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A wife of noble character, who can find? Proverbs 31:10
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Self-sufficient humanism. Paul saw it coming – “lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God.”
Imago Dei
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So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.
Why Can't I Pray?
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The bible gives us several reasons, but according to Jeremy Taylor, a deceitful heart is at the root of prayerlessness.
It's Not Rocket Science
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To keep in step with the Spirit should be our daily quest. And if we are successful at that, all of life falls into place.
Theological Steak
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These words by P. T. Forsythe on the magnificence of Christ's work are to theology what Ruth's Chris is to a good steak.
Describing the Indescribable
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What we have in Christ will take all eternity to describe. But for one segment of one sermon, a great preacher made a mighty attempt.
Making Sense Of It All
January 30, 2012
Where are things headed? Is there rhyme and reason to the endless cycle of summer, fall, winter and spring? Is there a plan in place, or is randomness the explanation?
Newton On Catching A Good Wife
July 7, 2008
On "Catching" a Good Wife
Sound advice from John Newton
John Newton, in a letter dated July 15, 1777, refers to a common friend who he says "is in town, very busy about that precious piece of furniture called a wife." And since he's on the topic of marriage, Newton muses about the most important decision of who to marry.
"In Captain Cook's voyage to the South Sea, some fish were caught which looked as well as others, but those who ate of them were poisoned; alas; for the poor man who catches a poisonous wife! There are such to be met with in the matrimonial seas who look passing well to the eye, but a connection with them proves baneful to domestic peace and hurtful to the life of grace. i know two or three people, perhaps a few more, who have great reason to be thankful to Him who sent the fish with the money in its mouth to Peter's hook. He secretly instructed and guided us where to angle; and if we have caught prizes, we owe it not to our own skill, much less to our deserts, but to His goodness."
Sound advice from John Newton
John Newton, in a letter dated July 15, 1777, refers to a common friend who he says "is in town, very busy about that precious piece of furniture called a wife." And since he's on the topic of marriage, Newton muses about the most important decision of who to marry.
"In Captain Cook's voyage to the South Sea, some fish were caught which looked as well as others, but those who ate of them were poisoned; alas; for the poor man who catches a poisonous wife! There are such to be met with in the matrimonial seas who look passing well to the eye, but a connection with them proves baneful to domestic peace and hurtful to the life of grace. i know two or three people, perhaps a few more, who have great reason to be thankful to Him who sent the fish with the money in its mouth to Peter's hook. He secretly instructed and guided us where to angle; and if we have caught prizes, we owe it not to our own skill, much less to our deserts, but to His goodness."
