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Amos 7:1-9, Amos 7:10-17

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Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... quench the prophet's desire to speak the truth on behalf of God. We today need to retrieve such moral authority in doing God's will and work as both priest and prophet by standing on and speaking the truth. We must claim our authority and vouchsafe our right to speak that truth whenever and wherever God's Word demands. The offices of priest and prophet need not be diametrically opposed. Those who are called and anointed of God can maintain their temples and still bring a word of hope and transformation for ...

2. Can You Dig It?

Genesis 26:1-35

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Carlyle Fielding Stewart

Our scripture today finds Isaac, the son of Abraham, faced with the formidable task of holding his family together, restoring their spiritual legacy and vouchsafing their future amid death threats and vehement opposition from the Philistines. Isaac must decide whether to dig or not to dig the wells of his father and exalt his people to their rightful place in history or allow his adversaries and enemies to foil his plans. The question for Isaac ...

3. Love Transcending Law and Custom

Matthew 1:18-25

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... He named his son Jesus, which is a Greek form of the Hebrew "Joshua" meaning "he shall save". As the ancient saviors of Israel saved their people from foreign oppressors, so Jesus was to save his people. Joseph, as the result of the divine oracle vouchsafed to him in his dream, terminated his betrothal by taking Mary home to live in his house. There is a lot ot talk today about what makes Christmas. Newspaper and television advertisements coax people into believing that they can have a real Christmas by ...

4. Looking to the Unseen

2 Corinthians 4:18

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Maurice A. Fetty

... elude them and life does indeed become vain. A sense of futility haunts them and boredom and depression begin to hold sway. But not so with Paul. Instead, we have, he says, treasure in earthen vessels. We have within us the hope for life eternal, vouchsafed to us by the gift of God's Spirit and grace. Convinced that life was more than the body and love greater than excited nerve endings, Paul was able to endure even suffering, sometimes unbearable suffering. Paul said, "We are afflicted in every way, but ...

5. Sola Fide

1 Peter 1:3-9

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Dr. Ronald Love

... was writ- ten by the reformer John Calvin in 1536 likewise pointed out the necessity of those justified live by faith. It reads, “We confess that the entrance which we have to the great treasures and riches of the goodness of God that vouchsafed us is by faith; inasmuch as, in certain confidence and assurance of heart, we believe in the promises of the gospel.” The Geneva Confession says we enter into a relationship with Jesus by faith. We have confidence in our relationship with Jesus because ...

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