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February 2, 1929 – March 11, 2019

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    "Therefore my dear brothers, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourself fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain" (1 Corinthians 15:58)

    April 30, 2016

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    This comes at the end of a chapter affirming the resurrection of Christ. His way of thinking, believing, doing and relating to everything and everybody was more enduring than death. That is a fact that bears advantageously upon all other human life.   There is a way of...

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    " And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins" (1 Corinthians 15:17)

    April 29, 2016

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    Some of the Corinthians were professing unbelief in the prospect of a general resurrection.  Paul runs the argument backwards. He says the repudiation of the resurrection at the last day necessarily involves the repudiation of God's resurrection of Jesus.  This would h...

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    "But if it is preached that Christ has been raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection?" (1 Corinthians 15:12)

    April 28, 2016

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    Once in history, a person who convinced his contemporaries that he was as human--or more so--than they were, died a horrible, public death, was buried in a known grave, and within three days walked, talked, ate and spoke with, hundreds of his friends and adherents.  Be...

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    "Now brothers, I want to remind you of the gospel I preached to you" (1 Corinthians 15:1)

    April 27, 2016

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    Despite it being the "good, glad, and merry tidings that causeth the hard to sing and the feet to dance," the gospel of Christ is not the default mindset of human nature.  It needs to be preached to the world, and to believers--repeatedly. For this reason, Christians o...

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    "Jesus said, 'Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these" (Matthew 19:14)

    April 26, 2016

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    When grandma came to visit, she would often raise her index finger and solemnly warn me that 'little children should be seen but not heard.' Hers was a wisdom widely acknowledged, then. Today the same vintage sagacity survives in different guises. In its most extreme f...

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    "Love never fails" (1 Corinthians 13:8)

    April 25, 2016

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    Many a betrayed lover might well question that assertion. But the writer would not contest the myriad instances of love's demise within human relationships. Rather, he seeks to highlight the provisional nature of things other than love, to which some religious folk att...

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    "If I give all my possessions to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing"(1 Corinthians 13:3)

    April 24, 2016

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    Altruism is not necessarily honorable. Humans are known to behave in ostensibly noble ways for base reasons.  This helps explain why there are people who are dedicated and idealistic, who are nevertheless calculating, cold and mean.  Much religion is like this, and rel...

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    April 23, 2016

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    Paul is using the human body as a metaphor for the church. The local church that realizes the ideal here envisaged, is a great church family to belong to. Every person is important; every one valuable.  It hardly needs to be said, that the same principle applied to the...

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    "Do not call conspiracy everything that these people call conspiracy; do not fear what they fear, and do not dread it" (Isaiah 8:12).

    April 22, 2016

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    A secular, or an apostate society, does have its standards, but they are seldom true or good. Without God the supreme moral arbiter, humanity is reduced to superstition. Fearing not God, it fears all else--disease, death, natural catastrophe, economic hardship, materia...

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    " . . . Thus you nullify the word of God for the sake of your tradition" (Matthew 15:6).

    April 21, 2016

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    The propensity to reverence one's own beliefs and customs more than the values of God is a universal human propensity. We are all natural-born Pharisees. Far easier to try to get God to sign off on our tradition than to submit to the searing moral challenge inherent in...

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    "Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs" (1 Timothy 6:10).

    August 1, 2018

    "Jesus replied, 'The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified'" (John 12:23).

    July 31, 2018

    "In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials" (1 Peter 1:6).

    July 30, 2018

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    July 29, 2018

    "Simon Peter asked him, 'Lord, where are you going?' Jesus replied, 'Where I am going you cannot follow now, but you will follow late...

    July 28, 2018

    "Though you have not seen him you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and g...

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    "And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am" (John 14:3).

    July 26, 2018

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    July 25, 2018

    "If you really knew me, you would know my father as well" (John 14:7).

    July 24, 2018

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    July 23, 2018

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    "Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously" (2 Corinthians 9:6).

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