For you are a Holy People to the LORD your God; the LORD your God has chosen you to be a People for Himself, a special treasure above all the peoples on the face of the earth. The LORD did not set His love on you nor choose you because you were more in number […]
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Do not think that I came to bring peace on earth. I did not come to bring peace but a sword. Matthew 10:34 The pronouncement made by Jesus is dramatic. It really catches us off guard. The angels sang at the first Christmas, “Glory to God in the highest and peace on earth to
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For when we were still helplessly feeble, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly… while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, having now been justified by His Blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him. For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God through
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So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate. Genesis 3:6 Alexander MacLaren, in a sermon entitled “Faith Tested
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In those days John the Baptist came, preaching in the Desert of Judea and saying, “Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is near.” This is he who was spoken of through the prophet Isaiah: “A voice of one calling in the desert, ‘Prepare the way for the Lord, make straight paths for Him.’” Matthew
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The first came before him, saying, “Lord, your pound has made ten pounds more.” And he said to him, “Well done, good servant! Because you have been faithful in a very little, you shall have authority over ten cities.” Luke 19:16-17 [11-27] During a sermon, the country preacher said to his congregation, “Now
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But this is the Covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write it upon their hearts and I will their God, and they shall be My People. Jeremiah 31:33 In an article titled “Beware of men”,
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While we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. Why, one will hardly die for a righteous man – though perhaps for a good man one will dare even to die. But God shows His love for us in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us. Since,
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We preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a stumbling block and to the Greeks foolishness, but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the Power of God and the Wisdom of God I Corinthians 1:23-24 Disney’s Pollyanna is a feel-good movie about a girl, orphaned from missionary parents, who would always
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I, the Lord, have called You in righteousness; I will take hold of Your hand I will guard You, i will make You be a Covenant for the People and a Light for the Gentiles. Isaiah 42:6 The difficulty in this text is to catch the exuberance which surrounds it. These seven verses from Isaiah
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