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When God Puts You On The Edge Of Your Seat
Life is not a lazy river. God is the kind of author that keeps the plot moving forward. He appears to like action thrillers. This is a point we should keep in mind so that we are not left thinking the world has gone out of control. Nothing is random. Your intense moments come from…
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A Strategy For When They Throw Stones
If you live long enough, someone is going to shame you. It may be the enraged leftist spitting on your car. It may be the cool shame of some leader that determines you’re not in the inner ring. You can even get this kind of thing from the self-righteous who see your shortcomings and publicly…
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Two Sons of David
2 Samuel 15 tells the story of Absalom’s conspiracy. And in this conspiracy we see both a fulfillment of God’s word to David that the sword would not depart his house, and we see a shadow of God’s gracious covenant with David that his son would sit on an everlasting throne. The Text – A…
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Our Sin Indeed Affects Others and Other Good News . . .
A common misconception today is that our sin only affect ourselves. Some have even ran this notion to the extreme, denying that Adam’s sin affected mankind. Herman Bavinck has detailed the Pelagian error as follows, “There is no such thing as original sin. Adam’s trespass negatively affected his descendants only in that it left them…
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A Word From a Dead Man About Reaping and Sowing
Saul was afraid. The Philistines had gathered at Shunem, and not a few of them. They prepared to war against Israel, and God had stopped speaking to Israel’s king. Saul’s heart trembled in his chest. He had not listened to God before. But now, he wanted to hear from his Creator. Like kings had done…
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Why God Is Sending Us Into Exile
People continue to ask the question, and it is a question very much worth asking, “Why did God put us here? You know, here. The place where up is down and down is up, women die on the front lines in combat while men win woman of the year. There is a a good answer to the…
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The Secret Art of Helping Your Man Not Be Stupid
One of the duties of the daughters of Eve is the duty of helping their man. Remember that the woman who fears the Lord enriches her husband (Proverbs 31:11). She reinforces him in many ways. And one of the most exciting ways she does so is when he’s about to make a fool of himself.…
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I Drank Beer with My Friends and the Word Did Everything
1 Samuel 19 Reformed thought and life has been on the rise in America for some time. It seems the New Calvinism which took shape years back is now old and wrinkled. The Young Restless and Reformed now have grandchildren. I recall many years ago seeing “Jonathan Edwards is my homeboy T-shirts” in the halls…
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Goliath Has Fallen
1 Samuel 17 One of the biggest burdens I feel as a minister of the Lord Jesus Christ is to get the church of God throughought these United States and beyond to grasp that Goliath has fallen. Christians live far too much like Goliath still bellows his blasphemies, when in reality he has been cut…