Category: Sin
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Ezekiel 9
In Ezekiel 9 the prophet saw a vision where Jerusalem was slaughtered because of their great wickedness. God commissioned an angel to mark any in Jerusalem who had remorse and regret over the sins taking place in the city (vv. 4-6). Those bearing this mark would be delivered from judgment. Only one…
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Sin Has a Thousand Treach’rous Arts
Sin has a thousand treach’rous arts To practise on the mind; With flatt’ring looks she tempts our hearts, But leaves a sting behind. With names of virtue she deceives The aged and the young; And while the heedless wretch believes, She makes his fetters strong. She pleads for all the…
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Looking at the Cross
Tonight we’ll sing this hymn by John Newton, to the tune Prospect: In evil long I took delight, Unaw’d by shame or fear, Till a new object struck my sight, And stopp’d my wild career. I saw one hanging on a tree, In agonies and blood, Who fix’d his languid…
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Daily Bale for April 2, 2011
Today was a full Saturday, but easy to delineate: Worked on the Astro van in the morning. Did federal and state taxes in the afternoon, as well as make sure things are ready for services tomorrow. Helped with the kids in the evening, as Trish had a bad headache. Finished…
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Who Said Liberalism is Dead?
It’s been the opinion of some that theological liberalism is dead. Simplistically, theological liberalism describes those who call themselves Christians but deny many (if not most) of the doctrines that make Christianity Christianity. Some believe that liberalism’s sun has set and its dead and buried. I don’t think so. Come…
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The Incarnation of Jesus Christ
I’m submitting the following for this week’s “Pastor’s Column” in our local newspaper. If you have thoughts or suggestions, let me know by noon today! 🙂 —————– We just finished what for many is their favorite time of the year, Christmas. Increasingly our culture views this season in purely secular…
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Sin in the Light of God’s Holiness
“All approach to God is on the ground of shed blood. The atonement has its deepest demand in the holiness of God. Any doctrine of the atonement that sees its need only in the necessity that man be influenced by a mighty motive, or in the necessities of governmental expediency,…
Dan Greenfield 