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Getting Tough with my Readers
You know that God gave you functional grey cells somewhere within your cranial cavity, but they are sleeping, and you wouldn’t want to disturb them when they need rest so badly. Continue reading
Posted in A Proverb for Today
Tagged Chick-fil-A, emotionalism, laziness, Proverbs, Scripture, tear-jerker, thinking
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Pray for Pastor Nadarkhani
He may face the death penalty in Iran. If you wish to contact the Iranian embassy in London, follow this link. Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also … Continue reading
Gluten-Free Music — When Standards Clash
This post isn’t really about music, it is about love. If love is our guide, it will kill the so-called “worship wars” that many churches suffer. We can’t feed “spiritual gluten” to those who will be made ill by it, and if pastors and worship leaders push music on those who believe that music to be sin, they are themselves sinning, no matter who is right and who is wrong about the music in question.
“If we let love be our guide, all will be safe.”
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Posted in Christian Music
Tagged authority, coeliac, conviction, Kevin Bauder, leadership, love, Mark Snoeberger, music, preference, worship
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Motivated by the Promise of His Coming (part five)
Series Introduction Motivated by the Promise of His Coming (part five) Acts 1:9-11 And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight. And while they looked stedfastly toward … Continue reading
Web Wanderings This Week
A few links I noticed this week. Does anyone anywhere actually think this kind of rubbish is what Almighty God had in mind when He sent His Holy Son to earth in humble surroundings? So a Damien Hirst replica skull is supposed to … Continue reading
Posted in Web Links
Tagged Church of England, Church of Scotland, Consumerism, Doug Wilson, Julian Mann, lottery, marriage
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Finding Christ in Proverbs — and Finding Proverbs in Christ
Proverbs, for all its work of conviction of sin, as a schoolmaster, is also a book of hope. If our case was hopeless, if there were no way for God to be pleased with us, the entire book would be wasted words spoken to wasted hearts. Proverbs, after knocking us into the pit of despair by revealing our desperate conviction, says to us, “God gives wisdom. Do not despair. God can and will be pleased with you, if you follow wisdom and the fear of the Lord. He will make a way.” Continue reading
Posted in A Proverb for Today
Tagged Christ in Proverbs, Faith, Gospel, Jesus, Proverbs, Saviour, Sermon on the Mount, teaching, wisdom
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Mind Renewers 