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Category Archives: Christian Life
The Blessing of Christian Fellowship in an Ungodly Age
Philippians 1:3-5; Malachi 3:16,17 I thank my God upon every remembrance of you, always in every prayer of mine for you all making request with joy, for your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now. Then they … Continue reading
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Tagged blessings, communications, communion, conversations, fellowship
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The Evils of Gossip & Backbiting
Leviticus 19:16; Proverbs 18:8; Psalm 15:1-3 Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people. The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly. LORD, who … Continue reading
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Tagged backbiting, gossip, sin, slander, tale-bearing
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Faithful Witnessing
Mark 12:31; Proverbs 24:11,12; Isaiah 43:10,11,15 Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain; if thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not; … Continue reading
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Tagged duty, love, obligation, salvation, truth, witness, witnesses
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An Enlarged Heart
Psalm 119:2,7,11,32 Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him with the whole heart. I will praise thee with uprightness of heart, when I shall have learned thy righteous judgments. Thy word have I hid in mine … Continue reading
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Tagged commandments, enlarge, grace, heart, joy, love, obedience, running, sanctification, testimonies, wisdom
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Experiential, or Experimental Understanding
Psalm 34:8; Hosea 6:3; Isaiah 7:9; Hebrews 10:32-34 O taste and see that the Lord is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him. Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the Lord: his going forth … Continue reading
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Tagged belief, experience, experimental knowledge, faith, head knowledge, heart knowledge
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The Blessings of Cheerful Charity
2 Corinthians 9:6-15 For I say, he which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully. Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of … Continue reading
The 700th Post** – Submission to God’s Judgments
Leviticus 10:1-3 And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer, and put fire therein, and put incense thereon, and offered strange fire before the LORD, which he commanded them not. And there went out … Continue reading
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Tagged Aaron, Abihu, judgments, Moses, Nadab, submission, worship
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Flies in the Ointment
1 Thessalonians 2:12; Ecclesiastes 10:1 Walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto his kingdom and glory. Dead flies cause the ointment of the apothecary to send forth a stinking savour: so doth a little folly him that is … Continue reading
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Tagged character flaws, conduct, improprieties, little sins, sanctification
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Walking with God in a Very Wicked World
2 Peter 3:10,11; Genesis 5:21-23 The day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth … Continue reading
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Tagged Enoch, holiness, marriage, perseverance, sanctification
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A Time to Laugh
Ecclesiastes 3:1,4 To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven…A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance. ROBERT HAWKER (1753-1827): If we … Continue reading
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Tagged delight, God, grace, joy, laugh, laughter, Providence
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