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More than just a birthday
A birthday, however, is just the beginning. There is growing up that must follow. A Christianity that focuses and spends too much resources at Christmas compared to the other festivals misses the opportunity to develop well-rounded followers. Christmas is more than just the celebration of the birth of Jesus. We read in Romans 8:3 (The […]
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Constant Practice
The mature is described as “those who have their powers of discernment trained by constant practice to distinguish between good and evil”. Hebrews 5:14, (ESV) Presently, there is a trendy fascination with training. Many different kinds of courses, seminars, degree programmes and weekend workshops are available for those seeking them. The growth of this industry […]
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Defeating Enemies Within
Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul.1 Peter 2:11 (ESV) Who is this enemy? … They are the natural selfish human desires whose sole purpose is to find satisfaction outside of the influence and control of God’s Spirit. We hear […]
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Must I confess my sins?
When we do confess, our fellowship with the Father is restored. He extends His parental forgiveness. He cleanses us of all unrighteousness, thus removing the consequences of the previously unconfessed sin. For when I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long. For day and night your hand was heavy upon […]
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Tourists and pilgrims
Pilgrims in the countryside, Way of St. James “Pilgrims go to be transformed in their spirit and seek how God works out His will and plans in that place.” RETURNING FROM A RETREAT with our Cambodian Methodist pastors, I pondered my now-frequent visits to Cambodia with the question: Am I there as a tourist, or as […]
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Revelations about revivals
IF YOU ARE SOMEONE who is very keen on advocating revival today, I wonder whether you are aware of what that might say about you and your church. When we call for revival, we are saying that something is not right with the spiritual state of the church. A body needs revival only when it […]
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Spirit Search
AMONG THE FASCINATING things in modern technology are software tools called search engines which you can use to trawl the World Wide Web. The most popular among them are Google, Bing, and Yahoo. Key in words or phrases related to the information you seek, and you may find what you want from the long list […]
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Too scared to share the Gospel?
Hand giving the Bible to another person IT IS A SUBJECT that has been raised countless times. Why do followers of Christ find it hard to talk about Him and share the Gospel? It is basically a matter of fear. Like in many areas of life, fear operates where in reality the perceived grounds for […]
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God’s Grace and imperfect parenting
IT HAS BEEN ALMOST thirty years of parenting. I am amazed at how my two children have turned out as adults, and I am grateful to God. They are not perfect children, and neither are my wife and I perfect parents. But I am happy with how they are shaping up to be. There were […]
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Alive, raised and seated with Christ
“BUT GOD, BEING RICH IN MERCY, because of the great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ – by grace you have been saved – and raised us up with Him and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ […]
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In Christ alone
WHY DOES GOD ACT? “The problem arises when we begin to acknowledge God only by His deeds and action, without contemplating who He is so as to understand why He acts in those ways.” THIS SONG IS often heard during Christmas: We are the reason that He gave His life We are the reason […]
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A Johannine Christmas
There is every reason to celebrate the birth of Jesus, but be aware of the danger of cultural distortions EMBELLISHED STORIES “The biblical Christmas stories in Matthew and Luke are wonderful in their beauty and simplicity … but we have embellished the biblical stories with traditions and customs that have been collected over the centuries.” […]
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Mastering two prayers
On trusting GodAnd being grateful to Him WHEN I ONCE ASKED the late John Stott what he considered to be the greatest problem in the church, he gave a one-word answer – superficiality. I cannot agree with him more. Connected to the epidemic of superficiality in the church is the problem of ingratitude. As William […]
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Custody of the tongue
“How can we use our tongues to sing the most sublime praises to God, and then go for lunch after church and enjoy slandering a brother or engage in coarse speech, or go to work on Monday and lie about the products we are selling?” AN EGYPTIAN DESERT FATHER (in the early centuries of the […]
