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The sins of Ezekiel’s day sound very much like the sins of today. Ezek. 22:9 There are men in you who slander to shed blood, and people in you who eat on the mountains; they commit lewdness in your midst. I love the book of Jeremiah. Along with my life verses (Jeremiah 29:11-14a) there are many nuggets of truth. Right from the beginning we see God making a case for the personhood of the unborn. Jer. 1:5 “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, Friends, please beware of those espousing “a new kind of Christianity.” As Samuel said in Ecclesiastes 1:9 What has been will be again, We’ve heard these heresies before. They were wrong then, they are wrong now. “Watch out for false prophets. They [...] Liberal Christianity… coming to a Southern Baptist Church near you… via Vanishing Christianity — A Lesson from the Presbyterians. I was working with the youth and other members of a church in an old house. It was in pretty bad shape and I noticed a large crack in the ceiling. The minister, was taking a break and I started a conversation with him. I said that I had been troubled lately, that the church [...] Prov. 30:7-9 “Two things I ask of you, O LORD; Trevin Wax has started his second annual book giveaway. This year, he’s giving away a copy of his ten favorite books, plus an ESV Study Bible and his new book, Holy Subversion. All you have to do is subscribe to his Kingdom People Blog and send him an email letting him know you did so. Good [...] Friday, November 20, 2009, over 150 orthodox, Catholic, and evangelical Christian leaders signed the Manhattan Declaration. An excerpt from it reads: “We are Christians who have joined together across historic lines of ecclesial differences to affirm our right – and, more importantly, to embrace our obligation – to speak and act in defense of these truths. [...] Sanctify 1. to make holy; set apart as sacred; consecrate. We don’t hear much about the topics of justification and sanctification in church any more. Jesus called for the sanctification of believers when He prayed, “Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth.” ~John 17:17 As Christians, the primary way of being sanctified is by following His [...] I have to memorize 1 Corinthians 13 for my PS221 Marriage and the Family class this semester. I thought it would help in that memorization to post the verses here with my personal interpretation. The Scripture: And if I give all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I surrender my body to be [...] |
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