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- The important thing, Jesus is saying (in Matthew 5:33-37), is to tell the truth and keep one's pledges without insisting that a certain form of…
- Failure to believe stems from moral failure to recognize the truth, not from want of evidence, but from willful neglect or distortion of the evidence.
- Both God's love and God's wrath are ratcheted up in the move from the old covenant to the new, from the Old Testament to the…
- Jesus is hungry but feeds others; He grows weary but offers others rest; He is the King Messiah but pays tribute; He is called the…
- People do not drift toward Holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith, and delight in the…
- If God had perceived that our greatest need was economic, he would have sent an economist. If he had perceived that our greatest need was…
- The broader problem is that a great deal of popular preaching and teaching uses the bible as a pegboard on which to hang a fair…
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