How Do You Prepare for Worship? Some Thoughts by JI Packer

How Do You Prepare for Worship? Some thoughts on the subject From J.I. Packer "But still one question remains. ... How can we, cold-hearted and formal as we so often are -- to our shame -- in church services, advance closer to the Puritan ideals? The Puritans would have met our question by asking...

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Growing Older in Age & Serving the LORD

From James Montgomery Boice: I suppose there are some people who in their old age only look back to the past and are often quite unhappy as they do. They think of what they have had and lost or what they wish they could have had an never did. The present does not mean much to them except as a basis for complaining about their multiplying aches and pains, and they are afraid to look forward. They...

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Why God Is Just in the Condemning of Sinners

For at least 3 reasons, God is justified in His condemnation of sinners... 1) God is justified because all men, through their lineage from Adam, share in the guilt of original sin and in the moral and spiritual depravity it produces (Rom 5:17-18). 2) God is justified in condemning sinners because every person is born with an evil nature (Eph 2:3). 3) God is justified in condemning sinners because...

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Warning! Don't Let Your Blessings Turn Into God's Curses On You!

Psalm 69:22-23   22 May their table before them become a snare; And when they are in peace, may it become a trap.  23 May their eyes grow dim so that they cannot see, And make their loins shake continually. Romans 11:9-10   9  And David says, "LET THEIR TABLE BECOME A SNARE AND A TRAP, AND A STUMBLING BLOCK AND A RETRIBUTION TO THEM.  10 "LET THEIR EYES BE DARKENED...

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Minister of God — Guard Your Own Soul!

 ‘The whole state of your own soul before God must be the first point to be considered; for if you yourself are not in a truly spiritual state of mind, and actually living upon the truths which you preach or read to others, you will officiate to very little purpose.’ --Charles Simeon...

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