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The Passion for Ministry
I am more and more convinced that what gives a ministry its motivations, perseverance, humility, joy, tenderness, passion, and grace is the devotional life of the one doing ministry. When I daily admit how needy I am, daily meditate on the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and daily feed on the restorative wisdom of…
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Takes One Man
Romans 5 12 Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men becauseall sinned— 13 for sin indeed was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not counted where there is no law. 14 Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses,…
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On Sufferring
Romans 5 Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. 2 Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. 3 Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings,…
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What True Love Is
Romans 5 6 For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. This verse is a great summation of the gospel. While we are still weak, and helpless without anything to offer but our sin, Christ died for us. This is true love if you ask me. 7 For one will…
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Hope Springs
Romans 4 18 In hope he believed against hope, that he should become the father of many nations, as he had been told, “So shall your offspring be.” 19 He did not weaken in faith when he considered his own body, which was as good as dead since he was about a hundred years old, or when…