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In ten months I will be [...]
There is no such thing as a “gay Christian”. “Gay” and “Christian” are antonyms…Every time you speak the name of Jesus joined to your lifestyle, you trample under foot the blood of the covenant by which you were sanctified (Heb. 10:29). “Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be thought worthy who has” done this!
Some hold it as a doctrine while others have simply absorbed the assumption that the Law of God was for another day and does not apply today. Some believe the Law of God is for the Christian only and that it does not apply to the unbeliever or to the social order. Many believe that [...]
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Thy Kingdom Come
by Eugene Clingman
(To the tune of For All the Saints)
O Glorious Son You asked the Father true
Give Me the nations in justice to subdue[1]
So will all peoples bow and worship You[2]
Alleluia, Alleluia!
Then said the Father to incarnate Son
Sit at my right hand as My will is done[3]
Til every nation by My zeal is [...]
What is the primary need for the nations of the world and for our own nation? Is it righteous political leaders? I pray that we and each nation may have righteous leaders, and indeed we should seek such to rule us for, “When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; but when a wicked [...]
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In 2006 the International Church Council Project made public the document titled, The Education of Christian Children which succinctly outlines two areas: 1) the Bible requires Christians to educate their children into the Christian worldview and that giving Christian children to a non-Christian system of education is contrary to God’s command to love Him with [...]
We call to mind that the woman was “caught” in adultery which obviously means the man was also “caught”, yet they brought only the woman. This is in direct violation of the law of God that both parties in such a case are equally responsible and subject to the punishments of God’s law. The verse above is an eloquent exposition of exactly what is going on here. They had a double standard. They wanted their women to be faithful and pure but the men would not live this way themselves.
I believe the most debilitating defect in the Body of Christ today is the lack of understanding and application of God’s Law. The larger portion of Evangelical Christians are antinomian (which means “against law”).
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I remembered how I have sometimes corrected my children with a sharp tongue and pondered how it must feel for a small child to be corrected in such a way. Surely at times it is terrifying and might feel the possibility of being brought “to nothing.”
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