I. Guide me, O Thou great Jehovah, Pilgrim through this barren land; I am weak, but Thou art mighty, Hold me with Thy pow’rful hand: Bread of heaven, bread of heaven, Feed me till I want no more. II. Open now the chrystal fountain, Whence the healing stream doth flow; Let the…
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While Exegesis deals with the task of understanding what a text meant in its original context, hermeneutics deals with what those texts mean to us today. However, it is important to note that this is not the only definition in use today. Some authors use the term hermeneutics to refer to the entire process of…
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This past week my family and I were in New York City for the wedding of one of my sisters. I was raised in the NYC neighborhood of Astoria and Ashley and I spent a very happy first year of marriage there as we did our best to serve the wonderful people of Open Door…
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A man may have enough of the world to sink him, but he can never have enough to satisfy him.
Thomas Brooks, The Complete Works of Thomas Brooks Volume One, (James Nichol, 1866 [1676]), 69
Chapter Ten & Epilogue Darlene’s suffering was not over when she was liberated from her prison camp. Recovery would take years. We often find it easier to remember to pray for someone when they are in the midst of a storm than to continue to encourage them in the years ahead. Yet though fellow…
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Treating People Like Projects “It is not disingenuous to have evangelistic intentions undergirding our love and care for unbelieving people. In fact, I don’t know if a Christian can genuinely love their lost friends without wanting, more than anything else, to see them escape condemnation and enjoy the infinite benefits of a relationship with Jesus!”…
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It is an awful truth, and worthy of all consideration, that knowledge not acted upon, in God’s sight, is not merely useless and unprofitable. It is much worse than that. It will add to our condemnation and increase our guilt in the judgment day. A faith that does not influence a man’s practice is not…
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Coming from the Greek word exēgeomai, which means to lead or draw out, exegesis is the art and science of drawing out the original intended meaning of a text. We cannot understand what a particular Scripture means for us today if we have not first taken the time to come to grips with the original…
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Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me.—Hebrews 13:5–6 As fallen human beings, we…
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Humility has nothing to do with depreciating ourselves and our gifts in ways we know to be untrue. Even “humble” attitudes can be masks of pride. Humility is that freedom from our self which enables us to be in positions in which we have neither recognition nor importance, neither power nor visibility, and even experience…
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