from duty. Your “loss of...
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History has meaning under God’s direction
Men and women are historical beings, immersed in the flow of time. History, as the first-century BC Roman orator Cicero rightly observed, is “the director of life.” One cannot escape the effects of history. Even to think nonhistorically for any length of time is a difficult task. We are part...
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Ezra’s Exemplary Confession
A great astonishment; A penitent brokenness; A little space....
Christian Living
God’s Name Is “THE LORD” (YHWH)
SCRIPTURE MEDITATION And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you. And God saidmoreover unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, the LORD God of your...
Christian Living
Shape Our Lives by the Authoritative Scriptures
The reading of the word is an ordinance of God, and mean[s] of salvation, of God’s own appointment. The Bible is this word, and God has given it to us, and appointed it to be read. —THOMAS BOSTON In John Bunyan’s (1628–1688) famed Pilgrim’s Progress, Christian is escorted into a...
Church History
Contagious Love for the Scriptures
The Puritans shape our minds according to the Bible. They loved the Bible, lived the Bible, sang the Bible, preached the Bible, read the Bible, memorized the Bible. They were thinking about the Bible every day. They were Bible-shaped theologians and Bible-shaped preachers. They just thought that way—that’s who they...
