
May I Help You?
Service. In contemporary society, it is a word with scores of connotations, many of them very positive. Yet it was not always so. Being a servant meant hard hours of laboring in obscurity for a master whose expectations were high,...
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Innsight
Uplook Magazine, December 1991 Written by Stephen Anderson
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We Would See Jesus
"And there were certain Greeks among them that came up to worship at the feast . . . saying, Sir, we would see Jesus" (John 12:20-21). The feast of the Passover was at hand. The City of Jerusalem overflowed with worshipers....
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Why the Incarnation?
What the Lord Jesus Christ is at once both God and man is one of the most profound secrets that God has been pleased to reveal to His own. "The mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh," is...
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Gifts of Grace: 1 Corinthians 12
There are in the New Testament four words that describe the gifts God has given to the Church. First of all, they are called "spiritual gifts," reminding us that they are given by the Spirit of God and can only...
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Join the Secret Service
He belongs to an elite society composed entirely of nobility (Rev. 1:6). His private estate dwarfs those of the Fortune 500's most extravagant spenders (Eph. 1:3). His investments would take a Middle East oil sheik's breath away (1 Pet. 1:3-4)....
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The Incomparable Son
The Lord Jesus Christ dominates the Scriptures as the sun dominates our solar system. As the Eternal Son, He acts through creation and history. As the virgin's Son, He joins the stream of our race, the tributary destined to unite...
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The Women in Romans 16
In the last chapter of the epistle to the Romans, we have what seems like an appendix to the book. Chapter 15 really closes the unfolding of truth that forms the body of the letter and this is added as...
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Whatever Became of Preaching?
Preaching was once the glory of Protestantism. When the pulpit displaced the altar and the preacher replaced the priest, the benefit to the common people was immeasurable. What happened at the Reformation was not, of course, an innovation but rather...
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