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And Elijah came near to all the people and said, “How long will you go limping between two different opinions? If the Lord is God, follow him; but if Baal, then follow him.” And the people did not answer him a word. ~ 1 Kings 18:21

#elijah #people #limp bizkit #baal #answer

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And to this people, you shall say: "Thus says the Lord: Behold, I set before you the way of life and the way of death." ~ Jeremiah 21:8

#people #say #lord #life #death

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And if it is evil in your eyes to serve the Lord, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. ~ Joshua 24:15

#evil #eyes #pro-choice #river #house

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“See, I have set before you today life and good, death and evil. If you obey the commandments of the Lord your God that I command you today, by loving the Lord your God, by walking in his ways, and by keeping his commandments and his statutes and his rules, then you shall live and multiply, and the Lord your God will bless you in the land that you are entering to take possession of it. ~ Deuteronomy 30:15-16

#today #good #evil #statutes #multiply

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God pleads with sinners to choose Christ over unbelief; reconciliation with God, not enmity with Him; repentance rather than sin; and life instead of death.

John MacArthur

#i beg i plead #pro-choice #reconciliação #enmity #life and death

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#fresh #act #hard yakka #heart #blunt

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"Christians have every reason to hope. God has promised to rescue His church. He has bought us out of everlasting condemnation through the blood of Christ. God does not leave His people aimless in this world but sets our sights on the horizons of history, reminding us how He so richly cares for His people. Never lose heart, believer. History rolls on, and Christ has promised that the gates of hell will never prevail against His church."

~ Harrison Perkins

#christian #hope #horizonedit #roll on #history

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#poor #recovery #blind #year #favor

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"When Christ comes back to judge, Jude makes clear that it is to rescue His church. Hardship plagues God’s people in this age as we bear up under those who pressure the church to distort grace and reject Christ. Maybe those pressures are from the outside, from those who rebel against the Lord. But maybe those pressures come from within, as Jude addressed those claiming to be Christians who are leading the church astray."

~ Harrison Perkins

#jude #rescue efforts #plague #under pressure #christianity

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"When Christ came the first time, He went to the cross, enduring God’s full wrath as He hung nailed to those beams. He underwent every measure of penalty owed to those who break God’s law. If you are a Christian, He did so to take your place on the executioner’s block. Everyone trusting Christ needs to know that they are safe from condemnation. Jesus paid for your sin and earned your place in heaven. When Christ returns, you will not bear the force of His judgment because He has already endured that for you to ensure your everlasting life with Him. "

~ Harrison Perkins

#cross #block #paid #force #life

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"The first time that the Son came to earth, He came to set the captives free. He came to rescue us from the exact judgment that He will inflict upon everyone who does not believe when He comes again."

~ Harrison Perkins

#first time #earth #free #come again #jesus

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"The problem is that we have all committed treason against God. There is not a single one of us who has not offended God by our sin. We are all rebels against our Maker like the treacherous Israelites, the fallen angels, Korah’s followers, and false teachers."

~ Harrison Perkins

#treason #single #rebel #israelite #korah

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"Since the advent of sin, people have sought to ruin God’s people if they could... there have always been those trying to sit under the eaves of the church, if not sit at the head of our table with godless purposes in their hearts."

~ Harrison Perkins

#christianity #advent #people #church #table

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Julie Lowe, a licensed professional counselor and faculty member at the Christian Counseling and Educational Foundation in Glenside, Pa., explained that unchecked affirmation creates a crisis in kids.

#american #teenagers #counseling #affirmation #sexuality

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Still Active

The Holy Spirit is still active in the lives of his children. Whether he is convicting us of sin, comforting us in our hardship, or bearing witness with our spirit that we are the children of God, all of this activity affects us and those around us. Even when we are under his chastening hand, it affects more than just us. In working in our lives, the Lord impacts the lives of those we encounter, even if they do not know the Lord themselves. Sometimes the work is salvific, and other times it is in judgment. ~ D. Eaton

#holy spirit #hardship #witness #activity #chasten buttigieg

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Believers, as we struggle in our souls for nearness to God, a restored sense of His favor and delight, and new manifestations of His presence and power, we must learn to cry out to God from the depths--acknowledging God's holiness, our sin and rebellion, what our iniquities deserve and the great mercy of God in Christ that he continually shows us as we turn back to him from the depths. It is, in this way, that we will repeatedly experience in our souls the truth that there is "more mercy in Christ than sin in us"--as the Apostle boldly declared when he said, "Where sin abounded, grace did abound much more" (Rom. 5:20).

~ Nick Batzig

#christianity #restore #favor #screaming crying throwing up #grace

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If you suffer for the truth of the gospel, and you will, remember you’re in good company.

John MacArthur, Hard to Believe, p. 70

#suffer #gospel #persecution #martyre #good company