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“Deck the Hall with Bowels of Holly” is a totally different song #misheardlyrics
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"Be strong, all you people of the land, declares the Lord. Work, for I am with you, declares the Lord of hosts.” Haggai 2:4. Not: you don’t need to work, for I am with you. Not: you must do the work, for I am not with you. But: work, for I am with you. (Philippians 2:13)
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Piper: “Nothing pleases Satan more than when creatures distrust and disobey their Maker. Expose his life-destroying lies.” desiringgod.org/articles/chr…
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We often know that the Old Testament is about Jesus, but we rarely know how. Here is one simple framework for finding him on every page. desiringgod.org/articles/whe…
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The devil cannot make you sin. He can suggest sin. He can tempt. He can lie and scheme. But in Christ, by his Spirit, you always have the power to resist.
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John Piper: “The fight for joy is a battle to be fought alongside comrades. We do not fight alone. To be a Christian is to be a part of the body of Christ.” desiringgod.org/books/when-i…
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To read documents from the Chinese Christians themselves about the present testing, and how they are responding to it, consider these seven. stevechilders.org/5862-2-2-5…
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Not just every book in your Bible, but every single page has something to say about Jesus. desiringgod.org/articles/whe…
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We are either on the side of life or the side of death.
The lives of innocent children are at stake. #DefundPP
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I was lost, I believed the wisdom of the world, my knowledge was in error.
It was God who gave me salvation, it is HIS wisdom and the knowledge I now have is what HE has given me!
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The Sexual Revolution brought us...
>the Pill
>the disconnect between sex & responsibility
>a rampant hook-up & divorce culture
>millions of aborted children
>the single-mother home which produced...
>daughters that resent men
>weakened, feminized sons
This isn't progress.
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Young people, search after an instructive minister; seek after instructive books; search the Scriptures, and seek to be instructed: that is your principal business.
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In response to apologetics, skeptics sometimes complain that God's message shouldn't be so complicated. Well, it isn't. Our objections complicate things, but the message of salvation is very simple: God is the sovereign creator of all things, and Jesus died to save you.
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I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected & reluctant convert in all England. I did not then see what is now the most shining & obvious thing; the Divine humility which will accept a convert even on such terms.
#CSLewis – at Oxford, England
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“Whoever brings blessing will be enriched, and one who waters will himself be watered.” Proverbs 11:25
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To become a Christian is to awaken from the blindness of spiritual death and find Jesus all-sufficient and all-satisfying. desiringgod.org/articles/how…
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We must hate error, we must abhor falsehood; but we must not hate men, for God’s warfare is against sin. May God help us always to make that distinction.
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No other document is more central to human history, and no other ancient text has more clear historical support than the Bible. You can confidently stake your life on its claims. desiringgod.org/messages/nei…