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When we encounter Jesus, we find that his life is full of paradoxes. He is great yet vulnerable; human yet divine; born, but of a virgin; the Life, yet he died; without sin yet suffered divine punishment; ascended to Heaven yet always with us; followed by some but rejected by others....

Most people live just in the pressures and problems of their immediate day to day life and can't rise up above it. You need to be gripped by a vision of where your life is going and what you're called to be and to do. If we have no concepts about what God has prepared for us we just fritter away our...

In the year 1677, a Confession of Faith was published by the Baptists, in London and vicinity. This Confession of Faith was reprinted in the year 1689, having been approved and recommended by the Ministers and Messengers of above an hundred congregations in England and Wales—signed by Hanserd Knollys,...

Immerse Your Church in a Season of Prayer Throughout the Bible we see God working through periods of forty-forty days, forty years, etc. Sermon Outlines for Busy Pastors: 40 Days of Prayer gives the pastor a 7 seek series, covering 40 days, to bring the church and himself into a concentrated...

Applying the Bible to Today's Church Life Through the Bible, God speaks directly to the church of the 21st century, and He speaks no louder than in 1 Corinthians. Sermon Outlines for Busy Pastors: Questions from Corinth is a 12 sermon series following the answers Paul has for the Corinthian...

Mercy is the refusal to inflict harm under circumstances of provocation, when one has the power to inflict it. It's the compassionate treatment of an offender or adversary. It could also be seen as a compassionate treatment of the unfortunate and helpless; sometimes favour. Mercy is the disposition...

On the eve of setting out for the East, to aid his uncle Valens in repelling a Gothic invasion, Gratian, the Emperor of the West, requested St. Ambrose to write him a treatise in proof of the Divinity of Jesus Christ. Gratian's object in making this request was to secure some sort of preservative...

Arianism is the theological teaching attributed to Arius (ca. AD 250–336), a Christian presbyter in Alexandria, Egypt, concerning the relationship of God to the Son of God (Jesus of Nazareth). Arius asserted that the Son of God was a subordinate entity to God the Father. Deemed a heretic by the...

Paul said he was made a minister according to God’s dispensation, given to him to fulfill the Word of God and to preach the mystery which had been hid from ages and generations—a mystery which not even Abraham knew, nor David, nor Isaiah, but is now made manifest to His saints, to whom—to the...

The church was established as the evangelizing agency of the Kingdom. The chief reason for the existence of the church is that it might be a recruiting station for the armies of Prince Immanuel. Within its walls, in its services, the saints were to learn the message of salvation, to be inspired by...

It was a great turning point in my ministry, when, after much thought and study and meditation, I became satisfied that the Baptism with the Holy Spirit was an experience for to-day and for me, and set myself about obtaining it. Such blessing came to me personally, that I began giving Bible readings...

This book has been written for two reasons: first, because it seemed to be needed; second, to save the writer time and labor. Letters are constantly coming in from all quarters asking how to study the Bible. It is impossible to refuse to answer a question so important as that, but it takes much time...

From the introduction: Dr. Hills is conceded to be in the very foremost rank of theologians in the holiness movement. This short treatise is as fine a piece of work as Dr. Hills ever has done and we feel that it should be given a wide circulation. The doctrine of entire sanctification as set...