CHRISTIAN SIN?
There is another kind of sin which for sheer turpitude must rate before those mentioned and very near to the sin that is unpardonable.
View MoreThere is another kind of sin which for sheer turpitude must rate before those mentioned and very near to the sin that is unpardonable.
View MoreWithin the precincts of religion are sometimes found certain sins which I want here to mention.
View MoreA great preacher, now deceased, to whom I used often to listen with profit and delight, would sometimes shout dramatically, "God never classifies sin." His words were intended as a protest against a careless attitude toward certain forms of sin, and in their context I agree with them.
View MoreThe school into which we Christians are introduced furnishes many lessons, all taught by the wisest of all teachers; but everything depends upon how we respond to them. Unfortunately many of us learn little and soon forget what little we may have learned.
View MoreA proverb has it that all we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.
View MoreWhen we become Christians we enter the school of Christ. We come under the direct tutelage of the Holy Spirit and should move normally upward by stages toward spiritual perfection.
View MoreIt may have been at the shut of the year that Moses made his plaintive prayer for wisdom to know what to do with his days; and it was in his old age that Jacob stood before Pharaoh and confessed, "The years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty. My years have been few and difficult and they do not equal the years of the pilgrimage of my fathers" (Genesis 47:9).
View MoreTo each one fortunate enough to live out 1959, God will have given 365 days broken into 8,760 hours.
View MoreIn the year just gone the world has been writing history, not with ink only but with blood and tears; not in the quiet of the study but in violence, terror and death in city streets and along the borders of nations; and other and milder but more significant history has been written by incredible feats of power in sending man-made objects out to circle the moon and the sun.
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