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There is no use in mere formality. If your religion is without spiritual life, what is the use of it? Could you ride home on a dead horse? Would you hunt with dead dogs? Would anyone like to go into battle with a pasteboard helmet? When the sword fell on it, what use would such a helmet be? In the depth…

True progress is out of the question when everything is moving, road as well as carriage. There is a story told of a man who married his fourth wife, who had brought him money. The like had been the case with each of her predecessors. A friend said to him, “You seem to make a good thing of your wives,…

The form of godliness without the power is not worth the trouble it takes to put it together and keep it together. Imitation jewels are pretty and brilliant, but if you take them to the jeweler he will give you nothing for them. There is a religion that is all paste gems—a godliness that glitters but…

To have the form of godliness without the power of it is to lack constancy in your religion. It is a very hot and thirsty day, and you are riding on a camel. Suddenly there rises before you a beautiful scene. Just a little way from you are brooks of water flowing between beds of osiers and banks of reeds…

All of us have trouble appreciating our parents until we grow a little older and realize all they have done for us. But one man in India has gone a little farther in his lack of appreciation. Raphael Samuel has announced he is suing his parents for the awful way they have treated him selfishly. They…

Dean and Cristy Parave promote fitness, and spouse swapping to Christians on their website. “I don’t think God would be mad at what we are doing,” Cristy said. “At first I was conflicted, but the more we looked at it, the more it makes sense to us.”—Jim L. Wilson http://nypost.com/2014/09/25/these-christian-swingers-like-sharing-bible-verses-sex-partners/…

I recently read two headlines on the same day about medical care provided by public school nurses, following board policies, which left me scratching my head. One of the headlines read: “Outraged family: Girl breaks arm at Saugus school, no one calls 911” and the other one read, “NYC schools give out…

In The Divine Commodity: Discovering a Faith Beyond Consumer Christianity, Skye Jethani writes, “In our cultural quest for survival, driven by our fear of irrelevance, have evangelicals become Crypto-Christians? Have we clothed our faith with the forms of our American culture to the point that our Christianity…

In Emotionally Healthy Spirituality: Unleash A Revolution In Your Life in Christ, Peter Scazzero writes, “According to Gallup polls and sociologists, one of the greatest scandals of our day is that ‘evangelical Christians are as likely to embrace lifestyles every bit as hedonistic, materialistic, self-centered…

Do you see what I see? Purpose: To walk circumspectly, being aware of the traps that seek to draw us from God's goal in our lives. 2 Kings 6:17 Then Elisha prayed and said, “O Lord, I pray, open his eyes that he may see.” And the Lord opened the servant’s eyes and he saw; and behold, the mountain was…

In the September/October 2007 issue of Today's Christian, Shirley Shaw tells the story of how the sacrifices of a successful cabinet maker named Terry Lane continue to change a drug-riddled neighborhood in Jacksonville, Florida. My business had prospered to the point my 40-man staff needed more space…

When I was in the Navy I spent my last couple of years training sailors in various areas like maintenance, alcohol awareness, and integrity. One of the questions I used to ask the men and women in uniform was, “What do we do?” I’d get lots of answers depending upon who I was training, like “We maintain…

A character in the Star Wars movies can teach us a lesson about choices. When we meet Anakin Skywalker in Episode I he’s a young boy with a good heart who thinks Obi-Wan Kenobi is the coolest Jedi ever[1]. He’s full of good intent, wanting to free his mother from slavery. When we last see him in Episode…

When I was in the Navy I spent my last couple of years training sailors in various areas like maintenance, alcohol awareness, and integrity. One of the questions I used to ask the men and women in uniform was, “What do we do?” I’d get lots of answers depending upon who I was training, like “We maintain…

Paris Hilton gets out of jail today. As I write this message to you, that is the opinion of the media. She will be out this week. She will receive "over-the-top" coverage for her 20-plus days in the California county detention center. On Wednesday, she will appear on the Larry King show and, for her…

The Nature of Unsaved Men & Women Ephesians 2:3b-5 …we were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest. But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved)… Condition…

PROCLAMATION By the time the new Miss America, Erika Harold won the title of Miss Illinois; she had presented the abstinence message to more than 14,000 young people. Since 1900 Miss America and the affiliated state pageants have required contestants to adopt an official “platform” issue. As Miss Illinois,…

CULTURE "'Can't you lead a good life without believing in Christianity?' This is the question on which I have been asked to write, and straight away, before I begin trying to answer it, I have a comment to make. The question sounds as if it were asked by a person who said to himself, 'I don't care whether…

ADULTERY Mike Torchina doesn’t mind wearing a scarlet letter at all. In a recent article he wrote for Newsweek Magazine, he publicly stated that he’s had affairs with around 40 married women. He said, “I don’t feel bad about having had affairs with married women, because they were feeling neglected and…

John MacArthur Basisinformationen zur Bibel Christliche Literatur-Verbreitung Postfach 11 01 35 • 33661 Bielefeld Wenn nicht anders angegeben, sind die Bibelzitate der Schlachter 2000 entnommen. Abkürzungen weiterer Bibelausgaben: Elb.: Elberfelder Bibel, unrevidierte Fassung Lu 12: Lutherbibel von 1912…

A Christian Guide to Passover (PESCH) Below is a compilation of several contemporary Seder services that are used today. Because of the passage of time and that Passover was intended to be a family tradition, it is not possible to reconstruct with certainty the type of Passover meal or celebration that…