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Glenn Pemberton teaches Old Testament at Abilene Christian University. He suffers from feet injuries due to stress fractures. He has had five surgeries and has worked with podiatrists, orthopedists, neurologists, neurosurgeons, pain management specialists, physical...
ENTERING INTO THE WORSHIP OF HEAVEN
In April 1999 I took my staff team to a church growth conference put on by Walt Kallestad and his leadership at Community Church of Joy, Glendale, Arizona. It was a very productive conference on creating a vision for growth and putting it into action. In a Leadership...
WHY DO WE NEED ASH WEDNESDAY AND LENT?
“They dress the wound of my people as though it were not serious. ‘Peace, peace,’ they say, when there is no peace. Are they ashamed of their loathsome conduct? No, they have no shame at all; they do not even know how to blush.” (Jeremiah 6:14,15. NIV) “My...
THE GREATEST THING IN THE WORLD
The Sunday before Lent used to be called Quinquagesima Sunday, i.e. fifty days before Easter. The epistle to be read on that Sunday was 1 Corinthians 13, Paul’s great hymn of love. The emphasis on the spirit of love is intended to show us the true spirit of Lenten...
HOW OUR HEARTS CAN BE FREED FROM THE FEAR OF DEATH
“In my Father’s house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you.” (John 14:2) Jesus bids us think of death not as a leap into the dark unknown, but as a journey to a prepared place. It will not be like...
AN UNEXPECTED MODERN APPLICATION OF THE EXAMPLE OF JESUS
In 1970 I was ministering to students and other young adults at All Souls Church, Langham Place, London. It was the era of the Beatles, Eastern transcendental meditation and a psychedelic culture. John Stott gave the Bible Readings at the international missions...
WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF THE OLD TESTAMENT MORAL LAW TODAY?
There is a great need in the church today for a biblical, Christian philosophy of history. Most of us are short-sighted and narrow-minded. We are so preoccupied with current affairs in the present century, that neither the past nor the future has any great interest...
THE FEARFUL DELUSION
The Judaizers in the New Testament taught that, ‘The only way to be justified is sheer hard work. You have to toil at it. The “work” you have to do is the “works of the law”. That is, you must do everything the [moral] law commands and refrain from everything the law...
WHAT IS THE POINT OF PRAYER?
Men and women are at their noblest and best when they are on their knees before God in prayer. To pray is not only to be truly godly; it is also to be truly human. For here are human beings, made by God like God and for God, spending time in fellowship with God. So...
INANE BONHOMIE
And Mary said: My soul glorifies the Lord and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior. His mercy extends to those who fear him. (Luke 1:46,47,50) The Bible says much about “the fear of the Lord”. We are told in the Psalms, in the book of Job, and in the Proverbs that “the...
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