God’s preservation of Scripture

Has God providentially preserved His Word throughout the centuries. I believe he has based on the following texts of Scripture.
“Long have I known from your testimonies that you have founded them forever.” (Psalm 119:152, ESV). This is a strong affirmation and, in the context, a clear proof of the doctrine of God’s preservation.
“The sum of [...]

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Battling heresy: our duty

“It is clear from those letters to the churches in Revelation that battling heresy is a duty Christ expects every Christian to be devoted to Whether we like it or not, our very existence in this world involves spiritual warfare—it is not a party or a picnic. If Christ Himself devoted so much of His [...]

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Confronting error like Jesus did? (pt. 2)

Some readers might question whether Christ is really the example we should follow in confronting error. After all, He was God incarnate, with all the wisdom of divine omniscience available to Him. He could see into other people’s hearts and read their thoughts. He knew truth perfectly without any of the limitations we suffer from [...]

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Christ: a necessity and reality!

“We never feel Christ to be a reality until we feel him to be a necessity.”
- Austin Phelps, quoted by Gordon Keddie in Preacher on the Run: The Message of Jonah (Hertfordshire, England: Evangelical Press, 1986), 85.
(HT:  First Importance)

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Confronting error like Jesus? (pt. 1)

In The Jesus You Can’t Ignore,  (pp.170-71), John MacArthur states,
“If the stridency of Jesus’ dealings with the Jewish leaders shocks you, bear in mind that He had the advantage of knowing their hearts even more perfectly than they themselves did. The fallen human heart is “deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know [...]

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Throwing rocks at wolves

“Generally speaking, avoiding conflicts is a good idea. Warmth and congeniality are normally preferable to cold harshness. Civility, compassion, and good manners are in short supply these days, and we ought to have more of them. Gentleness, a soft answer, and a kind word usually go farther than an argument or a rebuke. That which [...]

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Is God a bully?

Richard Dawkins thinks so:  “The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.” (Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion, 31)
So does this [...]

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The faithfulness of God

Next time you sing “Great is Thy Faithfulness”, sing it with a greater understanding of this infinite attribute of God!
“Know therefore that the Lord your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations,” (Deuteronomy 7:9, ESV).
“if we are [...]

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All goodness in all perfection: Jesus Christ!

“Brethren, the Savior’s character has all goodness in all perfection; he is full of grace and truth. Some men, now-a-day, talk of him as if he were simply incarnate benevolence. It is not so. No lips ever spoke with such thundering indignation against sin as the lips of the Messiah. “He is like a refiner’s [...]

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Gentle Jesus, meek and mild?

“Why mild? Of all the epithets that could be applied to Christ this seems one of the least appropriate. . . Jesus Christ might well be called “meek,” in the sense of being selfless and humble and utterly devoted to what He considered right, whatever personal cost; but “mild,” never!–J. B. Philips

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