Tag: church
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A Second Motive For Church Discipline
Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. (1 Corinthians 5:6-7) In a previous post we began to look at the verse…
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A Motive For Church Discipline
you are to deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord. (1 Corinthians 5:5) Church discipline is one of the marks of a healthy church. Yet church discipline is sorely lacking in American churches today. There are many reasons for…
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Recounting God’s Wondrous Deeds
We give thanks to you, O God; we give thanks, for your name is near. We recount your wondrous deeds. (Psalm 75:1) We see this theme of recounting God’s deeds throughout the psalms. It is a practice tied to hope in the midst of trouble, and joy and thanksgiving at all times. It is most often…
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Weekend Reads 5/30
Here are a few links we found interesting or worthwhile this week, and we pass them on to you for reading over the weekend. Learn From Calvin and Hobbes About the Medium and the Message – “Watterson was worried that the very existence of these products would sap the power from the real thing; that…
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Judging in the church
For what have I to do with judging outsiders? Is it not those inside the church whom you are to judge? (1 Corinthians 5:12) It is very popular in American culture to say that Christians aren’t suppose to judge anyone. But we find in this verse that we are to judge those “inside the church”…
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Weekend Reads 4/11
Here are a few links we found interesting or worthwhile this week, and we pass them on to you for reading over the weekend. Let’s Stop Forgiving Those Who Don’t Want Forgiveness – “I understand the motive, and also the desire to present an attractive witness about Christian forgiveness to the world. But it’s not…
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if my people
When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command the locust to devour the land, or send pestilence among my people, if my people who are called by name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and…