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What WILL They Think of Next?
Wherever you are, Glenrothes or somewhere else, keep praying, keep serving, keep following the Lord, keep being a witness for Him. Persecution will come. Don’t get upset, don’t get angry, don’t get discouraged. It’s far better than having the kind of “Christianity” that isn’t even worth persecuting.
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Posted in Thoughts on the News
Tagged Advice UK, charity, Christians Against Poverty, Glenrothes, persecution, prayer
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A Proverb for Today — Proverbs 6:7
Forget the sluggard’s excuses, and start working on the sluggard’s education. Learn from the ant. Take some initiative, focus on the task, hold yourself accountable. Continue reading
Posted in A Proverb for Today
Tagged accountability, ant, cooperation, initiative, laziness, Proverbs, sluggard
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Motivated by the Promise of His Coming (part two)
Yet the truth of our Lord’s Second Coming is not just a glorious truth. It is also a motivational truth. It is a truth that should motivate us to live aright even now. In fact, this promise of our Lord’s Second Coming is employed as a principle of motivation at least once in every book of the New Testament except Galatians, Philemon, 2 John, and 3 John. Let us consider such passages from Acts, Romans, 1 Corinthians, and 2 Corinthians. Continue reading
Posted in Biblical Prophecy, Motivated by the Promise of His Coming
Tagged Christ's Return, Faith, hope, Motivation, promise, prophecy, repent, service, suffering
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Something I was Thinking About….
….thinking about it, while preparing for my message tomorrow. In the history of God (if we can even speak of such a thing), what is the greatest “crisis”? Is it when Christ hung on the Cross, bearing our sins, and … Continue reading
Posted in Grace and Forgiveness
Tagged Creation, Cross, Gethsemane, Grace, Incomprehensible
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One Reason for Standards in Music
We don’t have to try and get people to like our message. They aren’t going to “like” the truth, anyway. Their eyes have been blinded. Their only hope is for the light of the knowledge of the glory of God to shine in their hearts. “Cool” doesn’t come into it. Continue reading
Isn’t it About Time to Go?
A church cannot be a holy church, a pure and true church, if it acts as if immorality doesn’t matter, if it ignores false teaching, if it rejects the authority of Scripture. It ceases to be a church at all, and becomes merely a social club. Continue reading
Posted in Thoughts on the News
Tagged Church of Scotland, Dr John Cameron, homosexuality, immorality, moralism, Reformation, sect
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Inscribing the Arches (part two)
This week, in Romans 12:13-16, we have further detail on what I’ve called the central arch (“love without dissimulation”/love sincerely). Continue reading
Posted in Rightly Dividing
Tagged empathy, generosity, hospitality, Humility, living sacrifice, love, persecution, service
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Mind Renewers 