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May 12, 2022
What is the difference between joy and happiness?
My first pastor often cited Oswald Chambers’s My Utmost for His Highest, and I eagerly read that great book as a young Christian. But at the time I didn’t know enough to disagree with his statement: “Joy should not be confused with happiness. In fact, it is an insult to Jesus Christ to use the […]
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May 10, 2022
DOING MORE THAN YOU EVER IMAGINED
LEADERS SOMETIMES MAKE audacious statements and then lead people to fulfill them. Leaders turn their convictions about what must happen and their vision about what can happen into what does happen. When they do, the world is changed, often dramatically, with results echoing to subsequent generations. In the 1960s two American leaders made bold pronouncements, […]
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May 9, 2022
The relevance and importance of studying the second coming
The Old and New Testaments are filled with the promises of the second coming of Christ. In the Old Testament, there are 1,845 references and a total of seventeen Old Testament books that give it prominence. Of the 216 chapters in the entire New Testament, there are 318 references to the Second Coming, or one […]
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May 8, 2022
Grumpy People Looking for a Place to Grump
How we are behind the closed doors of our own private castle is how we really are. That’s the real you and the real me. We can fabricate an image for our work associates and friends, but when the shades go down, the man we really are comes out of the shadows. We trap ourselves […]
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May 7, 2022
The basis of true happiness
The waiter brings the meals steaming hot from the kitchen and places them dramatically on the table. He looks at each diner expectantly, hoping to see expressions of delight. Before he leaves, he pronounces the inevitable benediction: “Enjoy!” Many seem to think that’s how God should act. He should deliver all the pleasures of “the […]
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May 6, 2022
GOD USES SATAN TO REFINE THE OBEDIENT
We have just released a new Bible Study based on Ermin Lutzer’s book, God’s Devil. Here is an excerpt: GOD USES SATAN TO REFINE THE OBEDIENT Sometimes God chooses the scene of our battles with Satan. Does Satan wish to tempt Job to discredit the faith of this man of God? He must come to […]
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May 5, 2022
THE STUPIDITY OF DATE SETTING
About a hundred years ago, Christians in this country anticipated that the twentieth century would be the greatest century the world had ever known. They were filled with unbridled optimism, and their slogans showed their positive spirit—slogans like “ever onward and upward” and “the evangelization of our world in our generation” and “the absoluteness of […]
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May 4, 2022
“HAVING BEGUN IN THE SPIRIT”
The words from which I wish to address you, you will find in the Epistle to the Galatians, the third chapter, at the third verse; let us read the second verse also: “This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? […]
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Who is the Holy Spirit?
A Person The Holy Spirit is a person. He grieves (Eph. 4:30); intercedes (Rom. 8:26–27); testifies (John 16:12–15); speaks (Mark 13:11); creates (Gen. 1:2; Luke 1:35); has a mind (Rom. 8:27); and can be blasphemed (Mark 3:28–29).2 (Of course, the Scriptures are also said to “testify” and “speak,” and no one thinks the Scriptures are […]
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May 3, 2022
Is joy the same as happiness?
The relationship between joy and happiness in these passages refutes two common claims: (1) that the Bible doesn’t talk about happiness, and (2) that joy and happiness have contrasting meanings. In fact, the Bible overflows with accounts of God’s people being happy in him. (These examples only skim the surface, as part 3 will demonstrate.) […]
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