The title of my Corollaries segment on TFR: "If I say this is for evangelists, you won't read it, will you?"
Hypocrites prayed long prayers to get people’s attention. They wanted to be recognized as devoted people. Christians don’t pray with this motivation. In fact, they don’t need to make lengthy prayers.
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The certainty of this woman regarding Jesus’ compassion and power, together with her determination to reach him, brought her success. (The English version draws out the force of the verb, what she “kept saying” to herself. This was her motivating self-speech.)
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See this short slideshow of some important moments for us in 2012.
There were obviously other moments as well, but I didn't have the pics or couldn't find them or my old-age memory failed me.
It was a momentous and memorable year.
Randal
Many of my sins aren’t really my fault, it seems to me. Most of them happen because of the people around me, or the situations I face. If any normal person lived my life, he’d probably fare worse than I do.
If Satan gets us thinking like that, he’s already won half the battle.
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Chuck Webster with another tremendous devotional thought on temptation and blaming others for our sin.
In an attempt to do a better job, we’ve changed themes, installed the Disqus comment service so you can chime in through WordPress, Facebook, or Twitter, and added a “Missing” page for those who think the sinner’s prayer is the way to go.
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Recently someone asked, more or less, the following question: “How do we know that the things that were done in one church in the first century were done in the other churches as well?” That’s a good question because if we can’t know that the things practiced, say, in Corinth, were also practiced in Rome, then we can’t really know that we ought to practice the same things that they practiced in religion today.
A VeryImportantPost. Many claim that there's such a diversity of teaching among churches of the NT that it is wrong to hold to a unity of gospel doctrine
Do you find that last week of the year to charge you up or to be a time of zoning out? To me, it’s inspiring, challenging. So here, in the ancient rime royal form, is a thought toward that direction, as we turn the page to 2013.
A septet for you, seven lines for seven days, is that it?
with the Bible as our guide, we should seek to restore the original church of Christ as found in the Bible’s New Testament.
Glad to see this is still true of WBS.
Work of faith” refers not to the meetings of the church on the first day of the week, but to the Thessalonians’ constant and daily efforts in the kingdom among the pagans around them.
Meditation based on phrase in 1Th 1.3, "work of faith."