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The Gospel Changes Everything

THE CENTRALITY OF THE GOSPEL In Galatians 2:14, Paul lays down a powerful principle. He deals with Peter's racial pride and cowardice by declaring that he was not living "in line with the truth of the gospel". From this we see that the Christian life is a process of renewing every dimension of our life-- spiritual, psychological, corporate, social--by thinki...

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True Spirituality: The Transforming Power of the Gospel

In the preface to his book, True Spirituality, the late Christian leader and author Francis Schaeffer referred to a problem that led him to a point of great spiritual crisis in his life. He called it the "problem of reality" (1971:i). After being in the gospel ministry for many years, he said the problem came to him in two parts. First, he observed that among many of thos...

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Finding Happiness In The New Year

Once a friend asked me a simple, yet haunting question. He asked, "Sam, are you happy?" My impulse was to answer with nervous certainty, "Of course. Things are well. What do you mean? Yes, I'm happy." After he left, though, I sat in silence and began to wrestle with my insecurities that his snooping question stirred: "What does he mean, 'Are you happy?' What kind of ques...

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Christmas Gloom and the Wonderful Counselor

But there will be no gloom for her who was in anguish . . . The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; those who dwelt in a land of deep darkness, on them has light shone . . . For to us a child is born . . . and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor . . . (Isaiah) "Gloom." Not exactly the first word that comes to mind at Christmas time, is it?But, ...

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Fleeing Idols In Corinth -- Mississippi, That Is

Idolatry In Every Day Life...

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The Rarest Jewel

Four years ago, the Pink Star Diamond, a 59.6 carat behemoth, sold at a Sotheby's auction for $83 million dollars nearly $1.3 million per carat! Enthusiasts labelled it the world's most prized and rare jewel. As we know, the rarer something is, the more precious and priceless it becomes. Four hundred years ago, a minister named Jeremiah Burroughs wrote about another je...

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