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The lights glow softly, the Christmas music plays, and wondrous thoughts of the birth of our Savior fill our minds. What a blessing it is for the believer who still finds childlike joy in this time of year. Being “grown-up” is a bit over-rated, because being “grown-up,” according to the world, usually entails a constant […]
Read More Sin, Sorrow and the Joy of ChristmasLet us draw near with a true heart – Hebrews 10:22 What does it mean to draw near to God with a true heart? After spending a couple of chapters explaining how the old covenant was unable to actually take away sin, and how Christ has offered Himself as the one true sacrifice for sin, the […]
Read More Worship and a Troubled ConscienceThe thought of going into a theater with a loved one and having to leave them there as part of the crime scene, because they were killed by a gunman who opened fire on the crowd is almost too much to imagine. Yet this is what happened to several people last night. Events like the […]
Read More The Dark Knight in Denver and the Light of the WorldChristian Reader, consider these comforting lines from Psalm 89 (1650 Scottish Psalter): 31 If they my laws break, and do not keep my commandements; 32 I’ll visit then their faults with rods, their sins with chastisements. 33 Yet I’ll not take my love from him, nor false my promise make. 34 My cov’nant I’ll not […]
Read More Some Words of EncouragementI saw the effects of it today in an old friend who is being ravished by a disease that has attacked his mental capacities to the point he has lost the ability to speak. I saw it in another friend who is fighting with the grief of losing their spouse to illness. It reared its […]
Read More The Tyranny of SinOne of the troubling things about sanctified affliction is how unsanctified it can seem while you are going through it, but this should be expected since the Lord is often drawing the dross to the surface in order to remove it.
Read More Sanctified Affliction Seldom Seems SanctifiedSanctification is process that will not be completed on this side of heaven, which means that right now we still have issues of sin that the Lord is dealing with. This video looks at some of the things a true Child of God can face when God deals with us in our sinfulness. Even […]
Read More Brokenness and Sanctification (Dark Nights of the Soul)In the book of Hosea, God had strengthened the people and they turned around and used that strength to sin against Him. We do the same thing when we sin. God Bless, Doug
Read More Are You Using God Given Gifts To Sin?A few thoughts on fighting against sin, and making Christ your treasure.
Read More When Fighting Against Sin is PainfulThis is a short look at how some people are redefining the word “hate” and how this new definition is really self-refuting. The reality is that there are those who hate on both sides of the issue, but it may just be that this redefinition of “hate” is an expression of hate itself.
Read More How Much Hate Does it Take to Call Someone a Hater?
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