Category: christianity
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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…
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Free Advice Friday:
If “God says something” to you and it turns out to be false, it wasn’t God saying something to you. And next time you “hear” that “voice” don’t listen. Now, to avoid confusion or unnecessary offense let me give you a brief example. If “God tells you” who is going to be the next P.O.T.U.S.…