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Experimental preaching must be discriminatory
Experimental preaching must be discriminatory. I am not referring to discrimination on the basis of skin color or ethnicity. Neither am I speaking of any form of bigotry and hatred. Discriminatory preaching aims to distinguish the Christian from the non-Christian so that people can diagnose their own spiritual conditions and...
Church History
Calvin The Educator
Reason #12: Calvin models for us a proper recognition of the importance of education—especially seminary training, which is the backbone of the Christian enterprise (2). David Hall provides an apt summary of this point: Calvin broke with medieval pedagogy that limited education primarily to an aristocratic elite. His academy, founded...
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Assurance May Take Time to Develop
Assurance is not the same thing as faith, but it’s closely related to it. Assurance grows organically out of faith like a plant out of a seed, or a flower grows out of a plant and a root. Assurance then pertains to a believer’s present degree of faith. Weak faith...
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Jesus is the way back to God
I am the way, the truth, and the life. — JOHN 14:6a What did Jesus mean when He said, “I am the way?” The way to whom, to what? He meant the way to God the Father, the way to eternal life. Children, you remember that when God created Adam...
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Christ’s Love in Heaven: Utopian Perfection
There is surprisingly low emphasis on heaven in the history of the Christian Church. Even in some of the Reformation times and the greatest systematic theologies written, it’s rather shocking that even Calvin has only two pages out of 1200 in his theology on heaven. So, it’s not just our...
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Christ’s Ascension for Us
The ascension of Jesus Christ does not stand out as prominently in the bible as does the resurrection. And thats probably because the resurrection is the grand turning point when our LORD moved from the state of humiliation to the state of exaltation and is raised again for our justification....
Christian Living
The Indispensability of the Spirit
Contagious Christian living brings many blessings, but let us always remember that the Holy Spirit is absolutely essential not only in empowering us to live contagiously but also in making that contagiousness effective by blessing others through our lives. Many believers forget that today; they write entire books on how...
Christian Living
Who Should Pray?
Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near: let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will...
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God’s Steadfast Love
Psalm 103 is a very special psalm… Spurgeon compared it to the Alps and said this psalm is like the highest mountain among the Alps. And then he said, “It’s also the apple tree among the trees of the wood and the golden fruit of a beautiful flower....
