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 11/12/17 4:36 PM |
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(TMC) @John UK
Blessings to you as well! I’m glad you enjoyed the article and it sounds like you have some great fellowship going on over there! Being sick, we had to miss out on our gathering of the Church today.
 We instead listened to “The Profile of an Authentic Gospel Ministry” (tinysa.com/sermon/1022171729580) and I’m part way through reading this sermon of Spurgeon’s:
http://www.romans45.org/spurgeon/sermons/1910.htm
I’m afraid sharing the Gospel is an area I fail miserably in. I’m thinking that perhaps getting some good solid tracts and even just leaving them in places might be a good place to start. I’ve this nagging fear that I’ll butcher it somehow, even though I know that nothing I can do will keep God’s Elect from Him.
I hope the rest of your Lord’s Day is Blessed! |
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| 11/2/17 2:42 PM |
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(TMC) @Frank
The name of the church we attend is Immanuel Christian Fellowship, but we do not have a web address. (We really don’t have a street address either since we meet in either a rented building or the Elder’s barn depending on the season!)  |
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| 10/31/17 7:36 AM |
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Interestingly enough, Washington referenced more Scripture in a short, one sentence letter, than JL quotes in an average week. In fact, the most commonly used word throughout his writings is “Providence”, a word totally at odds with the basic deism described in JL‘s quote. He also DID take communion throughout his life, as many eye-witnesses attested in their writtings. He did not, however, take it at the Anglican church during the War of Independence, given both the many prayers for the head of the Anglican church (King George III) that were involved with that service, and the fellowshiping or “Communion” with that tyrant that participating would imply. He instead took it at the churches of other denominations during that time. Also of note, is the fact that he regularly traveled 9 miles (about 3 hours) to Pohick Church when there was actually a preacher giving a sermon- about once a month. When a preacher was not presiding over the service the Washington family stayed home and read sermons. Peter Lillback’s book “George Washington’s Sacred Fire” (a 1,187 page tome) is an wonderful, well footnoted, resource on this topic. |
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| 10/20/17 11:15 AM |
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(TMC) @Christopher000
“I'm trying to figure out how to answer that question if actions are off-limits in the response..”I could be wrong, but I don’t think it is the actions that are off limits, but rather the credit for the actions. “For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.”~ Philipians 2:13 We repent and believe, but only because God has enabled us to do so by His Grace and the work of the Holy Spirit. So maybe the response could be something like, “I know I am saved because the Lord drew me to Him, softened my rebelious, sinful heart, and enabled me to repent of my sins and believe in Him and His righteousness as the only means of Salvation.” On a side note, while I know that’s what happened, that doesn’t mean I understand it. Just like I know that God is one, yet three persons; that He is Sovereign over everthing, yet not the author of sin; and that He has no beginning and no end. Since God IS God, then it makes sense that His creatures will not be able to comprehend everything about Him, especially this side of Heaven! Blessings! |
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| 10/8/17 12:59 PM |
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(TMC) “Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.” ~ John 15:16 “According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:” ~ Ephesians 1:4 “These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful.” ~ Revelation 17:14 |
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| 10/7/17 6:28 AM |
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There are many good reasons not to celebrate Halloween. However, the idea that children simply dressing up gives Satan ownership over them and changes their identity is an un-Scriptural superstition. Our Lord’s “legal rights” are non-negotiable-
“The word which God sent unto the children of Israel, preaching peace by Jesus Christ: (he is Lord of all” ~ Acts 10:36 |
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| 9/21/17 12:18 PM |
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(TMC) @Shane
Have you ever read “How Should We Then Live” by Francis Shaeffer? Both the arts and the sciences were revolutionized, not by the age of reason, but by the Reformation. Prior to that, the RCC dogmatically expounded the Greek concepts of the universe and anything else (such as Eliptical Orbits and Heliocentrisity) was considered heresy. Not because of conflict with Scripture, but because it contadicted the pagan philosophy of circles being the sign of perfection that had been adopted wholesale. But when the ancient conflict between universals and particulars was solved with the Gospel centered on the Infinite- Personal God, then people began to apply the implications of Christianity to all areas and questions of life. That is what insipired so many to study creation and to discover scientific laws! Before it had been an exercise in futility, but now it had (and has) God-given meaning! We explore and test and question because it is our Father’s creation and He has given us dominion over all the works of His hands!
Yes, the world can be bleak. And, yes, evil men plot and plan for their own ends. But, Praise the Lord, He is Sovereign over all! And, He has told us that He holds such men in dirision, and uses them to accomplish His Good Ends!!! |
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