[S]hall we break your commandments again and intermarry with the peoples who practice these abominations? Would you not be angry with us until you consumed us, so that there should be no remnant, nor any to escape? Ezra 9:14 (ESV) The spiritual and emotional intimacy of marriage can be wonderful or dreadful, depending upon the partner. …
Children are unusually prone to fear. From fear of the dark to night terrors; from separation anxiety to monsters under the bed, our children fear many things. And this has been an unusually fearful year. Children have watched their parents don masks to guard against an invisible threat; open doors with elbows and wash hands …
Translated by J. I. Packer and O. R. Johnson Fleming H. Revell, 2004, pgs. 320. Summary: At the behest of the Pope and the Catholic party, Desiderius Erasmus (1466/9-1536) wrote a little book called Diatribe de Libero Arbitrio defending a semi-Pelagian to Pelagian view of the will (cf. Pelagius, Roman Commentary review) in 1524. According to Erasmus the fallen human …
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18 When [the King] takes the throne of his kingdom, he is to write for himself on a scroll a copy of this law, taken from that of the priests, who are Levites. 19 It is to be with him, and he is to read it all the days of his life so that he may learn to …
We tend to only hear about larger churches and pastors of larger churches. But we should not despise small churches. Actually they can be beautiful. A beautiful church There are two dominant pictures of the church in the NT. These are the picture of a church as a family, and a local church as the …
The Littlest Birds Sing the Prettiest Songs: Encouragement for Small Churches Read More »
About ten years ago, I noticed renewed interest in preaching through the Song of Songs.[1] At least a few pastors wanted to be edgy. One brother rolled a king-sized bed onto the stage as a prop. Many of these sermons were little more than a baptized version of sex-ed. The Song of Songs certainly is about …
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