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    A boy growing up in a home of poverty

    A boy growing up in a home of poverty (J.R. Miller) A good many years ago, there was a boy growing up in a home of poverty, with no advantages. He was long and lanky--a most clumsy boy. He would lie on the earthen floor at night, when the day's work was done, reading by the dim firelight...
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    The aged believer's cordial

    James Smith Sermons The aged believer's cordial (James Smith, "The Aged Believer's Cordial") "Hearken unto Me! I have cared for you since you were born. Yes, I carried you before you were born. I will be your God throughout your lifetime--until your hair is white with age. I made you, and I...
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    Suspects Arrested After Church Youth Raped, Beaten, Robbed While Camping in Mexico

    Suspects assumed to be gang members were arrested for the beating, robbing and raping of members of a church youth group attacked while camping in Mexico City last week. The rest of the story may be read at, Suspects Arrested After Church Youth Raped, Beaten, Robbed While Camping in Mexico...
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    The Aged Believer's Cordial

    The aged believer's cordial (James Smith, "The Aged Believer's Cordial") "Hearken unto Me! I have cared for you since you were born. Yes, I carried you before you were born. I will be your God throughout your lifetime--until your hair is white with age. I made you, and I will care for you. I...
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    Ky. Baptist church ordains openly gay man

    Here is one reason why I believe strongly in separating from those who have their own agenda. "LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - An eastern Louisville Baptist church has ordained an openly gay man as a minister with unanimous support from church members."...
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    Christ Is All!

    Christ Is All! James Smith, 1855 What the sun is to the world — that Christ is to the Church. What the soul is to the body — that Christ is to the soul. It has pleased the Father, that in him should all fullness dwell — and emptiness is written upon everything out of Christ. The Apostles...
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    One Hour After Death!

    One Hour After Death! James Smith, 1859 The news of the unexpected death of a dear friend has suggested this thought. He is gone. He is in another world. I too, must die soon. It may be very soon. Let me, then, think of death, and of the hour after death. If I die among friends, my eyes will...
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    It is not better preaching!

    It is not better preaching! (J. C. Ryle) "When the Spirit of truth comes--He will guide you into all truth." John 16:13 Does anyone of us desire to help the Church of Christ? Then let him pray for a great outpouring of the Spirit. Only the Holy Spirit can . . . give edge to sermons, and...
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    A Birthday Meditation James Smith, New Park Street Chapel, London, 1849

    Here is the testimony of James Smith who preceeded Charles Haddon Spurgeon at the Metropolitan Tabernacle in London. A Birthday Meditation James Smith, New Park Street Chapel, London, 1849 How great has been the mercy of my God to me—a poor, worthless, ill-deserving worm! I trace his...
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    It would be a kind of Heaven to the damned!

    It would be a kind of Heaven to the damned! (Richard Baxter, "The Saints Everlasting Rest") "Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels!" Matthew 25:41 Alas! what heart can now possibly conceive, or what tongue express--the pains of...
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    Ah, the sharpest thorns are unseen by mortal eyes!

    Ah, the sharpest thorns are unseen by mortal eyes! (The following in an excerpt from the diary of James Smith) "Oh, what wretched man I am! Who will free me from this life that is dominated by sin and death!" Romans 7:24 My journey lies along a thorny road--and yet few see the thorns but...
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    God is all mercy and love!

    God is all mercy and love! (J.C. Ryle, "Heirs of God" 1878) There is a school of theology rising up in this day, which appears to me most eminently calculated to promote infidelity, to help the devil, and to ruin souls! It comes to us like Joab to Amasa--with the highest professions of love...
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    Does it matter on which day we worship the Lord

    There are those who say that Christians will go to Hell if they worship God on Sunday rather than Saturday. Christians are judged by others if they eat "forbidden" things. What is the truth? What are we to make of these verses? Romans 14:4 Who art thou that judgest another man’s servant...
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    Jellyfish Christianity

    Jellyfish Christianity (J.C. Ryle) http://gracegems.org/2011/11/11.html "The blood of Jesus Christ cleanses us from all sin!" 1 John 1:7 One plague of our age, is the widespread dislike to sound doctrine. In the place of it, the idol of the day is a kind of jellyfish Christianity--a...
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    Salvation is by free grace alone!

    Salvation is by free grace alone! (James Smith, "The Believer's Companion in Seasons of Affliction and Trouble" 1842) "By grace you are saved!" Ephesians 2:8 Salvation is by free grace alone! In eternity past, the Lord fixed upon the objects whom He intended to deliver from sin, Satan, and...
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    An Atheistic Defense Of Tim Tebow

    I'm not sure what to make of this piece. It's official: Everyone on the planet has an opinion on Tim Tebow. By now we've heard from everyone from Rick Perry to Bill Maher to the folks at Saturday Night Live. And of course those opinions result in even more opinions, so much so that Tim Tebow...
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    Court: Oklahoma can't enforce Sharia law ban

    Things just keep on getting better and better in the U.S. DENVER (Reuters) - A federal appeals court upheld an injunction against a voter-approved ban on Islamic law in Oklahoma on Tuesday, saying it likely violated the U.S. Constitution by discriminating against religion...
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    You will soon end your tedious, tiresome journey!

    You will soon end your tedious, tiresome journey! (James Smith, "The Believer's Companion in Seasons of Affliction and Trouble" 1842) "All these people were still living by faith when they died. They did not receive the things promised; they only saw them and welcomed them from a distance...
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    Living Under the Law

    The Scriptures tell us that we are saved by faith in Christ apart from works of the law. If we depend on our actions saving us, we are not trusting in the atonement of Jesus Christ to save us from our sins. If we live according to feast days or works of the law, we are living apart from the...
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    "Soon I must go down that road from which I will never return!" Job 16:22

    "Soon I must go down that road from which I will never return!" Job 16:22 (William Schenck, "Nearing Home; Comforts and Counsels for the Aged" 1868) An approaching journey lies before me. I have to pass from time--to eternity; from this world--to the next. And the time of my departure...