Tag: faith
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Future Glory
1 Peter 5:1 “. . . a partaker in the glory that is going to be revealed” Do the words above have any meaning to you? Well, if you are a Christian, they should mean everything. They should motivate you, encourage you, strengthen you, and comfort you for they are a declaration of your future,…
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A Word About Suffering
1 Peter 4:19 “Therefore let those who suffer according to God’s will entrust their souls to a faithful Creator while doing good.” Suffering: one of best definitions I’ve ever heard for it was the following by Elizabeth Elliot: “having something we don’t want or wanting something we don’t have.” According to the verse above, a similar…
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The Cost of True Faith
1 Peter 4:17-18 “For it is time for judgment to begin at the household of God; and if it begins with us, what will be the outcome for those who do not obey the gospel of God? And ‘If the righteous is scarcely saved, what will become of the ungodly and the sinner?’” I remember…
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Get in the Ark!
1 Peter 3:20-22 “God’s patience waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were brought safely through water. Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you, not as a removal of dirt from the body but as an appeal to God for a…
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Our Sovereign God
1 Peter 3:17 “For it is better to suffer for doing good, if that should be God’s will, than for doing evil.” There is something that is incredibly freeing in being a follower of Jesus Christ. Actually, there are many things about such a life that are freeing, but it’s the one thing mentioned in…
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On “Keeping Our Faith to Ourselves”
1 Kings 1:41 “And when Joab heard the sound of the trumpet, he said, ‘What does this uproar in the city mean?’” Have you ever heard the following statement made about someone: “He keeps his faith to himself”? Maybe that’s how you think of yourself. So often when we hear this, it’s with the idea…
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Do You Know What You’re Missing?
1 John 5:12-13 “Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life. I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life.” One of the things that we should understand about the writers…
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Impossible?
Mark 9:23 “All things are possible for one who believes.” Currently I’m reading a book by the late English pastor F.W. Boreham. Have you ever heard of him? What an incredibly gifted writer he was. What a gift for explaining spiritual truth. Yesterday I read an essay he wrote about impossibilities. He wrote about the…
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The “American Gospel”
Isaiah 53:5 “But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are healed.” Have you ever heard of what some have called “The American Gospel?” You can read all about it at the following website: https://www.americangospelfilm.com/. It’s…
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Viewpoints
2 Samuel 22:1-4 “And David spoke to the Lord the words of this song on the day when the Lord delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul. He said, ‘The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, my God, my rock, in whom I…
To Encourage You 