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Biblical exposition, cultural critique, and prayer letters.
Israel Is Israel
“I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew” (Romans 11:1-2).
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The Christian’s Secret of a Happy Life Is Now Available
Kristin’s edition of Hannah Whitall Smith’s The Christian’s Secret of a Happy Life is on Amazon, and my Foreword is here to read at no charge.
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Things Revealed and Things Kept Secret
“The secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law” (Deuteronomy 29:29).
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Put You in Remembrance
“Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth” (2 Peter 1:12).
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A More Sure Word
“We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts” (2 Peter 1:19).
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Declaring the End from the Beginning
“Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me, Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:” (Isaiah 46:9-10).
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Berean Manipulation
To the Berean-Minded Christian, A pamphlet came into my hands this week, one sheet folded into six panels of close type, with no publisher on it, no address, and no date. Its four footnotes cite a magazine article from June of 1966 and another from April of 1963, so it is newer than its citations…
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The Respectable Way Out
A contracted worship leader began a forty-day fast because he wanted the church’s worship leader and not his wife. What the Caleb Flynn trial exposes is not ordinary hypocrisy but a religion kept in working order and pressed into the service of the thing it forbids.
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A Father at the Altar
The truest measure of a father’s love is not the estate he leaves his children, but the altar he keeps for them. A father cannot govern another heart, cannot purchase a child’s salvation, and cannot command tomorrow. He can bring that child, by name, before the God who searcheth the heart.
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The Whole Family
In the Bible a family is a people named of one father, set in God’s order, holding one inheritance, and redeemed by a kinsman; and every one of those marks is fulfilled in the family of God. “Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named” (Ephesians 3:15). The Record Page Most families…
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