... his deepest need. Of course, Paul did keep the law. He knew that though the Law was imperfect, it still was necessary. Newell Dwight Hillis once pointed out an interesting thing. He noted that freedom increases in proportion to the number of laws one obeys ... a vision of an upward path that leads to Christ. And that vision makes all the difference in the world. 1. Peter Hay, BOOK OF LEGAL ANECDOTES, (New York: Barnes & Noble Books, 1989), pp. 166-167. 2. John Haggai, WINNING, (New York: Inspirational Press ...
... was his love for you and me that did it. Or in the words of a song we used to sing called "At Calvary" (by W. R. Newell): "Oh, the love that drew salvation's plan. Oh, the grace that bro't it down to man! Oh, the mighty gulf that God did span at ... . I learned only recently that Charlotte Elliott's "Just as I Am" was actually designed as a communion hymn. (For more see Peter Newman Brooks, Hymns as Homilies [Wiltshire, England: Gracewing, 1997], 186.) How I missed this is beyond me. The opening theme states it ...
... empowered the divine word, then had a Romans 7 moment: he fled from the Lord and was swallowed alive by a fish. Peter proclaimed Jesus to be “My Lord and my God” and led the disciples throughout Jesus’ ministry, then had a Romans 7 ... ourselves. That is not good news. It is given to tell us what we have forgotten, and that is who we are.” (J. Philip Newell, Echo of the Soul: The Sacredness of the Human Body [Harrisburg, PA: Morehouse Publishing, 2000], xiv.) Who we are is the reason Paul can finally ...
... offered a $30,000 reward to whomever could put out that fire. With all the large firehouses from cities like Newell, Chester, Wellsville, Dillonvale sent help. They sent their best companies accompanied by the most modern fire- fighting equipment available, but ... in the gospel of Mark that they had witnessed with their own eyes? In Mark 1 He cast out an unclean spirit; healed Peter's mother-in-law of a fever; healed an entire city of both disease and demonic possession, and cleansed the leper. In Mark ...
