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E____ had a friend who did not believe that the injunctions, "Come out from among them and be ye separate," "Be not conformed to the world," and kindred passages, have anything to do with the external appearance of the Christian. She was united in church fellowship
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Miss Jane Doe was the name of an amiable young lady of my acquaintance who died at the age of sixteen. She was the daughter of respectable and pious parents in one of the New England States. On the cultivation of her mind considerable attention had been bestowed. . . . To what
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I have been surprised to notice how many children have died a martyr’s death rather than deny Jesus. I want to tell you about one of these young martyrs. In Antioch, where the disciples were first called Christians, a deacon from the church of Caesarea was called to bear
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Rev. E. Payson’s Joyful Experiences and Triumphant Death He was asked, by a friend, if he could see any particular reason for this dispensation. He replied, “No; but I am as well satisfied as if I could see ten thousand reasons.” In a letter dictated to his sister he
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Article #3 on the Passion of Jesus Christ Clearly, Jesus Christ wasn’t feeling what everyone else was feeling in any given circumstance. Readers of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John should be wondering what, if anything, could ever make Jesus Christ experience sorrow and fear while suffering. This question is
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Internet Gossip in the Information Age “𝑇ℎ𝑜𝑢 𝑠ℎ𝑎𝑙𝑡 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑟𝑎𝑖𝑠𝑒 𝑎 𝑓𝑎𝑙𝑠𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡: 𝑝𝑢𝑡 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑐𝑘𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒 𝑎𝑛 𝑢𝑛𝑟𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑒𝑜𝑢𝑠 𝑤𝑖𝑡𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠. 𝑇ℎ𝑜𝑢 𝑠ℎ𝑎𝑙𝑡 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑓𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑜𝑤 𝑎 𝑚𝑢𝑙𝑡𝑖𝑡𝑢𝑑𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑑𝑜 𝑒𝑣𝑖𝑙; 𝑛𝑒𝑖𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑠ℎ𝑎𝑙𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑢 𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑎𝑘 𝑖𝑛 𝑎 𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑑𝑒𝑐𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑒 𝑎𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝑡𝑜 𝑤𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑗𝑢𝑑𝑔𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡: 𝑁𝑒𝑖𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑠ℎ𝑎𝑙𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑢 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑎 𝑝𝑜𝑜𝑟
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"Recently I read a book on 'The Radical Reformation' - a tremendous book - 'The Radical Reformation,' in which the battle between the 'Magisterial Reformers' - Calvin, and Zwingli, and Luther - the battle that raged between them and the 'Radical Reformers&
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Bury a good man in infamy, & God will raise him from the dead.
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Have you ever heard the phrase, “The blood of the martyrs is the seed-bed of the Church?" This was the victorious declaration of an overcoming Church in the midst of horrendous tribulations, but was it only for them? These Early Church Christians experienced the promises and prophecies of the
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So send I you to labour unrewarded To serve unpaid, unloved, unsought, unknown To bear rebuke, to suffer scorn and scoffing So send I you to toil for Me alone So send I you to bind the bruised and broken Over wandering souls to work, to weep, to wake To
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“Let me go out on a limb a little bit and prophesy. I see the time coming when all the holy men whose eyes have been opened by the Holy Spirit will desert Worldly Evangelicalism, one by one. The house will be left desolate and there will not be a
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A prophet is one who knows his times and what God is trying to say to the people of his times. Today we need prophetic preachers; not preachers of prophecy merely, but preachers with a gift of prophecy. The word of wisdom is missing. We need the gift of discernment