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Pope Francis and Roman Catholic Charismaticism
Here’s an interesting article from today’s Crux: https://cruxnow.com/vatican/2018/12/10/bishop-on-new-oversight-body-says-pope-has-affinity-for-charismatics/ Summary: “At the request of Pope Francis, the Vatican has established a new body to oversee the global Catholic Charismatic Renewal.” At first Francis questioned the legitimacy of Catholic charismatics, but as he has seen the effect on others his skepticism has changed to enthusiasm. NOTE: experience, Read more
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The Golden Rule
If you’d like to stir the pot, tell folks that the “Golden Rule” doesn’t apply to everyone. If you’d really like to stir the pot, say the same thing about the entire sermon encompassing the Golden Rule (Matthew 5-7, the “Sermon on the Mount”). Lest one think my dispensational convictions have carried me too far, listen Read more
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Mesopotamia
Not that Mesopotamia, but the Ohio Mesopotamia, called “Mespo” for short. 🙂 Last night I took my family for ice cream to Ohio’s oldest general store, End of the Commons. They have great sugar-free butter pecan ice cream! Afterward we wandered the area a bit. We made our way to the cemetery across the street from the Read more
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The Effect of Unbelief in Ministers
In Words to Winners of Souls Horatius Bonar challenges us in the Lord’s service: Thus did they preach and thus did they hear in those days of terror and death. Men were in earnest then, both in speaking and hearing. There was no coldness, no languor, no studied oratory. Truly they preached as dying men to dying Read more
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Preach as a Dying Man to Dying Men
In Words to Winners of Souls Horatius Bonar now directs us toward needed actions in the Lord’s service: Many of our readers have seen, we doubt not, a small volume of Vincent, the non-conformist minister, respecting the great plague and fire in London. Its title is “God’s Terrible Voice in the City.” In it there is a Read more
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Labor On Until the End
In Words to Winners of Souls Horatius Bonar now directs us toward needed actions in the Lord’s service: “When do you intend to stop?” was the question once put by a friend to Rowland Hill. “Not till we have carried all before us,” was the prompt reply. Such is our answer too. The fields are vast, Read more
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