Category: Church Blog
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A Puritan Prayer on the Lord’s Day
Give me in rich abundance the blessings the Lord’s Day was designed to impart; May my heart be fast bound against worldly thoughts or cares; Flood my mind with peace beyond understanding.
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Sermon Series on God’s Sovereignty in Salvation
Arminians argued for and defended the Rationalistic idea of free will against the great Martin Luther, just as Pelagius did against St. Augustine. Thus this ancient and condemned heresy was revived, and once again was infecting Christ’s Church.
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Liturgy for April 1, 2012
The feast on the Lord’s Day, April 1, 2012. Sermon: “I Thirstâ€: The Three Cups of Christ. Text: John 19:28-30.
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Our Church Shrinkage Seminar Part 2
But if Jesus was a pastor of an evangelical church today, would he drive people away with his teachings? Unfortunately, the answer is that most would reject them, and like the Jews, even vehemently hate them.
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Our Church Shrinkage Seminar Part 1
So if you want to be uplifted, affirmed and loved, “come as you are” to a megachurch. They’ll shower you with God’s “unconditional love” from the get-go with love songs to Jesus and with a “God is good all the time” mantra.
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Daily Lent Devotionals: Thursday, March 29, 2012
David’s response to his enemies is a prayer of imprecation. But what was Christ’s response to his enemies while he was dying on the cross? Did he pray for their destruction, like David prayed?
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Daily Lent Devotionals: Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Wine or Sour Wine, Â Gall or Myrrh: What Was Offered to Jesus?
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Daily Lent Devotionals: Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Jesus willfully suffered the ultimate humiliation—a spectacle of public nakedness before his enemies—in order that he may clothe us, not with flimsy fig leaves, but with his own “garments of salvation… the robe of righteousness.”
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Daily Lent Devotionals: Tuesday, March 20, 2012
those who believe in Christ, while suffering affliction and persecution in this world, can also look forward to God’s vindication when he returns to take them to heaven where they will worship him forever.
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Daily Lent Devotionals: March 15
So if Jesus had brothers (and sisters), where were they as he was being put to death? And why would Jesus commend his mother to his disciple John, and not to them?