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When your adventurous spirit has sought to climb some lofty mountain, delighted with the prospect you scale many and many a precipice. Onward you climb up the rocky crags until at last you arrive at the verge of the snow and ice. There, in the midst of precipices that scarcely know a bottom and of summits…

I saw the other day a remarkable picture, which I shall use as an illustration of the way of salvation by faith in Jesus. An offender had committed a crime for which he must die, but it was in the olden time when churches were considered to be sanctuaries in which criminals might hide themselves and…

In the olden times of imprisonment for debt, it would have been quite correct for you to step into the cell of a debtor and say to him, “I have freed you,” if you had paid his debts and obtained an order for his discharge. But he is still in prison! Yes, but you really liberated him as soon as you paid…

How many Christians are like the miser who never feels sure about the safety of his money, even though he has locked up the iron safe, and secured the room in which he keeps it, and locked up the house, and bolted and barred every door! In the dead of night, he thinks he hears a footstep, and tremblingly…

The feather flies in the wind, but it has no inherent power to move. Consequently, when the gale is over it falls to the ground. Such is the religion of excitement. But the eagle has life within itself, and its wings bear it aloft and onward whether the breeze favors it or not—such is religion when sustained…

To say that we save ourselves is to utter a manifest absurdity. We are called in Scripture “a temple”—a holy temple in the Lord. But shall anyone assert that the stones of the edifice were their own architect? Shall it be said that the stones of the building in which we are now assembled cut themselves…

Shelly Pennefather was Villanova’s all-time leading scorer. When she was 25 she had a $200,000 contract to play in Japan. She turned it down. Instead she joined the Monastery of the Poor Clares in Alexandria, Va., one of the strictest religious orders in the world. “I would never choose this for myself,”…

Shortly before she died, Barbara Bush was talking with her son Jeb. In a response to a question from Jeb she replied, “Jeb, I believe in Jesus and He is my Savior. I don’t want to leave your dad, but I know I will be in a beautiful place.” This is the calm assurance that a person who has trusted Jesus…

Nik Wallenda from the high flying Wallenda family recently crossed a high wire across a canyon near the Grand Canyon. He made the crossing without a tether or safety net. Last year he was the first person to walk over the brink of Niagara Falls on a high wire. When asked about the danger he faced Wallenda’s…

Ward Brehm went to Africa with his pastor nearly twenty years ago. That trip changed his life forever. While there, Brehm saw people who were chronically malnourished, children going blind for lack of inexpensive medicine, and other people dying of AIDS. He came back from the trip feeling a call to speak…

Develop the Right (Self) Attitude Here are 10 suggestions to help you develop and maintain a healthy self-image. Read them slowly. Meditate on them regularly. 1. Hate your sin, but never hate yourself. 2. Be quick to repent. 3. When God gives you light, walk in it. 4. Stop saying negative things about…

There is a story about a minister who had a strange dream. He dreamt that he had died and was trying to get into heaven. When he approached the pearly gates, St. Peter told him he needed 100 points to get in. Proudly the minister said, "Well, I was a pastor for 43 years." "Fine," said St. Peter, "That's…

Martin Luther is reported to have said that the most damnable and pernicious heresy that has ever plagued the mind of man was the idea that somehow he could make himself good enough to deserve to live with an all-holy God. You couldn't make an omelet out of five good eggs and one rotten egg and expect…

BELIEF A diagnostic quiz on Beliefnet promises to determine what "Kind" of Christian a person is based on their answers to 20 questions. The questions deal with basic beliefs about Jesus such as the virgin birth, the miracles of Jesus, his death on the cross, and resurrection. The website says, "One's…

John MacArthur Basisinformationen zur Bibel Christliche Literatur-Verbreitung Postfach 11 01 35 • 33661 Bielefeld Wenn nicht anders angegeben, sind die Bibelzitate der Schlachter 2000 entnommen. Abkürzungen weiterer Bibelausgaben: Elb.: Elberfelder Bibel, unrevidierte Fassung Lu 12: Lutherbibel von 1912…

Living above the Line A Celebration of our Union with Christ Rev Greg Byrd Faith Temple Baptist Church Poetry Texas Living Above the Line Introduction Introduction Colossians 1:27 says Christ in you, the hope of Glory. In fact Christ in us is our only hope of eternal Glory, The union of the believer…

Union with Christ What does it mean to be “in Christ” or “united with Christ”? EXPLANATION AND SCRIPTURAL BASIS1 The subject is so frequently mentioned in Scripture and so wide-ranging in its application to our lives that it deserves treatment here. That is the concept of union with Christ. As we shall…

A Christian Guide to Passover (PESCH) Below is a compilation of several contemporary Seder services that are used today. Because of the passage of time and that Passover was intended to be a family tradition, it is not possible to reconstruct with certainty the type of Passover meal or celebration that…

The Assurance of Know-So Salvation by George Sweeting I t's shocking to realize how many people are made miserable by the disease called doubt. Doubt has robbed thousands of the thrill and joy of salvation. People who read their Bibles, ear­nestly pray, faithfully attend church, and live uprightly in…