Isaiah 6:11a — Then I said, “How long, O Lord?” ————— By Randy Alcorn, in 90 Days of God’s Goodness. For many, the most difficult problem with evil is its persistence. God “has set a day when he will judge the world with justice” (Acts 17:31). But why a future day of judgment? […]
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By John Stonestreet at http://www.breakpoint.org, August 9, 2016. ———————————- So, have you heard this one? Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are stranded at sea on a life boat. Who survives? America does! What a bizarre election year this has been. Now, despite the dire warnings from both candidates
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Martin Luther (1483-1546) Time magazine cover, March 24, 1967 ————————————- “When God wills to punish a people or a kingdom, he takes away from it the good and godly teachers and preachers, and bereaves it of wise, godly, and honest rulers and counselors, and of brave, upright and experienced soldiers, and of other
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By Rev. William Willimon in Pastor, pages 257-260, Abingdon Press, 2002 (adapted). (…continued) When Jesus wanted to change the world, he summoned a rather ordinary group of inexperienced, not overly talented folk to be his disciples. This is the typical way Jesus does revolution. Although to the world such means may seem hopelessly
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By Randy Alcorn; February 1, 2016 blog at: http://www.epm.org/ (…continued) Many years ago my wife and I were in a home Bible study in our church. The group had been meeting three months when someone mentioned in passing that one of the couples wasn’t married. I called the group leader and asked if this
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By Randy Alcorn; February 1, 2016 blog at: http://www.epm.org/ The most commonly quoted (and often misunderstood) verse in churches is no longer John 3:16 but Matthew 7:1, “Judge not.” Ironically, people who routinely violate what the verse is really saying quote the verse to justify their own failure to assist other people in following Jesus. Hence,
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THE FOOLISHNESS OF STEPHEN COLBERT by Dustin Messer Dustin Messer is a Boyce College graduate. He served as Editor-in-Chief of The Bantam Journal at Covenant Theological Seminary before graduating from Covenant in 2014. He and his wife Whitney live in the Dallas area and worship at Christ Church (PCA) in Carrollton, Texas. Dustin works at both Christ Church
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This meditation is the final of three from the apocryphal book of II Maccabees (See also Meditations #441 and #463). It tells the story of God’s judgement upon the wicked King Antiochus IV whose persecution of the Jews had caused so much suffering. King Antiochus (above), filled with anger, decided to
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From The Imitation of Christ (chapter 24) by Thomas a Kempis (1380-1471) In all things look to the end. How you shall stand before the strict Judge from whom nothing is hidden and who will pronounce judgment in all justice, accepting neither bribes nor excuses (Hebrews 10:31)? Oh, wretched and foolish sinner, who
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(…continued) Michael Barone was a writer for US News and World Report for eighteen years and is now the senior political analyst for the Washington Examiner. He has written numerous articles and a book about what he calls ‘Hard America and Soft America.’ He says ‘Hard America’ is the dog-eat-dog real
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