Two distinctive features which fit those of the postmodern generation are respect for testimony and lack of regard for authority. The disregard for absolutes and the acceptance of someone’s story has left them with twin problems and the church with a double dilemma. Since the postmodernist will not accept the concept of absolute truth, he […]
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In order to grasp this consideration fully it is important to first define time. Time can be described as a non-spatial continuum that is measured in terms of events which succeed one another from past through present to future. Time is something that must be measured in order to have significance. Through the ages time
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Romans 5:12-21 (16) [16] And not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift: for the judgment was by one to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offences unto justification. One company advertizes, “Why not clean just once and not have to clean again for awhile? Wouldn’t that be much
Psalm 51:1-19 (14) [14] Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness. The idiot lights on the dashboards of our car are placed there for a purpose and yet often they are ignored. Maybe you like others have taken a piece of electrical
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Ephesians 5:25-27 (25) Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; The Saturday Evening Post published an article entitled “The Seven Ages of the Married Cold.” It revealed the reaction of a husband to his wife’s colds during their first seven years of marriage. Year one: “Sugar dumpling,
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Psalm 14:1-7 (2) [2] The Lord looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God. We are so centered on our feelings, our life and our future that we sometimes overlook matters of significance. For example, we speak of the God of hope.
Genesis 3:16-24 (23) [23] Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. The Rejection Hotline is a fake phone number you can give out instead of your real number. Callers hear the Rejection Hotline message and are not-so-subtly informed of your non-interest.
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Genesis 3:1-13 (9) [9] And the Lord God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou? Responding to an alarm, police arrived to see a man running out the back door. The suspect got away, but he dropped his cell phone. The police searched the list of contacts on the phone and called
Genesis 1:26-31 (26) And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. I was
Matthew 2:10 When they saw the star, they were overjoyed. Kings don’t know how to kneel. Others kneel before them. Others praise them, honor them, and bring gifts to them. If a king is humbled it normally means that he has been defeated. For a king to be humbled is to be debased. In our