Psalm 90 is written for those who have made a big mistake, perhaps the worst decision of their lives. How do they go forward? Is there a future? For we are brought to an end by your anger; by your wrath we are dismayed. You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light […]
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Grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen (2 Peter 3:18, ESV). Growing never stops. The prophet Zephaniah warns about complacent faith in the end times … I’ll search through every closet and alley in Jerusalem. I’ll find
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So we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes (Ephesians 4:14, ESV). Christians love to discuss doctrines, and let’s be honest, too often the discussion progresses to animated debate and anger. Are doctrines worth heated arguments?
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Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear (Ephesians 4:29, ESV). God made us for relationships, and our relationships grow or diminish through conversations. One study found that the average person in America
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And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony (Colossians 3:14, ESV). At one leading university, scientists had two guitarists play a particular musical score. Both musicians were connected to an array of sensors, which made them look more like aliens than classical musicians. The scientists were measuring brainwaves, dilation of the eyes, pulse,
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“Canon,” a word from the Greek, originally meant “measuring reed” but developed to mean “standard” during the canonization process of the New Testament. We didn’t receive the New Testament through God’s appearance in a cloud of glory during an early church council, holding a quill in His hand, then writing the names of the 27
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Have you ever cried out, “Lord, help!” If you have, Psalm 107 has the answer — and, please — remember this psalm as we will all at some point plead, “Lord, help!” There are five “help-needed” situations described in Psalm 107: Some wandered in the wilderness, lost and homeless. Hungry and thirsty, they nearly died (vv.
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Children, it is the last hour, and as you have heard that antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have come. Therefore, we know that it is the last hour (1 John 2:18, ESV). The word “antichrist” is found only in the Apostle John’s epistles (Read 1 John 2:18 [twice], 2:22, 4:3, and 2 John 1:7). John, as the
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Let no one deceive you in any way. For that day will not come, unless the rebellion comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction (2 Thessalonians 2:3, ESV). Recently, Peter Thiel (founder of PayPal® and a high-tech investor) held a conference entitled … The Antichrist: A Four-Part Lecture Series I couldn’t attend …
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Examine yourselves, to see whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves (2 Corinthians 13:5a ESV). A person told me, “Christianity didn’t work out for me.” I thought, “Well, I’ve encountered trials as a Christian, and certainly experienced more conflicts in the church than most (after being a pastor for 50 years), so why do I
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