I don’t know about you, but I have greatly enjoyed the first year of our book-of-the-month club. The books have been helpful, the discussions have been stimulating and the cookies have been amazing. These are the books we read through this year. It is pretty amazing what can be done one page at a time.…
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Christian Women Don’t Always Submit “I am convinced that many of us women have a submission problem. A giant submission problem. But it isn’t mainly that we won’t submit to our husbands — it’s that we won’t stop submitting to the world. The biggest problem with women and submission is too much of it in…
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So saith a gracious soul, though honour is not, and riches are not, and health is not, and friends are not, etc., it is enough that Christ is, that he reigns, conquers, and triumphs. Christ is the pot of manna, the cruse of oil, a bottomless ocean of all comfort, content, and satisfaction. He that…
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Like the Pharisees, the Sadducees were a Jewish religious and political party that existed during the life of Christ and the beginnings of the early church but disappeared soon afterwards. If we know little for certain about the Pharisees, we know even less about the Sadducees. We know, from the accounts given in the Gospel…
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I used to shake my head at the Israelites who complained about bitter water just after they watched God deliver them from the strongest nation in their world. I also thought proudly that, if I had lived in the little town of Bethlehem, I would have given up not just a room but my entire…
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When Christians unite around something other than the gospel, they create community that would likely exist even if God didn’t. As a modern-day tower of Babel, that community glorifies their strength instead of God’s.
Mark Dever & Jamie Dunlop, The Compelling Community: Where God’s Power Makes a Church Attractive, (Crossway, 2015), 23
I hope you have enjoyed reading Wordsmithy as much as I have. Our Coffee-and-Cookies fellowship for those who have read the book will be held in the Equipping Center Library tomorrow, after the evening service. Any book this interesting ought to provoke some good discussion! In light of the Christmas holiday, we will not have…
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Why You Should Let Complete Strangers Stay In Your Home “Our homes are not our own. Our lives are not our own. When are we all going to realise this? What did Jesus say we would gain if we gave everything up for him? People need to hear about the love of Jesus and they…
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I acknowledge, Lord, and I give thanks that You have created Your image in me, so that I may remember You, think of You, love You. But this image is so effaced and worn away by vice, so darkened by the smoke of sin, that it cannot do what it was made to do unless…
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Located about 25 miles to the north of the Sea of Galilee, Caesarea Philippi was situated at the foot of Mt. Hermon, near the source of the Jordan River. The city was developed by and named after Philip the Tetrarch, one of the many sons of Herod the Great, who ruled the region during the…
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