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The Importance of Doctrine
This sermon began to take shape rather vaguely about three months ago when I read a paragraph in a commentary about the importance of doctrine. Then it really leapt to the forefront of my mind about one month ago when I read an article …
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Navigating the Third Wave
Men have long used the analogy of waves to describe the action of various persistent movements. Generals send wave after wave of soldiers into the battle. Immigrants seem to flow into America in waves by ethnic or national groupings. …
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Making the Cut (Part Two)
While a person is justified only by God's grace through the blood of Jesus Christ, God expects His called-out ones to respond to His merciful election with obedience to His commands and with doing good works leading to character growth …
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Exodus 32:1-6
(1) Now when the people saw that Moses delayed coming down from the mountain, the people gathered together to Aaron, and said to him, "Come, make us gods that shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him." (2) And Aaron said to them, "Break off the golden earrings which are in the ears of your wives, your sons, and your daughters, and bring them to me." (3) So all the people broke off the golden earrings which were in their ears, and brought them to Aaron. (4) And he received the gold from their hand, and he fashioned it with an engraving tool, and made a molded calf. Then they said, "This is your god, O Israel, that brought you out of the land of Egypt!" (5) So when Aaron saw it, he built an altar before it. And Aaron made a proclamation and said, "Tomorrow is a feast to the LORD." (6) Then they rose early on the next day, offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.
In Exodus 32:1-6 is an example of what happens when a leader goes away and does not return within the expected time. It provides a clear-cut example of what was happening to the Ephesian church (Revelation 2:4-5). Moses went up Mount …
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Big-Picture Thinking
by Richard T. RitenbaughEach year, as we flip our Gregorian calendars from December to January, it has become traditional to assess the old year and resolve to amend our faults and shortcomings in the new. Unfortunately, these assessments have devolved into a series of meaningless "Best of" and "Worst of" lists, while the amending of our ways chiefly concerns foods we love to eat, liquids we like to drink, weight we need to lose, and exercise we ought to do. As for real soul-searching and determination to improve one's character, for most, that has passed from the scene with the dodo bird and the passenger …
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