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Renewing Your Passion Of The Passion

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Other movies I’ve seen, though they were fiction, were able to pull at my heart, even bring on a few tears. What makes The Passion so remarkable is that beyond the acting, sound effects, and superb videography lies a true story of unparalleled consequence. My wife and I scurried off to see it when it [...]

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Where You Put The Emphasis Matters

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The Old Cross and the New

(Written by A. W. Tozer in 1946)

All unannounced and mostly undetected there has come in modern times a new cross into popular evangelical circles. It is like the old cross, but different: the likenesses are superficial; the differences, fundamental.

From this new cross has sprung [...]

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The State of Gospelessness

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Gospelessness – [gos-puhl-less-ness] – The state of one who boasts of preaching the gospel while never actually getting around to preaching it.

A while back I was telling my Dad how we were going to start some weekly believers’ meetings and that we were going to keep the focus on Jesus and the gospel [...]

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What Did He Have To Go And Say That For?

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He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has the Life of the Ages, and I will raise him up on the last day. (John 6.54 WEYMTH)

He was only speaking the truth.  There was no reason for a reaction like that.  He even tried to explain to them what He meant.  But, no!  [...]

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Motivational “Spreachers” and a Hybrid Gospel

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Today I watched one of the charismatic movement’s favorite motivational “spreachers” (speaker/preacher) dance around the gospel message with funny anecdotes and a whole lot of talk about money with almost no mention of Jesus. Actually, it almost seemed as if he was using the gospel as an occasion to justify glorying in earthly abundance as [...]

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