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Demonstrating Unity
Baptism and the Lord’s supper are intimately connected. The former serves to produce unity in the body of Christ, while the latter demonstrates that unity in a concrete way.
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Discerning the Body in the Lord's Supper
Together with immersion, the Lord’s supper is recognized as one of the essential practices of the church of God. So important is it that it’s improper observance brings judgment upon those who eat and drink.
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The Logic of the Cross
Human logic often turns reason on its head. This tendency is especially seen in politics. Last Thursday, U.S. Vice-president Joe Biden said, “[W]e have to go spend money to keep from going bankrupt? The answer is yes, that’s what I’m telling you.”
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Only God Is Great
So many celebrities have died recently, it reminds one of the death, in 1715, of King Louis XIV of France, after a reign of 72 years.
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Remembering Death in Life
With the death of Michael Jackson, the media buzzes with details of his popular career and his bizarre life: star of the family group, the Jackson Five, the changes in his music, his marriage to Lisa Marie Presley, his financial woes, his three children, all of whom bear both his names, his cosmetic surgeries, the charges of child molestation. Death calls us to remember a life, no matter how wonderful or sordid.
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The Perfect Picture
Even before our son’s wedding last month, people asked us to send or show them pictures of the ceremony. Both those who were present and those who couldn’t attend wanted to see pictures. For those who are present, pictures are a way of remembering. For those who can’t attend an event or make it home for a holiday, pictures tell what happened.
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Songs in the Courtroom
As I searched through the hymnal for a list of songs to lead, I found almost nothing on the Judgment or on God as Judge. It just wasn’t there. One little phrase from the Psalms. And another from a song written by a brother in Christ about the Lord coming to judge. And that was it. Why, I wonder, is one of the major themes of Scripture absent from our hymns?
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The Accuser Has Been Thrown Down
Satan is the accuser. His mission is to keep man away from God. His methods are many, his wiles devious. The very word “Devil” means an accuser, a slanderer. While purporting to help and point out a more advantageous way to get through life, the prince of demons is setting a trap.
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Earnestly Desired
When Jesus wants something intensely, it’s worth paying attention. Intensely. He said literally, “With desire I have desired.” Some scholars understand this as a hangover from the Hebrew which intensifies the idea of the verb.
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Tears of Joy
Glenda Williams tells that in their jail ministry in Geneva, Alabama, when one prisoner was baptized, he felt so thankful for the forgiveness of his sins that he stood in the baptistry and wept for a long time.
He said, she said