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Searchlights from the Scriptures: June 2014

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Searchlights from the Scriptures. The unfolding of Your words gives light" Psalm 119:130. Thursday, June 26, 2014. Spurgeon on "Sudden Bereavements". Twice in recent months, I have had the privilege of viewing some of the items in the Spurgeon collection now housed at Midwestern Seminary. At the latter of these two events, the Southern Baptist Convention in Baltimore, the Seminary was giving away posters bearing one of Spurgeon's more notable quotations:. What were our house without its little prattlers?

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Searchlights from the Scriptures: August 2015

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Searchlights from the Scriptures. The unfolding of Your words gives light" Psalm 119:130. Monday, August 31, 2015. Put Away Your Sword (John 18:10-11). This week, we are celebrating something of a milestone here at Immanuel. Though the actual anniversary date is not until September 11, we are prematurely commemorating the fact that you all have patiently and graciously endured my ministry here for a decade! I went to the. Today, the subject of religious warfare is often discussed as we see one example af...

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Searchlights from the Scriptures: January 2015

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Searchlights from the Scriptures. The unfolding of Your words gives light" Psalm 119:130. Monday, January 26, 2015. The Magnificent Promise (John 14:12-18). During the 1920s, the great American missionary, E. Stanley Jones returned from the Indian subcontinent to share about the slow advance of the Gospel there. He told of a conversation that he had with Mahatma Gandhi, in which he asked Gandhi, “What would you suggest that we do” to “see Christianity naturalized in. The Christ whom it claimed to follow.

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Searchlights from the Scriptures: October 2014

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Searchlights from the Scriptures. The unfolding of Your words gives light" Psalm 119:130. Monday, October 27, 2014. A New Commandment (John 13:31-38). Sometimes when things are “new,” they aren’t really “new.” Someone recently asked me if I had heard about the “new” professional basketball team coming to. This year: the Charlotte Hornets. Of course, most of us know that this is not really a “new” team, or a “new” name. This was the name of. And that service commemorates Jesus’ gathering with His di...

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Searchlights from the Scriptures: May 2015

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Searchlights from the Scriptures. The unfolding of Your words gives light" Psalm 119:130. Monday, May 25, 2015. Prone to Wander (John 16:29-32). When Robert Robinson was just an eight-year old boy in 1743, his father died, leaving his mother unable to care for the boy. By age 14, he was sent to. Like Robinson wrote, it seems that within us, we are all “prone to wander, prone to leave the God we love.” Now, you may want to say, “Not me! It will never happen to me! We know it all already! From this, we mov...

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Searchlights from the Scriptures: April 2015

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Searchlights from the Scriptures. The unfolding of Your words gives light" Psalm 119:130. Monday, April 27, 2015. Enduring These Things (John 16:1-4). At that time, Colson and others were calling on American Christians, who enjoyed almost unlimited religious freedom, to rise up and speak out about these atrocities committed elsewhere in the world. Today, this persecution is beginning to rear its ugly head even here at home as our liberties are becoming more and more restricted. Of discipleship,” Je...

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Searchlights from the Scriptures: June 2015

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Searchlights from the Scriptures. The unfolding of Your words gives light" Psalm 119:130. Monday, June 29, 2015. Keep Calm and Carry On. Keep Calm and Carry On. In 1939, the British government developed a campaign to reassure frightened and anxious citizens in the face of impending German blitzkrieg bombardments of the. I God defines what marriage is. So they are no longer two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate” (Matt 19:4-9). Indicates “sexually immoral&#82...

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Searchlights from the Scriptures: March 2015

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Searchlights from the Scriptures. The unfolding of Your words gives light" Psalm 119:130. Monday, March 23, 2015. Love One Another (John 15:12-17). In his best-selling book The Five Love Languages,. Gary Chapman says, “Love is the most important word in the English language—and the most confusing.” [1]. The Greeks had at least four distinct words to describe the various aspects of that spectrum of actions and emotions that we lump under the heading of the single English word love. But how we act. Believe...

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Searchlights from the Scriptures: The Lord's Prayer List (John 17:6-9)

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Searchlights from the Scriptures. The unfolding of Your words gives light" Psalm 119:130. Monday, July 06, 2015. The Lord's Prayer List (John 17:6-9). However, have only recently begun to see the wolves’ fangs. We are experiencing the reality of being sheep in the midst of wolves, and it is discomforting and discouraging. So, what comfort and what courage can be found for us as live as Christ’s sheep in this world of wolves? In verse 9 of our text, Jesus says, “I ask on their behalf. Former President Ron...