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Biblical Christianity

Feb 20, 2021Feb 2021

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On our part, we Christians regard Plato neither as a god nor a demigod, nor do we place him on a level with any of God’s holy angels, or with a prophet of truth or apostle, or with any martyr of Christ or simple Christian.

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Biblical Christianity

Feb 20, 2021Feb 2021

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20 FEBRUARY (1870) Precious, honourable, beloved ‘Since thou wast precious in my sight, thou hast been honourable, and I have loved thee.’ Isaiah 43:4 SUGGESTED FURTHER READING: 1 Peter 2:12–18 We can never think of the human soul but as a ...

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Biblical Christianity

Feb 20, 2021Feb 2021

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Far from our Thoughts, vain World, be gone, Let our religious Hours alone: Oh may our Eyes our Saviour see! We wait a Visit, Lord, from thee.

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Feb 19, 2021Feb 2021

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Comrades in arms, Midnight Toast.

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Biblical Christianity

Feb 19, 2021Feb 2021

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'What man is like Job, who drinks up scoffing like water, who travels in company with evildoers and walks with wicked men? For he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing that he should take delight in God.’

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Biblical Christianity

Feb 18, 2021Feb 2021

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I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with my eye upon you. Be not like a horse or a mule, without understanding, which must be curbed with bit and bridle, or it will not stay near you.

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Biblical Christianity

Feb 18, 2021Feb 2021

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BEYOND the smiling and the weeping, I shall be soon; Beyond the waking and the sleeping, Beyond the sowing and the reaping, I shall be soon. Love, rest, and home, Sweet hope! Lord, tarry not, but come.”

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Biblical Christianity

Feb 18, 2021Feb 2021

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I have added a new page on my site, Apocalypse in Space and Time. It is loaded with teaching videos by Bruce Gore on Revelation. These are not just on the book itself but on the people who have endeavored to interpret or misinterpret it, as the case ...

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Feb 18, 2021Feb 2021

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This is the sermon preached by the minister in British Columbia just before he went to jail. Every Christian should listen to it.

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Biblical Christianity

Feb 18, 2021Feb 2021

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18 FEBRUARY (1872) Precious deaths ‘Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints.’ Psalm 116:15 SUGGESTED FURTHER READING: Acts 21:7–14 We love the people of God; they are exceedingly precious to us and, therefore, we are too...

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Biblical Christianity

Feb 17, 2021Feb 2021

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But, the evil spirits whom the pagans accept as gods are content to have ascribed to themselves even villainies which they have not committed, so long as by encouraging such impostures they can entangle men’s minds in a mesh of confusion, and drag ...

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Biblical Christianity

Feb 17, 2021Feb 2021

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FEBRUARY—17 Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel, unto thee, O Baruch; Thou didst say, Woe is me now! for the Lord hath added grief to my sorrow; I fainted in my sighing, and I find no rest. Thus shalt thou say unto him, The Lord saith thus; ...

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Feb 17, 2021Feb 2021

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A Canadian Pastor has turned himself in after police informed him he was going to be arrested for violating provincial lockdown orders, the result of continuing to hold church services in defiance of a public health order which prohibits houses of ...

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Feb 17, 2021Feb 2021

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Claims that COVID is spread at grocery stores are driving major retailers to move to online ordering and curbside pickup. These claims are laughable, but the agenda behind them is not: the real drivers here are the elimination of farmers markets and...

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Feb 17, 2021Feb 2021

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It is now out in the open; Kamela is President of the United States. She is now the one puppet of the PTB in the U.S.

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Feb 17, 2021Feb 2021

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All the links in this chain have one thing in common – communication with the US intelligence agencies and receiving from them through the State Department structures, as well as all sorts of “democratic” organisations sponsored Soros. This ...

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Biblical Christianity

Feb 17, 2021Feb 2021

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The Son of God in tears, Angels with wonder see! Be thou astonish’d, O my soul, He shed those tears for thee.

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Biblical Christianity

Feb 17, 2021Feb 2021

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17 FEBRUARY (UNDATED SERMON) Joshua’s obedience ‘Observe to do according to all the law, … turn not from it to the right hand or to the left.’ Joshua 1:7 SUGGESTED FURTHER READING: Nehemiah 8:9–9:5 One good brother said that when he went...

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Biblical Christianity

Feb 16, 2021Feb 2021

Posted by lawrenceblair

These are two chapters of the City of God that the incompetent editor at The Pilgrim Journal overlooked while posting. Please accept the apologies of the site owner who just happens to be the editor also as well as myself, else I would fire them ...

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Biblical Christianity

Feb 16, 2021Feb 2021

Posted by lawrenceblair

In the gospel God offers His Son Jesus Christ, inviting all who are desirous to come to Him to do so. He promises that all who believe in the Son will have eternal life, while promising at the same time that none will be cast out who come to Him. God...

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Biblical Christianity

Feb 16, 2021Feb 2021

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The friends who were reputed to be “gifted” indulged themselves in public prayer with a review of their own experience, a recapitulation of their creed, an occasional running commentary upon a chapter or Psalm, or even a criticism upon the Pastor...

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Biblical Christianity

Feb 16, 2021Feb 2021

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Oh my black soul! Now art thou summoned By sickness, death’s herald and champion; Thou art like a pilgrim, which abroad hath done Treason, and durst not turn to whence he is fled;

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Biblical Christianity

Feb 16, 2021Feb 2021

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16 FEBRUARY (1868) Joshua’s vision ‘And it came to pass, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and, behold, there stood a man over against him …: and Joshua went unto him … And Joshua fell on his face to the ...

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Biblical Christianity

Feb 15, 2021Feb 2021

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Come in Thy glorious might, Come with the iron rod, Scattering Thy foes before Thy face, Most Mighty Son of God!

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Biblical Christianity

Feb 15, 2021Feb 2021

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Come then, I entreat you, to your Father, in the name of Christ, for through Him we have boldness and access with confidence. Resist the attempts of the world, the flesh and the devil to detain you; resist even your best friend, if he would keep you ...

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Biblical Christianity

Feb 15, 2021Feb 2021

Posted by lawrenceblair

‘On the contrary, among the very few offenses for which capital punishment was imposed, our Twelve Tables included that of publishing libelous and defamatory verse. That is admirable. For, our lives should not be subject to poets’ irresponsible ...

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Biblical Christianity

Feb 15, 2021Feb 2021

Posted by lawrenceblair

Come, my soul, look within the veil, whither thy Forerunner is for thee entered; and now that God the Holy Ghost hath opened a door in heaven, behold what felicities are presenting themselves to thy view! Behold, amidst all the glories of the place, ...

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Biblical Christianity

Feb 15, 2021Feb 2021

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15 FEBRUARY (PREACHED 16 FEBRUARY 1873) Divine love and its gifts ‘Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace, comfort your hearts, and ...

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Biblical Christianity

Feb 14, 2021Feb 2021

Posted by lawrenceblair

Well, Hillsboro has been covered with snow and ice now for a couple of days now. People are slipping and sliding on their way to work or wherever their going. Me? I,m doing my best to keep from falling on my short trek back and forth to my backyard ...

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Biblical Christianity

Feb 14, 2021Feb 2021

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Hasten the Restitution-Day, Which now Corruption shrouds, New Heavens and new Earth display, With Jesus in the Clouds.

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Feb 14, 2021Feb 2021

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A most informative page.

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Biblical Christianity

Feb 14, 2021Feb 2021

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14 FEBRUARY (1869) Every-day usefulness ‘And he brought him to Jesus.’ John 1:42 SUGGESTED FURTHER READING: 1 John 1:1–4 Perhaps somebody will be saying, ‘How did Andrew persuade Simon Peter to come to Christ?’ Two or three minutes may ...

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Biblical Christianity

Feb 13, 2021Feb 2021

Posted by lawrenceblair

Some of them, so far as they were guided from on high, made great discoveries; but, as far as they were hindered by human nature, fell into error, especially when Divine Providence justly thwarted their pride in order to show them, even by ...

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Biblical Christianity

Feb 13, 2021Feb 2021

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THE night shall soon be over, The morning soon shall dawn; The twilight and the darkness Alike shall soon be gone.

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Biblical Christianity

Feb 13, 2021Feb 2021

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Reader, whoever thou art, but especially the young, this unassuming poem is most worthy of being committed to memory. It is a striking detection of the devil’s sophistry. Strive, as you value your peace and happiness, to escape the depths of moral ...

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Biblical Christianity

Feb 13, 2021Feb 2021

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13 FEBRUARY (1870) Sinners bound with the cords of sin ‘His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.’ Proverbs 5:22 SUGGESTED FURTHER READING: Luke 12:13–21 It has long been a mystery ...

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Biblical Christianity

Feb 13, 2021Feb 2021

Posted by lawrenceblair

“Have a little patience,” says Death to the inquisitive soul: “I will fetch thee shortly to a place where even this wisdom will be found.” When the mystery of God shall be finished it will be laid open, and we shall know as we are known; when...

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Biblical Christianity

Feb 12, 2021Feb 2021

Posted by lawrenceblair

In order to arouse popular hatred against us, they pretend ignorance and strive to instill into people’s minds the common notion that the misfortunes which afflict the human race are due to the expansion of Christianity and to the eclipse of the ...

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Biblical Christianity

Feb 12, 2021Feb 2021

Posted by lawrenceblair

Thou dear Almighty Lord, Our Conqu’ror and our King, Thy Scepter and thy Sword, Thy reigning Grace we sing. Thine is the Pow’r; O may we sit, In willing Bonds, Beneath thy Feet!

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Biblical Christianity

Feb 12, 2021Feb 2021

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12 FEBRUARY (1871) The parable of the wedding feast ‘The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king, which made a marriage for his son, … saying, Tell them which are bidden, Behold, I have prepared my dinner: my oxen and my fatlings are ...

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Biblical Christianity

Feb 12, 2021Feb 2021

Posted by lawrenceblair

“I tell you, my friends, do not fear those who kill the body, and after that have nothing more that they can do. But I will warn you whom to fear: fear him who, after he has killed, has authority to cast into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear him! Are ...

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Biblical Christianity

Feb 11, 2021Feb 2021

Posted by lawrenceblair

For, as the truth of God is one, so is there but one plain manner of teaching it, which is free from false ornament, and which partakes more of the majesty of the Spirit than of the parade of human eloquence. Whoever departs from that, disfigures and...

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Biblical Christianity

Feb 11, 2021Feb 2021

Posted by lawrenceblair

Merciful Lord God, you are Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. You say “It is done” of things that are yet to come, so faithful and true are your promises.

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Biblical Christianity

Feb 11, 2021Feb 2021

Posted by lawrenceblair

My first plan was to challenge the view of those who hold that the Christian religion is responsible for all the wars desolating this miserable world and, in particular, for the recent barbarian sack of the City of Rome.

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Biblical Christianity

Feb 11, 2021Feb 2021

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11 FEBRUARY (1872) The real presence, the great want of the church ‘It was but a little that I passed from them, but I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother’s house, and into...

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Biblical Christianity

Feb 11, 2021Feb 2021

Posted by lawrenceblair

If we would all get our hearts filled with awful thoughts of God and humble thoughts of ourselves, we should not be so apt as we are to fall out about matters of doubtful disputation, which are trifling or intricate.

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Biblical Christianity

Feb 11, 2021Feb 2021

Posted by lawrenceblair

Faithful reprovers of sin must expect to have many enemies, and have need to set a watch before the door of their lips, because of their observers that watch for their halting. The prophet complains of those in his time who make a man an offender for...

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Biblical Christianity

Feb 10, 2021Feb 2021

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“A Little while” of mingled joy and sorrow, “A little while” to love and serve below, To wait the dawning of that bright tomorrow, When morn shall break upon our night of woe.

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Silly, Random & Fun

Feb 10, 2021Feb 2021

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What I am listening to after reading about Biden's handlers giving government workers nearly four months paid vacation for their votes.

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Feb 10, 2021Feb 2021

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Federal and Postal workers to get more weeks vacation. "The also would spend $570 million to for 600 hours of leave for federal and postal workers to use for Covid quarantine or to care for infected loved ones. -Bloomberg"

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Feb 10, 2021Feb 2021

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When I thought the nuts couldn't get nuttier they cracked.

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Feb 10, 2021Feb 2021

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And people give this evil man millions in tribute. It is incredible how people can be duped such obviously evil -grubbing villians. Well, maybe not, unfortunately.

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Biblical Christianity

Feb 10, 2021Feb 2021

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Then, I must show on account of what virtues and for what reason the true God, in whose power are all kingdoms, vouchsafed His help to spread the empire, while those fictions they call gods gave no help at all, but, on the contrary, worked untold ...

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Biblical Christianity

Feb 10, 2021Feb 2021

Posted by lawrenceblair

Is it not woeful to the flocks and to the herds, when ravenous beasts do frequent their pastures? Then woe to man because of Satan: for the peril of the lamb from the wolf; of the kid from the leopard; of the fat beast from the lion; and of the ...

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Biblical Christianity

Feb 10, 2021Feb 2021

Posted by lawrenceblair

Oh I shall soon despair, when I do see That thou lovest mankind well, yet wilt not choose me, And Satan hates me, yet is loath to lose me.

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Feb 10, 2021Feb 2021

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10 FEBRUARY (PREACHED 6 MARCH 1870) The King feasting in his garden ‘I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk: eat, O ...

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Biblical Christianity

Feb 9, 2021Feb 2021

Posted by lawrenceblair

Some there are who, covertly or overtly, join the enemy in abusing the God whom they have promised to serve. They are to be seen flocking sometimes to the theatres with the godless, and at other times to the churches with us.

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Biblical Christianity

Feb 9, 2021Feb 2021

Posted by lawrenceblair

A broken heart, a fount of tears— Ask, and they will not be denied; A broken heart love’s cradle is; Jesus, our Love, is crucified!

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Biblical Christianity

Feb 9, 2021Feb 2021

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9 FEBRUARY (1868) Jesus and the lambs ‘He shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom.’ Isaiah 40:11 SUGGESTED FURTHER READING: Matthew 18:5–14 The divine gentleness of our Master has been shown in the solemn curses with...

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Biblical Christianity

Feb 9, 2021Feb 2021

Posted by lawrenceblair

Now, even the upright are often chastened of the Lord, and they cannot dispute against it; integrity itself is no fence either against calamity or calumny; but in that day they shall not be condemned with the world, though God may afflict by ...

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Biblical Christianity

Feb 8, 2021Feb 2021

Posted by lawrenceblair

This contagion so beclouded the wits of those wretches, so befouled and deranged them, that even now—for, future generations will scarcely believe the story if it reaches them—after the City of Rome has been laid waste, those who were so infected...

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Biblical Christianity

Feb 8, 2021Feb 2021

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We want among us believers like those solid, substantial family mansions which stand from generation to generation as landmarks of the country; no lath-and-plaster fabrics, but edifices solidly constructed to bear all weathers, and defy time itself. ...

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Biblical Christianity

Feb 8, 2021Feb 2021

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Thou hast made me, and shall thy work decay? Repair me now, for now mine end doth haste; I run to death, and death meets me as fast, And all my pleasures are like yesterday;

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Biblical Christianity

Feb 8, 2021Feb 2021

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8 FEBRUARY (PREACHED 9 FEBRUARY 1873) The monster dragged to light ‘Sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.’ Romans 7:13 SUGGESTED FURTHER READING: 1 ...

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Biblical Christianity

Feb 8, 2021Feb 2021

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But what do we mean by heresy? Is every theological error a heresy? In a broad sense, every departure from biblical truth may be regarded as a heresy. But in the currency of Christian thought, the term heresy has usually been reserved for gross and ...

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Feb 7, 2021Feb 2021

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7 FEBRUARY (1869) Fire—the want of the times ‘I am come to send fire on the earth; and what will I, if it be already kindled?’ Luke 12:49 SUGGESTED FURTHER READING: 2 Kings 17:24–40 All through this world of ours the gospel will burn up ...

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Biblical Christianity

Feb 6, 2021Feb 2021

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LORD, as to Thy dear Cross we flee, And plead to be forgiven, So let Thy life our pattern be, And form our souls for heaven.

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Biblical Christianity

Feb 6, 2021Feb 2021

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He can transform himself into the appearance of an angel of light. You don’t find him so much in the Saddam Husseins of this world. He is not so crass. He appears as a saint, a paragon of virtue, waiting to seduce you.

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Biblical Christianity

Feb 6, 2021Feb 2021

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6 FEBRUARY (1870) Work in us and work by us ‘Whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.’ Colossians 1:29 SUGGESTED FURTHER READING: 1 Corinthians 9:24–27 Our life is in Scripture represented as ...

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Biblical Christianity

Feb 5, 2021Feb 2021

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With how much zeal would a man like Nasica have kept the stage plays themselves far from Rome, if he had dared defy the authority of those he regarded as gods. But, he either did not know that those deities were mischievous demons, or, if he did, he ...

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Biblical Christianity

Feb 5, 2021Feb 2021

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The things of this earth are not your portion, and therefore cannot satisfy. Have you not often experienced that instead of resulting in more holiness, they rob you of your peace and spiritual liberty, hindering you from running your course with joy?...

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Feb 5, 2021Feb 2021

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How sweetly flowed the gospel sound From lips of gentleness and grace, When listening thousands gathered round, And joy and gladness filled the place!

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Feb 5, 2021Feb 2021

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How sweetly flowed the gospel sound From lips of gentleness and grace, When listening thousands gathered round, And joy and gladness filled the place!

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Feb 5, 2021Feb 2021

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5 FEBRUARY (1871) Compassion for souls ‘She went, and sat down over against him a good way off, as it were a bowshot; for she said, Let me not see the death of the child. And she sat over against him, and lift up her voice, and wept.’ Genesis ...

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Biblical Christianity

Feb 5, 2021Feb 2021

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For I know that my Redeemer lives, and at the last he will stand upon the earth. And after my skin has been thus destroyed, yet in my flesh I shall see God,

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Biblical Christianity

Feb 4, 2021Feb 2021

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He that is born again has had the eyes of his understanding opened, and the Ten Commandments appear to him in an entirely new light. He feels amazed that he can have lived so long careless and indifferent about transgressions, and he looks back on ...

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Biblical Christianity

Feb 4, 2021Feb 2021

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That very lust for power which among human vices obsessed the Roman people more completely than any other, once it took possession of a few men of exceptional power also made slaves of the rest of them, now a demoralized and weary horde. ...

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Biblical Christianity

Feb 4, 2021Feb 2021

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Be thou my pattern; make me bear More of Thy gracious image here; Then God the Judge shall own my name Amongst the followers of the Lamb.

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Biblical Christianity

Feb 4, 2021Feb 2021

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Our story takes us back two thousand years before the birth of Christ, and to the ancient city of Ur. And it may be well, by the aid of modern discovery, to consider the earliest conditions amid which this life was cradled. We like to stand in that ...

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Feb 4, 2021Feb 2021

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4 FEBRUARY (1872) The only atoning priest ‘But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right hand of God; from henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool. For by one offering he hath ...

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Feb 3, 2021Feb 2021

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In our own day, a full-scale assault has been launched within evangelicalism against the classical doctrine of justification by faith alone.

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Feb 3, 2021Feb 2021

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JD explains why Dr. Masters is wrong and Dr. MacArthur is right, and encourages listeners not to look at the Scripture through the lens of a peasant, serf, or slave.

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Biblical Christianity

Feb 3, 2021Feb 2021

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There will be a wondrous illumination concerning the unity of the Godhead as you consider each individual Person, and of the Godhead in its Trinity as you contemplate its unity. If so much light, comfort, joy, and holiness may be derived from ...

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Biblical Christianity

Feb 3, 2021Feb 2021

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These are bad times. Many families, both parents and youngsters—take whichever you choose—are just as entertaining and just as offensive to watch as a cage full of playful, howling, grimacing chimpanzees at the zoo. How often don’t you ...

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Biblical Christianity

Feb 3, 2021Feb 2021

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But, pray, who are you that I should parley with you, especially about your gods, and much less about my God, who is to be feared above all gods. For all the gods of the Gentiles are devils: but the Lord made the heavens.

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Feb 3, 2021Feb 2021

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He comes to cheer the trembling heart; Bids Satan and his host depart; Again the day-star gilds the gloom, Again the bowers of Eden bloom.”

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Feb 3, 2021Feb 2021

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3 FEBRUARY (UNDATED SERMON) The alarm ‘I myself will awake early.’ Psalm 57:8 SUGGESTED FURTHER READING (Spurgeon): 1 Thessalonians 5:1–11 ‘Will awake’. This is a world in which most men nowadays are alive to their temporal interests. ...

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Biblical Christianity

Feb 2, 2021Feb 2021

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Therefore, do not elevate yourself beyond the reach of your comprehension, and do not limit God by your human conceptions. Acknowledge and believe God to be the One who dwells in incomprehensible eternity; lose yourself in this eternity; worship that...

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Feb 2, 2021Feb 2021

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Yet if his majesty our sovereign lord, Should of his own accord Friendly himself invite, And say “I’ll be your guest to-morrow night,” How should we stir ourselves, call and command All hands to work! “Let no man idle stand. ...

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Feb 2, 2021Feb 2021

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2 FEBRUARY (1868) Nearer and dearer ‘I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying, Open to me, … I have put off my coat; how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them? My beloved put ...

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Biblical Christianity

Feb 1, 2021Feb 2021

Posted by lawrenceblair

Remember your mercy, O LORD, and your steadfast love, for they have been from of old. Do not remember the sins of my youth or my transgressions; according to your steadfast love remember me, for the sake of your goodness, O LORD! ...

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Biblical Christianity

Feb 1, 2021Feb 2021

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Nevertheless, carefully scrutinize your own souls and see whether you were not unduly puffed up about your virtue of purity, or continence, or chastity, and whether you have not been led to envy others by reason of the human praise bestowed on them ...

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Feb 1, 2021Feb 2021

Posted by lawrenceblair

Crush, dear babe, his power within us, Break our chains, and set us free; Pull down all the bars between us, Till we fly, and cleave to Thee.

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Feb 1, 2021Feb 2021

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1 FEBRUARY (PREACHED 2 FEBRUARY 1873) Always, and for all things ‘Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.’ Ephesians 5:20 SUGGESTED FURTHER READING: Psalm 50:14–23 The position of our...

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Biblical Christianity

Feb 1, 2021Feb 2021

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A flowing river, or a standing lake, May their dry banks and naked shores forsake; Their waters may exhale and upward move, Their channel leave to roll in clouds above; But the returning water will restore What in the summer they had lost before: But...

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Jan 31, 2021Jan 2021

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31 JANUARY (1869) A sermon for the most miserable of men ‘My soul refused to be comforted.’ Psalm 77:2 SUGGESTED FURTHER READING: Psalm 42:1–11 Barnabas, the son of consolation, would be hard pressed to cheer the victims of depression when ...

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Biblical Christianity

Jan 30, 2021Jan 2021

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Go, return, immortal Saviour! Leave Thy footstool, take Thy throne; Thence return, and reign for ever, Be the kingdom all Thy own.

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Jan 30, 2021Jan 2021

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30 JANUARY (1870) Method and music, or the art of holy and happy living ‘And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.’ Colossians 3:17 SUGGESTED FURTHER READING: ...

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Biblical Christianity

Jan 30, 2021Jan 2021

Posted by lawrenceblair

God can soon nonplus the deepest politicians and bring the greatest wits to their wits’ end, to show that wherein they deal proudly he is above them. Thus are the revolutions of kingdoms wonderfully brought about by an overruling Providence. Heaven...

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Biblical Christianity

Jan 29, 2021Jan 2021

Posted by lawrenceblair

God, in His unfathomable goodness, being desirous to have a people of His own on earth whom He would lead unto salvation, has revealed to them a way of salvation, beginning with the first gospel declaration to Adam. The Seed of the woman would bruise...

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