Category: Encouragement
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What Science Can’t Do
A couple great testimonies by men at the top of their respective scientific fields who also happen to believe in things like bodily resurrection. Ian Hutchinson, professor of nuclear science and engineering at MIT: “We really believe in the bodily resurrection of the first century Jew known as Jesus of Nazareth. My Christian colleagues at MIT…
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Jesus the True Pontifex
Would you have your Savior to be one who is near to God, so that his meditation might be prevalent with him? And can you desire him to be nearer to God than Christ is, who is his only begotten Son, of the same essence with the Father? And would you not only have him…
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The Shepherd is the Lamb
Though Christ be now at the right-hand of God, exalted as King of heaven, and Lord of the universe; yet as he still is in the human nature, he still excels in humility. Though the man Christ Jesus be the highest of all creatures in heaven, yet he as much excels them all in humility…
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Of Course He’s Not Safe
Here is a strong foundation, and an inexhaustible treasure, to answer the necessities of your poor soul, and here is infinite grace and gentleness to invite and embolden a poor, unworthy, fearful soul to come to it. If Christ accepts of you, you need not fear but that you will be safe, for he is…
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You’re Only in a Rut if it Sucks
“…but the vast majority of your days — likely a day like today — will pass into obscurity…”
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That’s Not How Any of this Works.
People do not drift toward Holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith, and delight in the Lord. We drift toward compromise and call it tolerance; we drift toward disobedience and call it freedom; we drift toward superstition and call it faith. We cherish the indiscipline of…