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Saved By God, From God, For God

by Rev. John SamsonChristians are notorious for using a vocabulary that is not always understood by those around them. There's no doubt that we have our own lingo and jargon.One such word is the word...

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“What are Our Privileges in Christ?

by Sinclair B. Ferguson“What are our privileges? They are truly amazing:“For you have not come to what may be touched, a blazing fire and darkness and gloom and a tempest… But you have come to Mount...

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Does God Ever Change His Mind?

by Sam StormsAll people are fickle, in varying degrees. I suspect we’d be shocked to learn how many times in the course of a normal day we change our plans, reverse course, or pull out an eraser to...

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Moral Improvement or Total Replacement?

Christianity is not about behavior modification or making yourself a better person. We are too far gone to perfect ourselves by patchwork or a few improvements. Rather, the old edifice is so rotten...

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Why Does God Choose Some and Leave Others in their Wretched Blindness?

by John Calvin"For if a man asks us why God has chosen us, why he has enlightened us, and hath left so many miserable and wretched in blindness, why he changed us and turned us to him by his Holy...

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The Bible's Description of Man's Condition Evidences the Divine Inspiration...

“An incomprehensibly holy God with such a hatred of sin would never have been conceived of by any of Adam’s fallen descendants because this would have required an admission of guilt.... The description...

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Praying for Magistrates and for All in Authority

by John CalvinWe must not only pray for the faithful, who are our brothers already, but for those who are very far off, those poor unbelievers.  Even though there seems to be a great distance and a...

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Elect Exiles of the Diaspora

"To those who are elect exiles of the Diaspora..." 1 Peter 1:1The Elect: the objects of God's undeserved mercy - rebellious sinners who are privileged, through no merit of their own, to have received...

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Why Some People Lose Faith

by Steve HaysWhy do folks like Bart Ehrman lose their faith? There are different reasons people lose faith. In some cases, it's due to a personal tragedy, or succumbing to sexual temptation. According...

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What sins are we to turn from, there are so many of them?

Visitor: What sins are we to turn from there are so many of them?Response:  Thanks for your inquiry.  As for what sins to turn from, fist and foremost, by grace, you must turn from trusting in your own...

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Excuses For Not Praying

by D.A. CarsonPages 111-121I Am Too BusyLillian Guild tells an amusing story of an occasion when she and her husband were driving along and happened to notice a late-model Cadillac with its hood up,...

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How May I Know I Am Saved?

A. W. Pink answers the question this way:First, by the Word of God having come in divine power to the soul so that my self-complacency is shattered and my self-righteousness is renounced. Second, by...

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12 Prayers for God to Bring Your Friends to Know Christ

"Unless the Holy Ghost blesses the Word, we who preach the gospel are of all men most miserable, for we have attempted a task that is impossible. We have entered on a sphere where nothing but the...

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Fear of God or Fear of Man?

by C. H. Spurgeon“Fear not, you worm Jacob, and you men of Israel; I will help you, says the LORD, and your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.” – Isaiah 41:14.Make a man afraid—he will flee at his own...

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Sinners Worse than those in Sodom and Gomorrah

If the mighty works, which have been done in thee [Capernaum], had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day. But I say unto you, That it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom...

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Christ Died for Sinners

Syndicated Column by Steve HaysIn 5-point Calvinism, is limited atonement and/or limited election in tension with the universal offer of the gospel?  i) God doesn't directly offer the gospel to every...

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No One Beyond the Reach of Prayer

by A. W. Pink "Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do" (Luke 23:34)This first of the seven cross-sayings of Jesus presents Him in the attitude of prayer. His public...

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Sanctification via Union With Christ

God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are, so that no human being might boast in the presence of God. He is the source of your life...

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Key Quotes from Answering Jihad by Nabeel Qureshi

If we define Islam, not as the practice of Muslims, but as the teachings of Muhammad then violence is an integral part of Islam. Those Muslims who teach that surah 9 of the Quran has not been abrogated...

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Follow the Lord Wherever He Leads

by John CalvinALTHOUGH the Law of God contains a perfect rule of conduct admirably arranged, it has seemed proper to our divine Master to train his people by a more accurate method, to the rule which...

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