The Filling of the Spirit
What on earth does it mean? We occasionally hear the criticism that a person is “so heavenly minded that he is no earthly good.” I’d like to meet that person. A surplus of heavenly-minded people does not appear to be this...
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The Sealing of the Spirit
God's mark of ownership, commitment and purpose on the child of God. God has revealed truth progressively through His Word and sequentially through time. God does not give a complete doctrinal statement about Himself in Genesis, but, in successive ages and...
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Maximum Impact
Daniel and friends weren't marginally different; they were 10x better! Another pro-family U.S. congressman has gone down in disgrace, ambushed by his own lust. This is the refuse on which the bottom-feeding pundits thrive. Meanwhile “conservative” talk show hosts try to...
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Is There a Pattern?
My wife has never asked me to tell her that I love her or to buy her a Christmas present. (In fact, she regularly insists I needn’t buy her any presents at all. I am not fooled.) I would be...
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The Preaching of the Church
Roots in the Bible bring fruit in the saints. And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the Word of His grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which...
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Church Practice in Thessalonica
Learning to draw lines. To fathom, even to a limited degree, the depths of God’s wisdom and savor the beauty of His ways, the Bible student must “rightly divide” the Word. If we fail to do so, our view will be...
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Amazing Grace
We have received "grace upon grace," "manifold" and "unsearchable riches" of His grace. We may ransack every dictionary in the world only to discover that there are no adjectives that adequately describe the grace of God. It is so multifaceted, versatile,...
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Planting the Church at Thessalonica
Grace can make beauty flourish in the most unlikely surroundings. Paul and Silas had crossed over into Europe with the gospel in response to a vision which Paul had experienced. In this way, the gospel came to this large Roman province...
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