The following is the manuscript of the sermon preached last Sunday by Jase Hammock. You can read more from Jase at his blog here. “How lonely sits the city that was full of people!How like a widow has she become, she who was great among the nations! She who was a princess among the provinces has become a slave.” Lamentations 1:1 …
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Blessed are the meek,for they shall inherit the earth. Matthew 5:5 ESV Few figures in history are as interesting to read about as Julius Caesar. Consider one story that is given to us by Plutarch. At twenty-five, Caesar was traveling to Bithynia, but during that voyage, he was captured by pirates. Seeing by his clothing …
Blessed are those who mourn,for they shall be comforted. Matthew 5:4 ESV As I walked through the wilderness of this world, I lighted on a certain place, where was a Den, and I laid me down in that place to sleep: And as I slept, I dreamed a Dream. I dreamed, and behold I saw …
Then Naomi her mother-in-law said to her, “My daughter, should I not seek rest for you, that it may be well with you? Is not Boaz our relative, with whose young women you were? See, he is winnowing barley tonight at the threshing floor. Wash therefore and anoint yourself, and put on your cloak and …
The Lord used Martin Luther mightily to start the Protestant Reformation. While other Reformers like John Calvin would refine Protestant doctrine, Luther was a bull in a China closet who brought the Middle Ages to a close and ushered in the Modern Era of history. And like Athanasius before him, Luther stood contra mundum, against …
The words of King Lemuel. An oracle that his mother taught him: What are you doing, my son?What are you doing, son of my womb?What are you doing, son of my vows?Do not give your strength to women,your ways to those who destroy kings.It is not for kings, O Lemuel,it is not for kings to …
Dietrich Bonhoeffer once wrote: In many churches the Psalms are read or sung every Sunday, or even daily, in succession. These churches have preserved a priceless treasure, for only with daily use does one appropriate this divine prayerbook. When read only occasionally, these prayers are too overwhelming in design and power and tend to turn …
See with what large letters I am writing to you with my own hand. It is those who want to make a good showing in the flesh who would force you to be circumcised, and only in order that they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ. For even those who are circumcised …
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Let the one who is taught the word share all good things with the one who teaches. Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap. For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to …
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Brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Keep watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted. Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. For if anyone thinks he is something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself. But …
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B. C. Newton 