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Category Archives: Spirituality

Comfort

At times, when sick, loss of job, children situations, problems as work, stressful times, etc. – we may have need to seek ‘comfort’ – here are some scriptures that might help.   God’s comforting promise Jesus says at Matthew 28:20 (ESV) –“…teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am […]

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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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Sin Warnings – CHSpurgeon

WARNINGS TO CERTAIN SINNERS-By: Charles Spurgeon CAIN was of the wicked one and slew his brother. “The way of Cain” is not hard to describe.He is too proud to offer atonement for his sin; he prefers his own way of sacrifice; he presents a bloodless oblation; he hates the obedience of faith; he smites the […]

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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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Heal Backsliding-CHSpurgeon

June30.—Morning. [Or December 27.] “I will heal their backsliding.”  –  By C. H. Spurgeon Hosea 11:1–11 WHEN Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt. The ancient love and grace of God ought to have been a powerful motive for obedience, but it was not. 2 Asthey called them, […]

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Salvation Is – Heart Response

Salvation is a … Heart response to the Word of God   Romans 10:9–10 (ESV) – 9 because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the […]

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Be Steadfast (1 Cor. 15:58)

Be Steadfast       1 Corinthians 15:58(ESV) 58 Therefore, my beloved brothers , be steadfast, immovable , always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain. After reading the previous verses Paul then says something like this: (Therefore) so then my brothers be steadfast… […]

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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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