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A person who is conscientiously pro-choice must understand that he or she is a legal ally, willingly or unwillingly, with the pro-abortion position. If you the reader have taken a pro-choice position to avoid either extreme camp, you must squarely face the reality that from a legal standpoint you have chosen the pro-abortion camp.
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To withhold belief because the evidence doesn't support the claims is an honorable and wise response. Likewise, to believe against poor evidence is credulity, the mark of the fool, and brings no honor to God. However, the evidence about Jesus is compelling, so withholding belief in Him is to commit an immoral act. Unbelief is judged by Jesus not as an intellectual error but as a hostile act of prejudice against God Himself.
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Possessing Christ and despising the church is an intolerable contradiction. We cannot have Christ without embracing the church.
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It certainly takes grace to able to find joy in our hearts when people are experiencing joy over a gain that is, in some way, our loss. This involves more than just baseball games. It involves countless things that touch our daily lives. But God enables us as Christians to look at things not just from our own selfish perspectives but from the perspectives of others.
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ascension, not even the crucifixion or the resurrection. It is dangerous business to assign relative values to the episodes of Christ's life and ministry, but if we underestimate the significance of the ascension, we sail in perilous waters. What could be more important than the cross? Without it we have no atonement, no redemption. Paul resolved to preach
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In our day, however, we have focused so intently on the immediate activity of cause and effect that for the most part we have ignored or denied the overarching causal power behind all of life. Modern man basically has no concept of providence.
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The fact that people become emotional about the abortion issue has a rational basis. The emotion is not arbitrary or capricious. The emotion is rooted in the deep human consciousness of the sanctity of life. It is emotional concern for the well-being of people-living people.
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the more we understand of the holiness and the righteousness of God, the more we begin to see by contrast how desperately fallen we are and how utterly dependent we are on His mercy and grace.
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one of the best ways of learning orthodoxy is by learning what is false. In fact, heresy historically has forced the church to be precise, to define its doctrines and differentiate truth from falsehood.
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God the Father has exalted His Son as head over all things, with the right to rule the rulers of this world.
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It is the prerogative of the theologian to make fine distinctions; that is what theology is about.
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However, when the Bible speaks of the fatherhood of God, it doesn't characteristically do so with regard simply to creation, but specifically to redemption. Since that is the case, the fatherhood of God is not inclusive, but exclusive and restricted.
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What is true of Peter is true of all of us: we fall in private before we ever fall in public.
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Evangelism is just one beggar telling another beggar where to find bread.
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God's honor must become the obsession of the Christian community today. Honor must go not to our organizations, our denominations, our individual modes of worship, or even our particular churches, but to God alone.
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Jesus was killed because He was the light of the world and because men prefer the darkness to the light.
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I love the church. It is the body of Christ. It nurtures my soul and aids in my sanctification. But the church cannot redeem me. Christ and Christ alone can save me. The sacraments are precious to me. They edify and strengthen me, but they cannot justify me.
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So, James is exhorting us to count it all joy even when it is not all joy, not because it is joyous to be involved in pain and suffering, but because God can bring good through that pain and suffering. He is working in even the difficult situations for our sanctification.
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we can never replace the message of Christ with a human enterprise of social concern. Our social concern flows out of the gospel--it does not replace the gospel.
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considerable discussion, the Draft Committee's submission received
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Consider the emotional patterns of infants. Have you ever noticed how changeable they are? A baby may be crying lustily, but if you say, "Goo, goo, goo" and call his attention to something else, suddenly he's giggling. But ten seconds later, he can be crying again. A child's emotions are like that until he gets to a point where the highs and lows are less extreme. Likewise, in spiritual growth, we tend to follow a generally upward trend in ..
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No person in history has provoked as much study, criticism, prejudice, or devotion as Jesus of Nazareth.
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What the scholars discovered behind the veil was a Jesus created in their own images according to their own prejudices.
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When the Jews wanted to make something emphatic, instead of adding an exclamation point or using italics, they would simply repeat it.
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But, someone will say, does God not know, even without being reminded, both in what respect we are troubled and what is expedient for us, so that it may seem in a sense superfluous that he should be stirred up by our prayers-as if he were drowsily blinking or even sleeping until he is aroused by our voice? But they who thus reason do not observe to what end the Lord instructed his people to pray, for he ordained it not so much for his own s..
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Prayer, like everything else in the Christian life, is for God's glory and for our benefit, in that order.
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We pray to glorify God, but we also pray in order to receive the benefits of prayer from His hand. Prayer is for our benefit, even in light of the fact that God knows the end from the beginning. It is our privilege to bring the whole of our finite existence into the glory of His infinite presence.
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when I was in seminary I kept a card on my desk that said, "You are responsible to believe and to teach what the Bible teaches, not what you would like for it to teach." I realize that when there's something in the Word of God that I don't like, the problem is not with the Word of God, it's with me."
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Todo lo que Dios hace es en primer lugar para su gloria y en segundo lugar para nuestro beneficio. Oramos porque Dios nos ordena que oremos, porque eso lo glorifica, y porque nos beneficia.
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I don't think that anything reveals the state of a person's soul more clearly than the words that come out of his mouth.
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We have no merit to offer God except for that earned for us by our Savior.
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Pero el nuevo nacimiento es meramente el punto de partida de este proceso que continua hasta que somos glorificados en el cielo. La lucha continua desde el dia del nuevo nacimiento hasta aquel dia en el cielo cuando alcanzamos la plenitud de la madurez en Cristo.
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John Wesley senalo una vez que el no tenia en mucha estima a los ministros que no pasaban al menos cuatro horas diarias en oracion.
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Las personas no regeneradas son, en el mejor de los casos, indiferentes a las cosas de Dios. Mas a menudo son abiertamente hostiles hacia el. Ah, si, puede parecer que algunos estan buscando a Dios, pero Romanos 3:11 nos dice que no es asi. La persona no regenerada jamas busca a Dios; es un fugitivo de Dios. Jesus vino a buscar y salvar al perdido (Lucas 19:10). El es el Buscador; nosotros somos los que huimos. Los no regenerados estan busc..
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the only way to avoid despair is to place our faith in Jesus Christ for the salvation God provides.
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are from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version, copyright (c) 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by
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of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Sproul, R. C. (Robert Charles), 1939- What is the relationship
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If we rest our assurance on an experience and not on the Word of God, we're inviting all kinds of doubts to assail us in our pilgrimages. We need to seek authentic knowledge of our salvation, not just some warm and fuzzy experience. It
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I remember the story of a distraught father who was deeply grieved by the death of his son. He went to see his pastor, and in his bewildered anger he asked, "Where was God when my son died?" The pastor replied with a calm spirit, "The same place He was when His Son died."
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We need Christ-the real Christ. A Christ born of empty speculation or created to squeeze into the philosopher's pattern simply won't do. A recycled Christ, a Christ of compromise, can redeem no one. A Christ watered down, stripped of power, debased of glory, reduced to a symbol, or made impotent by scholarly surgery is not Christ but Antichrist.
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God is working in us for his good pleasure. Paul does not say that God is working in us for our good pleasure.
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My purposes do not always include God's good. I am a sinner.
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