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It stinks! This whole place stinks.
You don’t like my house? Does my house stink? That’s right-it stinks! This whole place stinks. 1 John 1:9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us...
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Jesus’ Great Prayer of Compassion: “Father Forgive Them”
Luke 23:34a Then Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they do.” At the beginning of Jesus’ crucifixion, I suppose just after the soldiers had nailed Him to the cross and...
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3 Ways to Get Rid of the Sin and Darkness that Overcomes Us
I think we all understand the temptation to sin. We understand that there is a devil that temps us, that we have sinful flesh, and that the world is also tempting us. But what is really difficult...
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God’s Grace after Sin
After a Christian sins there is always remorse and hopefully repentance. But if you don’t remember what Christ has done for you and what grace He has offered you, there may be undue shame and...
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How to Receive and Be Cleansed By God’s Forgiveness
God’s forgiveness is a gift that we receive by faith. Just as we were saved by His grace through faith (Eph. 2:8-9), His constant, day by day forgiveness also comes by grace through faith. We...
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Five Reasons Why Forgiving Another Seems So Difficult
1. Pride. Pride I think is the main reason why it’s so hard to forgive. Pride makes it harder for us to trust God. We say to ourselves, I don’t want to forgive, and I don’t have to! And so in our...
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The Essence of Sin
I just finished reading the book Spiritual Depression, by D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones. This blog is a short summary of the essential points of chapter two: The True Foundation. The way I see the truths of...
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Blessed Are They That Mourn
This second Beatitude follows closely after the first—“Blessed are the poor in spirit…”—and has a vital connection to it. We will look first at the meaning of mourn and then later we will show why...
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How We Can Pray For the World: Three Areas of Prayer
Just before Jesus ascended to heaven He told His disciples that as soon as He arrived He would send the Holy Spirit back to them. Then He said, “And when He has come, He will convict the world of...
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The Mortification of Sin
Jesus deals with this topic of the mortification of sin in Matthew 5:29-30. “And if your right eye makes you stumble, tear it out, and throw it from you; for it is better for you that one of the parts...
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