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What is Pride? – CSpurgeon

WHAT IS PRIDE? – By Charles Spurgeon THERE is nothing into which the heart of man so easily falls as pride, and yet there is no vice which is more frequently, more emphatically, and more eloquently condemned in Scripture.   Pride is a groundless thing. It standeth on the sands; or worse than that, it […]

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Folly of Anxiety – RATorrey

The Folly of Anxiety Luke 12:22–34 – by: R. A. Torrey Discovery of the Facts 1.    God’s Care for His Creatures, vv. 22–28 What was the central lesson of the preceding lesson? What is the central lesson of this? What is the connection between that lesson and this? In what two ways as seen in […]

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LOST – Spiritual Power – RATorrey

How Spiritual Power is Lost– By:  R. A. Torrey Any discussion of the Baptism with the Holy Spirit, and the power which results from it, would be incomplete, if attention were not called to the fact that spiritual power may be lost. One of the strangest and saddest stories of the Old Testament history, is […]

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How To Get Saving Faith – CHSpurgeon

HOW TO GET SAVING FAITH – By Charles Spurgeon “By grace are ye saved.” Because God is gracious, therefore sinful men are forgiven, converted, purified, and saved. It is not because of anything in them, or that ever can be in them, that they are saved; but because of the boundless love, goodness, pity, compassion, […]

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Why A Narrow Way (Matt. 7:13-14)

Why a Narrow Way?     Matthew 7:13–14 (ESV) – 13 “Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. 14 For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those […]

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John 12:45 – Knowing The Father

Knowing the father –  John 12:45   Jesus said that ‘to see me you see the father’… (John 12:45)   The argument: What does Jesus feeding of the 5000 show about who God is?   Jesus Feeds the Five Thousand – Matthew 14:13-21 13  Now when Jesus heard this, he withdrew from there in a […]

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Stepped Out of His Will, but Not His Care

“I stepped out of His will, I’ve never been out of His care.”     This song Lyrics by “Michael Booth” and sung by Dave & Darlene Murdoch when they were with us on November 23 rd has a good message – especially the words: “I stepped out of His will, I’ve never been out […]

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Anger – When Sin or When Not

Anger – when is it ‘sin’ and when is it not?  (This was covered in our Wednesday night studies in 2012 – review that textbook.)   Jesus was angry at this behavior of the Pharisees at the Synagogue: A Man with a Withered Hand Mark 3:3 Again he entered the synagogue, and a man was […]

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Build on the Rock

“Build Your House on the Rock” – a lesson taught with the parable found in Matthew 7:24–29 (ESV) Matthew 7:24-29: 24“Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. 25And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds […]

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The Perseverance of the Saints

Scripture supporting:  “Perseverance of the saints”       Revelation 14:12says: 12Here is a call for the endurance of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God and their faith in Jesus.£  (ESV) This can be a verse pointing to the doctrine of eternal security, but yet it gives a message of the ‘how’ […]

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