Category: christianity
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Triumphant Lamb
In light of recent events, it just doesn’t seem appropriate to celebrate our independence from tyranny. Any such celebration would be a charade as we the people are being relentlessly tyrannized by an overreaching government that believes its power and authority to be unlimited. However, hope is not lost, I believe reformation is at hand.…
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Unfortunate Father’s Day
For some of you fathers with less than desirable wives, a happy father’s day is going to be impossible. I pity you and will pray. Let me be clear to avoid any unnecessary offense and to further level offense with a bit more precision, what I mean by “less than desirable” would be a wife…
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Curse Of American Comfort
The Gospel reveals eternal realities about God that we would sometimes rather not face. We prefer to sit back, enjoy our clichés, and picture God as a Father who might help us, all the while ignoring God as a Judge who might damn us. This is why we fill our lives with the constant dribble…
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Easter Reflections
Easter the holiday has come and gone and while reflecting on the events that we commemorate with this special day, I had some thoughts start to buzz around. Nothing novel but interesting nevertheless. First, as I was mulling over the scriptures where these events are recorded for us, Luke 23:20 stuck out, “Pilate addressed them…
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A Defense of Calvinism
The following is taken from here and was written by Charles Spurgeon (1834-1892) who was a Calvinist although he preferred as do I, to be called a Christian. This article, while long gives a good overview of the doctrine. “The old truth that Calvin preached, that Augustine preached, that Paul preached, is the truth that I…