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Buy the Truth and Sell It Not

How much does salvation cost?  The LORD says, “You shall be redeemed without money.”  (Isaiah 52:3).  So, why does salvation seem to cost so much money?  Why did religious merchants set up shop in the temple at Jerusalem?  Why do … Continue reading

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Practicing Righteousness (Loving your Neighbor)

The book of 1 John is the key book for understanding this term “practicing righteousness.”  In chapter 1, verse 6 he calls it “practicing the truth.”  In 2:29, 3:7, and 3:10  he calls it “practicing righteousness.”  In 3:4 John tells … Continue reading

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Practicing Righteousness

John tells us in 1 John 3:9-10 that we can very easily discern who are children of the devil and who are children of God.  Some people learn a little true doctrine, like that represented in the novel called The … Continue reading

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The Last Trumpet: Practicing Righteousness

Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness.  [5] You know that he appeared to take away sins, and in him there is no sin.  [6] No one who abides in him keeps on sinning; … Continue reading

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Mercy Triumphs Over Judgment (but what does that mean?)

I recently commended the book entitled The Shack by William Paul Young.  I find that I no longer can because so many take its primary teaching and distort it into lawlessness.   The book teaches a profound truth about God’s forgiveness and … Continue reading

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The Truth

Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father except by me.”  Yet, Gandhi said, “If Christians actually practiced what the Christ taught, all India would be Christian” and “I like your … Continue reading

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The Shack

I try to understand but I see I fail again I want to love you more but I’m blinded by the door that keeps me in this flesh I’m a box of do’s and don’ts a mix of wills and … Continue reading

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The Cross

The cross… I rarely write about it; it hurts too much because it costs so much, my life and yours. The cross… crossroads into life – “No one comes to the Father unless he comes through me,” said he who … Continue reading

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A Song & Poem of the Bride

                                YOUR BEAUTY How can your beauty be described? The toddling twos the infant’s eyes the mother’s milk that feeds How can your beauty be described? The fig and vine the year’s new wine the fruit from your pure seeds … Continue reading

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BE

God calls us to be like him.  What is he?  What are his characteristics?  We who have believed in Jesus as LORD and Savior have received the earnest of His Spirit.  So, let’s start with the fruit of the Holy … Continue reading

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