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July 26
CHRIST’S PRECIOUS BLOOD: “This is My blood of the new covenant…” (Mt 26:28). C.H. Spurgeon writes: “A gentleman has purchased a very expensive sword, with a golden hilt and an elaborate scabbard: he hangs it up in his hall, and exhibits it to all his friends…The precious blood of Jesus is not meant for us…
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July 26 Petition Mission
“Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need” (Heb 4:16). How different the believer’s invitation to the high priest’s of old. Not one chosen man, but any and all of us. Not with fear and trembling, but with assurance.…
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July 26
Educator John Dewey (1859-1952), co-author of the Humanist Manifesto I, declared, “There is no God and there is no soul. Hence, there are no needs for the props of traditional religion. With dogma and creed excluded, then immutable truth is also dead and buried. There is no room for fixed, natural law or moral absolutes.”…
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July 25 Petition Mission
“We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is fitting, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of every one of you all abounds toward each other” (2 Thess 1:3). An 1871 painting by John Everett Millais titled Victory O Lord! hangs in the Manchester Art Gallery. It powerfully depicts…
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July 25
Captain Gustav Stearns was an army chaplain with the 127th Infantry of the U.S. Expeditionary Forces in Europe during World War I. Wounded in battle, honored by General John Pershing for gallantry in action, in one day he buried 51 soldiers under shell-fire. He preached to over 4,000 wounded soldiers on one occasion, and was…