Say what you please, it all boils down to one thing. “What’s that?” The fact that some of us are tired of hearing weak, feeble presentations of the gospel that sometimes come even from those we respect in other ways. “Such as?” Such as ‘Take Jesus into your heart.’ Show me anything comparable to that in …
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There are fascinating developments in store for every true believer. Some of them occur in this life; they will occur to all Christians in the life to come. Ours is not a “dull, somber, uneventful, faith.” It is an exciting one—even now—if and when you enter into it with fullness and determination. “What does that …
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There is nothing esoteric about this article. But to some it may seem so. I say that, because I recognize that there are preachers . . . and then, there are preachers! That is to say, among those who are reading this article there may be conservatives, and a few liberals. There may be Reformed, …
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What should your goals be in that first counseling session? Let me list five goals for you. But remember, no two sessions are alike. When you think you’ve seen ‘em all, along comes a “doosey” that you never dreamed of, let alone expected to encounter. So, what I am speaking about is nothing more than the …
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Let’s think of two ways in which we can fail the Lord. Jeremiah wrote: My people have committed a double evil: They have abandoned Me, the fountain of living water, And dug cisterns for themselves, Cracked cisterns that cannot hold water. —Jeremiah 2:13 (HCSB) Sometimes we think only of one side or the other of …
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