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Spending Words
The wise man Moses prayed that the Lord would teach us to number our days. In similar fashion, we need to number our words. We will only speak so many of them. God knows the exact number. We do not. But we do know that our tongue will fling only so many words out of…
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If You Do Not Go Up With Us
Our Christian growth often stalls because we forget that the power of Christ rest upon us. We know which direction we want to go. We have counted the cost involved in order to get there. But our progress is not what it ought to be because we have forgotten what Moses remembered in the wilderness.…
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A Poor and Contrite Spirit
One of the temptations that naturally comes with God’s blessing is that of thinking that you got that blessing by your own strength. We imagine that the blessings are just out there for the taking, and, hey, I woke up early, I stayed up late, I used my resources in the right way and that’s…
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How to Avoid Developing a Complex
Not all complexity is bad. Complex wines are enjoyable enough. Complex math problems produce some very helpful tools. But we are not to be consumed with the complex, or taken captive by it as if it were always a good thing. A man enamored with the complex will soon find that he has a complex. He does…
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A Feast of Fat Things
Isaiah said, “And in this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things” (Isaiah 25:5). The mountain to which Isaiah referred is the mountain to which we have come. Hebrews says that we are come “unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly…
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Aim at Heaven
The Christians who are resolved to make a mark for Christ in this world must be commended for their resolution. You need only open your eyes for a second to see the futility and folly all around us. Amid that folly, our goal is to see salvation spring up from the ground. We anticipate the…
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He Is No Stagnant God
Too often we imagine a stagnant God. We assume that if we come to him all will be bubbling streams and chirping birds on an English countryside. But this is far from what Scripture tells us about our Consuming Fire. Jesus shows us the Father. And there he is one moment touching lepers; the next…
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Be Converted, O Canada
One year ago, Canada established a law that bans conversion therapy, that is a practice or service designed to get men (who are thinking and acting like women) to think of themselves as men and conduct themselves sexually as men; and the same goes for women (who are thinking and acting like men). You may…
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Like a Knocking Widow
One of the bigger slices of humble pie we have to eat is that we don’t do nearly enough with the gifts we are given. Now this is humble pie, not condemnation pie. You’re not permitted to eat any cursed-on-a-tree pie. Jesus finished that one off for you. But we do have to face up…
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Stay Low and Hustle
When God’s blessings abound, two temptations crouch at the door and would rule over us. The first is the temptation to pride. Moses warned Israel that when they entered the Promised Land and their goats and gold multiplied, they would be tempted to say that their own power had gotten them their wealth (Deuteronomy 8:17).…