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Honoring the Festival of Lights this year, I offer this song entitled "Lit By The Power." In writing it I was identifying with the lamp that had no fuel for eight days and nights but was "Lit By The Power" of His Holy Name. Inasmuch as "ye are the temple of God, and the Spirit of God dwelleth in you," let us consider this Hanukkah season how Jesus has fueled and equipped us with His Holy Spirit to rededicate ourselves in service to Him; once He lights our lamp, it can never go out...
posted 11/29/10 |
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We have no alternative but to sanction same-sex marriage, because the Scripture is not the law of the land. If it were we would not do it. Unhappily, the U.S. Constitution, as much as we revere it, provides no help, especially in the way it has been interpreted as of late....If then same-sex marriage, why not polygamy - many wives - or better yet, polygny - plural marriage? Where can the line be drawn? If you have no line and no landmark, must not the other be acceptable as well?
posted 11/29/10 |
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The idea that God gives you in this life what you deserve was the predominant view of the Jews of Ruth’s and Naomi’s day....Although our goodness is relative to another’s badness, bad things do happen to good people. Or put another way: our faithful living will not preclude painful events entering into our lives. “Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery ordeal among you…” (I Peter 4:12). The inference here is that rather than be surprised, we should expect trials of our faith. Now there’s a wet blanket on much of our current religious thought...
posted 11/29/10 |
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“Slippery slope” is a term used to describe the treacherous terrain a church is on when it allows women to teach and preach in a local church. The charge made is that, at the bottom of the slope lies ruin, which is the natural outcome of direct disobedience to Scripture. In my view, this is a form of intimidation, and it short circuits critical thinking...
posted 11/26/10 |
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Bethlehem is highly significant for Christians, for the town is actually one of the golden links in the golden chain of our salvation - a chain which has divine election at one end and our eternal glorification at the other. In our mind’s eye, let us now make the journey to that town seven miles southwest of Jerusalem. Let us go to the ‘little town of Bethlehem’ and consider its significance in light of the Bible and think of its antiquity, geography, prophecy, and glory...
posted 11/26/10 |
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In the last three articles, we have considered aspects of the Internet that can have both positive and negative ramifications. Sadly, there is no escaping the subject that we now need to consider. There are no positive benefits, only sinful, dark, negative, and life destroying ones...
posted 11/24/10 |
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Christians generally hold one of two points of view regarding who are the people of God, and these views are in complete opposition to one another. The one view is that Israel, as the people of God, whether a nation or a distinct people group, is a permanent part of God’s plan...The other view is that this Israel is replaced by the Church, the invisible Church...Yet, there is a place for Israel at the end of time...
posted 11/19/10 |
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The entire message of Scripture is built upon the shema. The Bible leaves us with no doubt that man is no longer able to love or to worship God in the way that God originally intended. Why? It is because of our fallen and sinful nature, because of our corrupt heart.
How fitting and how necessary it is then that the Son of God should obey the demands of the shema on our behalf...
posted 11/13/10 |
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In 1618 in Holland, the Synod of Dort was convened by the Dutch Reformed Church. The lasting outcome of this Synod was five articles, easily remembered by the acrostic T.U.L.I.P. The articles are known as the ‘Five Points of Calvinism,’ and they give a very succinct summary of the Faith of the Bible. Let us then consider these five points – also known as ‘The Doctrines of Grace’ a little more closely...
posted 11/11/10 |
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After being a pastor of Christian churches for more than four decades I can understand the things that run through most people’s minds when they realize that their personal end is looming, and I can well imagine that Clint Eastwood might have an interest in the subject...The story line is plain—there is conscious life after death, and that life is far grander than anything a human living on the planet has ever experienced...However...
posted 10/29/10 |
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The purpose of this essay is to examine the impact of election on the doctrine of salvation. In order to do this it will be necessary to briefly examine views of original sin, guilt, infant baptism, and Covenant Theology.... Typically, Reformed people embrace two covenants—the covenant of works and the covenant of grace—both of which I maintain as well. But it is more complicated than that, and the conclusion emerges for many that baptism of infants, or young children, or even adults establishes the covenant of grace. Does this do justice to the biblical concept of baptism?
posted 10/19/10 |
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John tells us in Revelation that the ones coming out of the great tribulation “washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.” The Lamb’s blood made the robes white? What makes the blood of Jesus a cleansing blood and not a staining blood?
posted 10/9/10 |
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These things are written … John’s Gospel is in a category all of its own amongst human literature. John’s written portrait of the Saviour Whom he knew and loved so well is truly beyond compare. The only way of getting to know his Friend and Saviour is to read his Gospel and make its words part of our mind, thinking and very being.
posted 9/21/10 |
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In a cell facing years in prison for smuggling marijuana into the USA, I met an older addict who became a friend. We made a pact to search for God during our time in prison.... Sticking to this commitment I threw myself into an intense search for God and truth. Upon paroling, my search for truth continued – but was accelerated by LSD...
posted 9/21/10 |
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