JULY 11 After you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace … will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you. 1 Peter 5:10 You have seen the arch of heaven as it spans the plain: Glorious are its colors, and rare its hues. It is beautiful, but, sadly, it passes away, and…
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JUNE 7 O you who love the Lord, hate evil! (Psalm 97:10) You have good reason to “hate evil,” for just consider what harm it has already caused you. What a world of mischief sin has brought into your heart! Sin blinded you so that you could not see the beauty of the Savior; it…
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JUNE 1 And there was evening and there was morning, the first day. (Genesis 1:5) Was it so even in the beginning? Did light and darkness divide the realm of time in the first day? Then it should be no surprise if I have also changes in my circumstances from the sunshine of prosperity to…
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APRIL 30 And all the people of Israel grumbled. (Numbers 14:2) There are grumblers among Christians now, just as there were in the camp of Israel of old. There are those who, when punished, cry out against the affliction. They ask, “Why am I afflicted? What have I done to be chastened in this manner?”…
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“O Lord, make me know my end and what is the measure of my days; let me know how fleeting I am! Behold, you have made my days a few handbreadths, and my lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely all mankind stands as a mere breath!” (Psalm 39:4-5). I was 19 years old when…
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The message of the cross is not, “Your sins are forgiven — now man up and stop complaining!”. No, as Isaiah says…
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During our days in University, the internet cafes were literally havens for pornography. It was the early 2000s, and these had just become popular. There were roughly about four internet centres at the time, spread across a few halls of residence. Some student users frequented sexually explicit websites so much so that any time one logged…
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A study in 2007 showed that both men and women speak approximately 16,000 words per day. According to Wikipedia, books written for children are about 16,000 words long and the average novel about 60,000-80,000 words long. Going by the average person’s spoken- words-count, each of us writes at least 8 books a month with our words—a…
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Walking through the British Museum in London, on a rainy Saturday afternoon in November 2016, I came upon this exhibit with the following inscription: Saints are exemplary Christians, many of whom died for their faith. Their shrines attracted large numbers of medieval pilgrims as a way of demonstrating piety and repentance. Many hoped to receive…
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In the previous article, we established that not all conversions are genuine — not all that glitters is gold. In this second part, we will go on to see the permanent characteristics of genuine conversion as we can glean from Scripture. Counterfeit Conversions In dealing with non-genuine conversions, one can distinguish between two kinds: temporal…
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