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apologetics, deception, Easter, evidence, faith, resurrection
Tomorrow is Easter. I will preach on the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead for the umpteenth time. I am getting up there in years and I have been a follower of Jesus of Nazareth since 1972 and a minister of the gospel most of the years since then. My text for tomorrow’s message entitled Life’s [...]
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CXVI, Easter, Holy Week, hymns, Justin Taylor
I came across this offer on Justin Taylor’s blog today. I downloaded the files and listened to their rendition of O Sacred Head. Lovely. Hope you like it. CXVI: “We’re giving away an entire album again in celebration of Easter! . . . We’ve even including a song off our upcoming album, Re:Hymns. Derek Webb [...]
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communion, Glorious Freedom, Good Friday, Richard Sibbes, sacraments, sanctification
Puritan Richard Sibbes, in his book Glorious Freedom, offers excellent counsel for approaching the Lord’s Table in a worthy manner. The entire book constitutes his exposition of 2 Corinthians 3:18, a most important New Testament text on the doctrine of sanctification. I commend this to you in preparation for our Good Friday observances in growth [...]
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Advent, Advent Conspiracy, Christmas, consumerism, giving
I only learned of this grassroots movement with more than 1,000 churches in 17 countries participating just last week in an article in the current issue of Randy Alcorn’s Eternal Perspectives magazine. Check out this brief video for something worth grappling with this and every Advent season.
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Advent, Christmas, incarnation, worship
Last Sunday, November 27, marked the beginning of Advent, traditionally the beginning of the church calendar year. The word advent comes from the Latin adventus meaning coming. Advent focuses our worship for the four weeks which precede Christmas on the significance of Christ’s incarnation. Christians began to organize worship around various seasons of the year [...]
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Christmas, Christology, giving, incarnation, riches, spiritual blessings, stewardship, substitutionary atonement
Last night’s Christmas Eve message from 2 Cor. 8:1-9 is now on the web. You can listen to the audio here. Here is the quote from Octavius Winslow (1808-1878) with which I closed the sermon: And shall we not pause and bestow a thought of admiration and gratitude upon Him, who was constrained to stand [...]
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Christmas, Joy, stress
It occurred to me that many people including Christians can feel quite stressed, even depressed, around Christmas. Sometimes financial pressure, hectic and difficult traveling, strained relationships, and unexpected problems may contribute. We’re in good company! Seems to me there’s a good chance Mary and Joseph experienced financial pressure, inconvenient obligations and traveling hassles, and unexpected [...]
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Advent, Christmas, worship
Tomorrow, November 28, marks the beginning of Advent, traditionally the beginning of the church calendar year. The word advent comes from the Latin adventus meaning coming. Advent focuses our worship for the four weeks which precede Christmas on the significance of Christ’s incarnation. Christians began to organize worship around various seasons of the year as [...]
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Easter, waiting
I love books. Just one visit to my house will confirm that fact. I love re-reading and re-living a beloved novel. I love the pages which have become wrinkled with interest and vigorous page-turning. I love the crease in the spine which allows the book to lay flat, opened to my favorite scene. I love [...]
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friendship, Good Friday, salvation
Today’s entry, April 3, in Octavius Winslow’s Morning Thoughts, leads with Proverbs 18:24. There is a friend who sticks closer than a brother. Making application to Jesus, the friend of sinners, Winslow writes: There is no sympathy, no love, no gentleness, no tenderness, no patience, like Christ’s! Oh how sweet, how encouraging, to know that [...]
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