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Compound Cure for a Dangerous Disease: Purging Prescription for Iniquity...

...it is only when we fear the Lord that we will even have a desire to submit to His prescription for our iniquities: it is only when we fear the Lord that we will want to leave the evils with which we...

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Levitical Light for Literal Liturgy: Give Thanks

Today, since the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, Christians are now the ones appointed to GIVE THANKS; because Believers are the royal priesthood of God (1 Peter 2:9-10). It is Believers who...

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Happiness is Mercy’s Child

...to the poor, to the weak the downtrodden, to the single mother with too many children, to the homeless man on the corner, our ATTITUDE should always be one of MERCY; not indifference, not judgment,...

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Sin is a Health Hazard

Spiritual health is critical to our physical well-being. Therefore, it is important that we allow God to govern our hearts and that we protect what enters our hearts. Scripture tells us to put our...

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Misery Masked by Mirth

The heart of man was made by God and for God. Therefore, lasting joy can be found nowhere else: real joy is only found in the heart yielded to God. Without, God there is only sorrow covered with...

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Look into The Word before you Leap into the World

The Bible is available to us and every Believer has the Holy Spirit as a guide. The challenge is whether we will use the tools God has provided us with; or if we will continue to refuse to study His...

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Accept God’s Love = Expect God’s Correction

His children had behaved badly for many years, despite many warnings, and it was time for them to "experience" Fatherly correction. But the correction was not without purpose, it was not borne of...

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Making God Disappear

...when deciding to sin we must take God out of the picture, we must assume even just for that moment that God is not “at hand”, that God is “afar off”. We make ourselves believe that somehow, while...

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Say Hello to Holiness

Mercy makes sanctification (holiness) possible, peace makes preservation possible, and love makes service/ministry (our calling) possible.

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Grappling with Grace

We must contend for our faith, by fighting for holiness, standing against false teaching and demonstrating, by the obedient lives we live, the truth of the Gospel: that it is possible for a man to live...

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Fingerprints of False Teachers and False Doctrines

False teachers/doctrine can be identified. The only remaining question is whether or not we care to identify them and contend for the faith. It is easier to go along with the status quo than to...

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Real Knowledge Produces Real Humility

We must fight to maintain God’s truth in our local congregations. We must oppose those who would claim to have knowledge and authority beyond that which is given to us in the Bible.

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The Confrontation Conundrum

God still loves the fool. Even though the fool has rejected God, God desires to rescue the fool from His folly, so that he can know the Truth and be saved.

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Gold, Frankincense, and Myrrh | Dedication, Worship, and Service

The example set by the wise men who brought gifts to Jesus has made the giving of gifts an integral part of celebrating Christmas: Jesus’ birth. However, the gifts we give each other, today, bear very...

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Gleanings from The Garden of Gethsemane

Bearing our sins on the Cross was such a burden that the Creator and Sustainer of the entire (physical AND spiritual) universe was almost overwhelmed. Grace is NOT cheap.

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Annunciation Appreciation: Jesus is The Only Answer

At Christmas time, and all the time, Believers ("men and women of God") are appointed to deliver God's message, to announce God's truth, to those whom we are sent; just like Gabriel did.

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Annunciation Appreciation | Highly Favoured: Lowly Humbled

The priceless benefit of being "highly favored" by God is being able to have fellowship with Him, being blessed to live in His presence where there is fullness of joy.

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Annunciation Appreciation | God’s Favour Frees From Fear

Our problem is that we trust our senses more than we trust God. Our tendency is to walk by sight, i.e., to live by our senses and our own human logic. When our sensory experiences tell us that things...

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Annunciation Appreciation | Glorifying Jesus

For us to accept Jesus as Saviour we must first see Jesus as King, rightly having the authority to offer us salvation on His terms. Sin came about when man rejected God's authority. Salvation comes...

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Annunciation Appreciation | The Fundamentals of Faith

Physically, a virgin birth was impossible, but spiritually it was possible: God isn't limited by the laws of the physical universe. God is bigger than that. Mary, however, was limited and she needed...

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