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Lydia a Worshipper Down By The River
Lydia, a worshiper of God A brief outline of the opening of Europe to the Gospel of Jesus Christ beginning with the baptism of Lydia, a Jewish woman near a city with with few Jews. I’ll take you back to Philippi, Macedonia (geographically part of Greece) in the 1st c. superpower Empire of Rome and…
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REPENTANCE! Rated ‘R’ – but Not for Revival
I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction: repentance shall be hid from mine eyes. Hosea 13:14 KJV a Gathering of the Dead with NO Hope of Revival When the Prophets spoke a…
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Come over to Macedonia and Help us
2 Routes from Mysia to Macedonia Where have Paul, Silas and Timothy been? Traveling with the Gospel through several towns in the central plain of Turkiye, an area unfamiliar to most Europeans (and distant from US). These apostles could have continued from Derbe as before as they had journeyed through SYRIA & CILICIA. Acts 16:…
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What is the Chief End of Man? – Our #1 question
Perhaps you know this first QUESTION (What is the chief end of man?) of the Westminster Divines, actually a shortened version of the original. I could ask the first question of the Westminster Catechism (teaching) a different way. What is the Highest Goal of Mankind? Mankind, of course, includes womankind, just as Scripture frequently includes…
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Asia – Let’s Not Go There – Acts 16
The importance of this juncture in Paul’s journey, now with Silas and Timothy, cannot be overemphasized as these apostles are sent out beyond Asia into all the world of Euro-Asia. Asia – the BIG picture Growing up geographically-challenged (as my 5th grade teacher surely would have confirmed) in a small village far distant from Paul’s…
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He Leadeth me beside still waters – Psalm 23
He leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul: Psalm 23 – a song of calm confidence Many of us know it well. Perhaps we even recite the six verses of Psalm 23 even as I learned in the melodic flow of the King James Version of the Bible. The LORD is my…