Faith
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Joseph’s Story
Every day, Joseph rose before dawn…to pray. “Shema Yisrael, Adonai Eloheinu, Adonai Echad.”…“Hear O Israel, the Lord our God…The Lord is one.” Joseph was following Yahweh, serving Israel’s God. His father Jacob had taught him this early morning devotion. The two of them had a carpentry business in the rocky region of Galilee, where wood was Continue reading
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Why a Christian Must Believe All the Bible
It seems so logical to many to declare that we can’t believe all the Scriptures. After all, some parts are so hopelessly outdated…and we just know that we can’t say “Yea and amen” to everything we read. Of course, “God is love”, and we should not “…judge, lest we be judged,” but most everything else Continue reading
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Seeking Joy? Try the Bible.
Send your light and your truth; let them lead me. Let them bring me to your holy mountain, to your dwelling place. Then I will come to the altar of God, to God, my greatest joy. Psalm 43:3, 4a (CSB) The Scriptures are uniquely empowered to bring you joy. Now…I am fully aware that this Continue reading
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Why Rejecting Any Particular Truth of Scripture is Ruinous for Overall Spiritual Health
Have you ever had a friend who lied to you? A spouse…or a boss…an employee, or a fellow employee? Probably you have. Maybe you have even been that person. As James says, “…we all stumble in many ways…” (James 3:2 ESV) Anyway, when it happens, and you discover it, one thing is sure to follow Continue reading
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A Great Secret of Prayer…
Here is John Calvin from his Institutes of the Christian Religion expressing a great truth about prayer: “If we would pray fruitfully, we ought therefore to grasp with both hands this assurance of obtaining what we ask, which the Lord enjoins with his own voice, and all the saints teach by their example. For only that Continue reading
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When Jerry Bought the Farm
Christmas break has brought beloved son and guest blogger, Josh Knowlton, home from Wheaton College. Today he weaves a tale for us… It was the year 2050 and the end of the world was imminent. The advanced alien race—called the Barbylons by the humans—had taken over the entire world. Burning down entire civilizations and harvesting earth’s precious Continue reading
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The Prayer of Faith
And Jesus answered them, “Truly, I say to you, if you have faith and do not doubt, you will not only do what has been done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and thrown into the sea,’ it will happen. Matthew 21:21 (ESV) There are a few Continue reading
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Do You Have a Little Faith…or a Lot?
As Christians, we know that we are called to have faith, certainly a faith that saves. (Ephesians 2:8, 9) But Scripture also seems to speak of a type of faith beyond that, the faith we are called to “exercise” daily, a faith that “moves mountains.” (Matthew 17:20) In this area, some Christians apparently have more faith than others. Continue reading
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Why Do I Need to Repent if Salvation is by Grace Through Faith?
For years I was confused about the call to repentance in the Bible. I knew that salvation was by grace through faith, and yet I wondered about the emphasis on repentance which I saw in the New Testament. This emphasis is certainly all over the place, and so it’s clear that to become a Christian, a Continue reading
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A Declaration of Dependence
Jesus not only loves the little children, He also demands that all of His followers be just like them… And they were bringing children to him that he might touch them, and the disciples rebuked them. But when Jesus saw it, he was indignant and said to them, “Let the children come to me; do not hinder Continue reading
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