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Although we did not know it when God called us out of the church, many worldwide and in previous generations have heard God call them out of the doing and busyness of “church life” in order to find Him as their Life. Since leaving I’ve been increasingly aware of the many parallels between the institution of school and the institution of the church. Read more “Being Institutionalized”
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I want to read to you from Matthew the twenty-seventh chapter, the description of the final moments of the life of the Lord, beginning with the thirty-fifth verse: “And they crucified Him,” just to show you how contrary the world is from the Kingdom of God. Read more ““And They Crucified Him””
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“However we possess this precious treasure in frail, human vessels of earth, that the grandeur and exceeding greatness of the power may be shown to be from God and not from ourselves.” 2 Cor. 4:7. Read more “Being Glass Bottles”
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Jesus clearly warned us to beware of the false and the best way of discerning the false is to know the True! When we know Christ as Truth, we will not so easily be deceived. Read more “Testing Fruit”
But Not As We've Known It
We often think of idolatry as being an idol that is worshiped by heathens in uncivilised countries, but John and Paul defined idolatry as being anything that takes first place or preeminence in our heart apart from God Read more “Idolatry… but not as we’ve known it”
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Fire is an element that is awe-inspiring and we know from a very young age that you DON’T PLAY WITH FIRE!!! Fire is something that is mysterious and even scientists find it hard to comprehend or understand. Read more ““With Fire””
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In our modern communities we often see warnings. Places are dangerous, so we are commanded to keep out, or medicines are dangerous, so we are warned not to exceed the prescribed dose Read more “DANGER!”
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“WHY should I be treated like this?” Much as I regret to do so, I have to confess that this has been the sort of question which from time to time has simmered within me when I have been under pressure. Read more “Don’t be Offended!”
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We can be so impressed by the acute sufferings which came upon our Lord at the time of His crucifixion that we miss one of the trials which may appear minor to us, but which was surely a great temptation. Read more “The Miracle Christ Would Not Perform”
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Leaving the royal city and choosing a lower road, the handsome prince quickly entered the deep passes which wound through the great mountains surrounding his homeland. Read more “The Prince and the Three Beggars”
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“There are some things in those epistles of Paul that are difficult to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist and misconstrue to their own utter destruction, just as they distort and misinterpret the rest of the Scriptures” (2 Peter 3:16). Read more “A Form of Godliness”
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One of the great dangers of life is that of losing sight of God’s great design in the details by which that design is worked out, and it has been well said that we entirely lose the value of any experience if we isolate it. Read more “The Divine Ministry of Delay”
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One of the greatest perils of the Christian life lurks in the common pathway of discipleship. It is the peril of being offended in Christ. Read more “The Blessedness of the Unoffended”
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All unannounced and mostly undetected there has come in modern times a new cross into popular evangelical circles. It is like the old cross, but different: the likenesses are superficial; the differences, fundamental. Read more “The Old Cross and the New”
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“The Lord said to him, Go, for this man is a chosen instrument of Mine to bear My name before the Gentiles and kings and the descendants of Israel; for I will make clear to him how much he will be afflicted and must endure and suffer for My name’s sake.” (Acts 9:15-16). Read more “The Man God Uses”
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It is a distressing fact that some Christians can believe in God’s saving power, but they cannot believe in His keeping power. They do not realise that He Who is the Giver of grace is also the One Who maintains us in His grace. Read more “God’s Keeping Power”
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“We were in our own sight as grasshoppers and so we were in their sight” (Numbers 13:33).
Of course they were. If men insist on calling themselves grasshoppers, other men are not likely to think of them as lions. Read more “Grasshopper Men”
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“Why do you say, O Jacob, and assert, O Israel, “My way is hidden from the Lord, and the justice due me escapes the notice of my God”? Do you not know? Have you not heard? The Everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth does not become weary or tired, His understanding is inscrutable. Read more “Waiting for God”
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Most of the world’s great souls have been lonely. Loneliness seems to be one price the saint must pay for his saintliness. Read more “The Saint Must Walk Alone”
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Now thanks be to God who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and through us diffuses the fragrance of His knowledge in every place. For we are a sweet fragrance of Christ unto God… (2 Corinthians 2:14,15). Read more “The Fragrance of Christ”