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Desmond Ford

February 2, 1929 – March 11, 2019

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    "To those who have been called, who have loved by God the father and kept by Jesus Christ . . ."(Jude 1).

    December 31, 2017

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    As far as we know, humans are the only creatures that experience their existence as 'a dusty scuffle across a parched terrain' ; 'a tale told by an idiot; full of sound and fury and signifying nothing.'  The gospel finds us at the level of our primal fears and longings...

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    "You diligently study the Scriptures because you think that by them you possess eternal life. These are the Scriptures that testify about me" (John 5:39).

    December 30, 2017

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    Ron Allen

    'Can't see the wood for the tree!' Many Bible scholars are atheists. Many experts in chapter, verse and provenance find these very useful tools for biblical research. But to what end?  The Bible is not about itself; its burden is the Creator God and his self-revealing...

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    "This is what the Lord Almighty says: 'Administer true justice; show mercy and compassion to one another" (Zechariah 7:9).

    December 29, 2017

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    Many who seek redress in the courts fail to find it there. A sufficient setting right of wrongs goes begging. The strict enforcement and judicial application of the law does not amount to 'true justice.' The missing values are mercy and compassion. Were these two godly...

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    "I tell you the truth, who ever hears my word and believes him who sent me, has eternal life and will not be condemned; he has crossed over from death to life" (John 5:24).

    December 28, 2017

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    Death poses a question over every human life.  Why do we live; why do we die; will our living have a meaning that goes beyond death; will it have been a success of a failure?  In one way or another, we all want an answer to this conundrum. Jesus meets us with his claim...

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    "Shout and be glad O daughter of Zion, for I am coming, and I will live among you, declares the Lord" (Zechariah 2:10).

    December 27, 2017

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    Ron Allen

    Ideal religion centers not on our approach to God but on his approaching us. The difference between those two models of spirituality is also the difference between a dull and laborious devotion and one that causes the spirit to soar with gladness. Such joy is driven to...

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    "Jesus answered, 'Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life'" (John 4:13,14).

    December 26, 2017

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    The stunning success of science since the 17th century made us confident enough to assert that self-conscious life is the product of time plus chance; that matter is all there is, and we are just highly sophisticated matter. But we cannot live as if that is so. Matter...

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    "For God loved the world so much that he gave his one and only Son . . ." (John 3:16).

    December 25, 2017

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    Ron Allen

    Love's chief element is giving. To give from one's surplus, from one's abundance is cheap. But to give what is irreplaceable is costly. The Firstborn son in an Ancient Near Eastern family was tantamount to the father's giving up himself; it was an unthinkable sacrifice...

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    " . . . These are the horns that scattered Judah so that no one could raise his head, but the craftsmen have come to terrify them and to throw the horns of the nations that lifted up their horns against the land of Judah to scatter it's people" (Zechariah 1:21).

    December 24, 2017

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    Horns are symbols of strength and conquering power in the Bible. Here, Babylon and Medo-Persia are in view. Amazingly, there hegemony will not be ended by power similar to theirs. Instead lowly craftsmen--builders--will put them to flight. God does not use conventional...

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    "Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his flocks and herds?" (John 4:12).

    December 23, 2017

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    It's hard for us to conceive of greater personalities and greater events than those we have looked to from within our own cultural history. A man blind from his birth who has learned to make his way in the world using his stick, struggles to imagine a more dependable d...

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    "'Be strong all you people of the land,' declares the Lord, 'and work. For I am with you,' declares the Lord Almighty" (Haggai 2:4).

    December 22, 2017

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    A mother says to her small child, 'Come on sweetie, you can do it; Mommy is here.'  What is she trying to achieve?  Her offspring's maturity into fully functioning, self-conscious, self-determining being.  If God did for us, all that he asks of us, he would do a better...

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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

    " . . . He has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and into an inheritance that can nev...

    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...

    July 27, 2018

    "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

    "It was revealed to them that were not serving themselves but you, when they spoke of the things that have now been told you by those who have pr...

    July 25, 2018

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

    July 24, 2018

    "Like newborn babies crave pure spiritual milk so that you may grow up in your salvation, now that you have tasted that the Lord is good" (1...

    July 23, 2018

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    " . . .So we too have put our faith in Christ Jesus that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by observing the law" (Galatians 2:1...

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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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