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Saturday, April 25, 2009. Sam Storms on Saving and Common Grace. All Christians know that divine grace is the unmerited favor and mercy of God that saves sinners from a well-deserved eternal death, but few have given thought to the concept of common grace. How is it that men who still lie under the wrath and curse of God and are heirs of hell enjoy so many good gifts at the hand of God? The answer to these questions is found in the distinction the Bible draws between God's common, or non-saving, grace an...
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more: wrong soaked all through me, take 2
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Saturday, October 16, 2010. Wrong soaked all through me, take 2. A scene from one of. George MacDonald's children's books — called The Princess and Curdie—. Illustrates this point. . Early in the novel the young boy Curdie thoughtlessly. Shoots an arrow into a white pigeon. Suddenly overcome by remorse, he. Carries the wounded bird to an old, old princess to see if anything can be done. To save it. But the woman is even more concerned about the boy than she is. The whole day, and such a many days besides!
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more: Psalter Hymnal 464: Father, long before creation | Hymnary.org
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Thursday, March 04, 2010. Psalter Hymnal 464: Father, long before creation Hymnary.org. I love this song:. This anonymous Chinese text was initially used as a theme song by Chinese Christians who kept the faith while the Cultural Revolution was in full swing. The hymn was sung in a Bible-study center in Peking during the winter of 1952-53. In 1953, Bliss Wyant, scholar of Chinese music and culture, gave the text to Francis P. Jones (b. Wisconsin [? 1890; d. Claremont, CA, 1965 [?
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Thursday, March 04, 2010. Psalter Hymnal 464: Father, long before creation Hymnary.org. I love this song:. This anonymous Chinese text was initially used as a theme song by Chinese Christians who kept the faith while the Cultural Revolution was in full swing. The hymn was sung in a Bible-study center in Peking during the winter of 1952-53. In 1953, Bliss Wyant, scholar of Chinese music and culture, gave the text to Francis P. Jones (b. Wisconsin [? 1890; d. Claremont, CA, 1965 [?
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more: January 2009
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Friday, January 30, 2009. Christ's Impact on Widows. American feminists should take their complaints overseas Andrée Seu. I would be marginalized at best, inhabiting the netherworld between normal existence and the grave. I would be shorn of my hair and denied permission to partake in family meals, would sleep on the ground, and be generally fenced from polite society by pollution taboos—if I were a widow in parts of India today. Theoretically a voluntary act, Sati was in practice reduced to murder, as t...
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Saturday, March 14, 2009. How could world-wide preaching of gospel happened in 33-70AD? This is from Sam Storms. who is looking at a parallel passage to Mark 13. Matthew 24. Preaching of gospel to whole world. 8 Worldwide preaching of the gospel (v. 14). This leads to the second point. B Writing before the fall of Jerusalem in 70 a.d., Paul says to the Colossians:. Again, Paul refers to the gospel. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). How could world-wide preaching of gospel happened .
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more: Egyptian Slaves
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Saturday, October 16, 2010. They worked out in the hot Egyptian sun all day (often in temperatures over. 100°), driven to optimum production by their taskmasters. They had no hats. To protect their heads and wore nothing but a brief kilt or apron on their. Bodies. . . . A wealthy Egyptian father talked with his son about the condition. Of their bricklayers. He observed that their “kidneys suffer because. Ribbons by the cruel work.” And they have to “knead all sorts of muck.”. From tedium to Te Deum.
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more: February 2009
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Saturday, February 14, 2009. See the discussion in Lane to the effect that this period of time may indeed be more than a. Single week, perhaps a period as long as six months. Lane, The Gospel According to Mark, 390-391. Cranfield argues that the messianic significance of this would not have been noticed by the crowds,. Despite Jesus’ deliberate actions in fulfilling prophecy. I’m not convinced. (Cf. Cranfield, The Gospel. According to Mark, 352-354). Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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more: Thoughts on catholic/worldwide
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Thursday, October 21, 2010. This is from packer's great little book. Affirming the Apostles' Creed. In the intro he writes:. Created and animated by the Holy Spirit,. The church is the community of believers living through God. And to God, the Father and the Son, in a sustained pattern. Of worship, work, and witness. (This is why the church is. Called “holy,” which means set apart for God.) It is the worldwide. People of God and body of Christ, in whose faith and. So, here's the line of thought:. That wo...
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more: August 2009
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Thursday, August 27, 2009. The Chief End of Animals, Part 1. The Chief End of Animals, Part 1. Ron Lutjens ,. Issue Number 16,. In this article Ron Lutjens has looked at the need for a theology of animals. In the article here. Covenant Seminary professor Michael Williams discusses what, precisely, that theology should be. O God, enlarge within us the sense of fellowship with all living things, our brothers the animals to whom thou gavest the earth as their home in common with us. At one end of the spectr...
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