By Robert Flynn on
9/2/2010 7:43 PM
The thought of “preparing for combat” invokes a great many visions in my mind—most are temporal but a few are eternal. After having been in attendance at many goat-ropings (wars that politicians refer to as police actions, peacekeeping missions, etc., if they acknowledge them at all) I can say without reservation that in the eternal sense there were not many occasions when, as a Christian, I was combat ready.
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By Robert Flynn on
9/1/2010 7:13 AM
If you find yourselves breathing hard at the end of the day, might I suggest in all humility (because I promise you that I am NOT the fount of all knowledge and wisdom) that you take stock of your activities and see if there isn’t some time that could be better used in your relationship with the Savior. “Blow up your TV (hyperbole mine) and try to find Jesus on your own!”
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By Robert Flynn on
8/31/2010 10:58 PM
Their sin and folly were that they did not hold fast the doctrine of Christianity as it had been preached to them, but suffered themselves to be removed from the purity and simplicity of it. (Matthew Henry)
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By Robert Flynn on
8/30/2010 1:16 PM
You are probably thinking that’s a rather silly title for an article. Maybe, maybe not. If it stimulated your curiosity to the point you are actually reading this, it accomplished the desired goal of the author! Therefore, it makes at least a little bit of sense. Agreed? Now on to the point.
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By Robert Flynn on
8/30/2010 1:04 PM
At the beginning of human history, two brothers presented their offerings to the Lord. Cain was a farmer, and he offered fruit from the ground. Abel was a keeper of the flocks, and he offered from the firstlings of his flock.
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By Robert Flynn on
8/30/2010 12:33 PM
This is an introduction to, and the first in a series of articles offering answers from Scripture to the above question. To say that this is an important question, that deserves serious consideration, is a huge understatement!
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By Robert Flynn on
8/26/2010 3:33 PM
The Fox News website (2/18/10) recently featured an audio recording by Rosie O’Donnell on a radio program in which she interviewed Janeane Garofalo who ranted against Elisabeth Hasselbeck.
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By Robert Flynn on
8/6/2010 7:28 AM
The greatest Part of Mankind, nay of Christians, may be said to be asleep... (William Law, Spirit of Prayer)
"Americans have long been accustomed to think of the values of religion and the values of republicanism as supporting each other…. (Mark A. Noll, America's God, From Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln)
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By Robert Flynn on
8/5/2010 7:00 PM
Where to politicians come from? An intellectual vacuum!
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By Robert Flynn on
8/5/2010 7:12 AM
Here is the Christian's proud privilege and almost terrifying responsibility. The honor of Christ and of the Church are in his hands. By his every word and action he can make men think more-or-less of his Church and of his Master. (William Barclay)
We use the weapons of righteousness in the right hand for attack and the left hand for defense. (2 Cor 6:7b NLT 2Ed)
We have righteousness as our weapon, both to attack and to defend ourselves. (2 Cor 6:7b GNB)
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By Robert Flynn on
8/1/2010 7:25 AM
Dr. Laurence M. Gould, president emeritus of Carleton College, said “I do not believe the greatest threat to our future is from bombs or guided missiles. I don’t think our civilization will end that way. I think it will die when we no longer care. Arnold Toynbee has pointed out that nineteen of twenty-one civilizations have died from within and not by conquest from without. There were no bands playing and flags waving when these civilizations decayed. It happened slowly, in the quiet and in the dark when no one was aware.”
Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all—the apathy of human beings. (Helen Keller, My Religion)
The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that’s the essence of inhumanity. (George Bernard Shaw, The Devil’s Disciple)
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By Robert Flynn on
7/29/2010 12:57 AM
The truth of God's almightiness in creation, providence, and grace is the basis of all our trust...(J.I. Packer, I Want To Be A Christian)
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By Robert Flynn on
7/28/2010 2:43 PM
"Sowing principles is shining the light of the Word of God in people's lives. Light dispels darkness. Holding believers accountable is encouraging them to walk in the light, helping them to discern truth from lies" (The Sower, Gary G. Hoag, ECFA Press)
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By Robert Flynn on
7/22/2010 7:31 AM
"Do not go beyond what is written" (1 Corinthians 4:6 NIV)
That struggle is not over; it is perennial and carries the potential for undermining the power of the Reformation today. (Richard B. Gaffin, Jr., B.D., Th.M., Th.D.)
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By Robert Flynn on
7/22/2010 2:16 AM
"Some have thought the soul question a question of the next world only, but it is a question of this world also; some have thought the soul question a Sabbath-day question only, but it is a week-day question as well; somehave thought the soul question a question for the ministers alone, but it is a question which we all must meet. Every day and every week, every monthand every year, from the time we reach the period of accountability until wedie, we--each of us--all of us, weigh the soul." William Jennings Bryan
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By Robert Flynn on
7/20/2010 12:02 AM
A representative has no right to defeat the wishes of those who elect him, if he knows their wishes. (William Jennings Bryan, The Price of a Soul)
"What shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul?" (Jesus Christ)
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By Robert Flynn on
7/17/2010 1:20 AM
What better can we do, than — prostrate fall Before him reverent; and there confess Humbly our faults, and pardon beg; with tears Watering the ground, and with our sighs the air Frequenting, sent from hearts contrite, in sign Of sorrow unfeign'd, and humiliation meek? (William Wilberforce, A Practical View of the Prevailing)
Devote yourselves to prayer with an alert mind and a thankful heart. (Colossians 4:2 NLT)
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By Robert Flynn on
7/16/2010 3:52 PM
"But we will give ourselves continually(G4342) to prayer, and to the ministry of the word." (Acts 6:4 KJV)
For God does not employ prayerless ministers, since He has no dumb children. (A. W. Pink)
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By Robert Flynn on
7/12/2010 7:20 AM
It is no wonder that the world looks upon the Christians of today in the same way they look upon the hopelessly insane!
“Repentance is a medicine for the cure of sin, a gift bestowed from above, an admirable virtue, a grace surpassing the power of laws.” (Chrysostom, as quoted in the Institutes of the Christian religion, John Calvin)
For no one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws them to Me, and at the last day I will raise them up. (John 6:44 NLT)
The reason why this is such a “hard saying,” even unto thousands who profess to be Christians, is because they utterly fail to realize the terrible havoc which the Fall has wrought; and, it is greatly to be feared, because they are themselves strangers to “the plague” of their own hearts. (A. W. Pink, Studies on Saving Faith)
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By Robert Flynn on
7/8/2010 9:50 PM
“The patriot who feels himself in the service of God, who acknowledges Him in all his ways, has the promise of Almighty direction, and will find His Word in his greatest darkness, ‘a lantern to his feet and a lamp unto his paths.’ He will therefore seek to establish for his country in the eyes of the world, such a character as shall make her not unworthy of the name of a Christian nation.” Francis Scott Key, (February 22, 1812)
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By Robert Flynn on
7/5/2010 9:43 AM
You have been believers so long now that you ought to be teaching others. Instead, you need someone to teach you again the basic things about God's word. You are like babies who need milk and cannot eat solid food. (Hebrews 5:12 NLT)
"Should not every believer teach someone else the fresh insights into biblical truth which he has acquired, warn of traps to be avoided, instruct in new lessons about Christ?" (Dr. Leslie B. Flynn, 19 Gifts of the Spirit)
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By Robert Flynn on
7/4/2010 1:49 PM
Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance. (1 Corinthians 13:4-7 NLT)
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By Robert Flynn on
7/2/2010 7:18 AM
And why, it may be asked, are we in this pursuit alone to expect knowledge without inquiry, and success without endeavour? (A Practical View of the Prevailing by William Wilberforce)
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By Robert Flynn on
6/29/2010 9:53 AM
There's a clever young fellow named Somebody Else—
There's nothing this fellow can't do.
He's busy from morning 'til way late at night
Just substituting for you. (Unknown)
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By Robert Flynn on
6/22/2010 5:26 AM
Yesterday was the longest day of the year with about 15 hours of sunlight.
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By Robert Flynn on
6/15/2010 1:12 PM
"There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fail about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other is to believe, and to feel an unhealthy interest in them." (C. S. Lewis, The Screw Tape Letters)
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By Robert Flynn on
5/27/2010 7:08 AM
"Their hearts were too hard to take it in." Mark 6:52b NLT
Satan goes on with mankind as he began with them. He prevailed against our first parents, cast them out of paradise, and suddenly brought all their happiness and glory to an end, by appearing to be a friend to their happy state, and pretending to advance it to higher degrees.…During the strife, Satan leads both parties far out of the right way, driving each to great extremes, one on the right hand, and the other on the left, according as he finds they are most inclined, or most easily moved and swayed, till the right path in the middle is almost wholly neglected. In the midst of this confusion, the devil has great opportunity to advance his own interest, to make it strong in ways innumerable, to get the government of all into his own hands, and to work his own will. (Jonathan Edwards)
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By Robert Flynn on
5/7/2010 9:05 AM
The most important job in America is the wives and husbands who remain home to watch and wait while their beloved is far away protecting the nation we love and the freedoms we enjoy. When I retired from the military, my retirement papers were signed by the Admiral. My wife received a letter and a framed certificate signed by the President of the United States—an honor justly deserved and earned with years of sacrifice. KUDOS to all who watch and wait, keep the home fires burning, raise the children, cook the meals, help with the homework, and make the military possible!
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By Robert Flynn on
5/6/2010 4:26 PM
May Book Offer - Living with Confidence in a Cahotic World by Dr. David Jeremiah
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By Robert Flynn on
4/16/2010 9:08 AM
What sorrow awaits the world, because it tempts people to sin. (Matthew 18:7 NLT2ndEd)
"Madison, WI — A federal judge in Wisconsin ruled the National Day of Prayer, saying the day amounts to a call for religious action."
As I look around our world today, I see how really fragile is our life here on planet Earth.
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By Robert Flynn on
4/12/2010 2:04 PM
"Live in such a way that God's love can bless you as you wait for the eternal life that our Lord Jesus Christ in his mercy is going to give you." (Jude 21 NLT96)
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By Robert Flynn on
4/7/2010 11:09 AM
Whenever God erects a house of prayer
The devil always builds a chapel there:
And ’twill be found, upon examination,
The latter has the largest congregation.
Daniel Defoe, Author of Robinson Crusoe
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By Robert Flynn on
4/6/2010 2:02 PM
Religion and politics ought to be wedded like a loving pair. (Senator Alfred Holt Colquitt)
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By Robert Flynn on
3/29/2010 10:48 AM
And they struck with blindness the men who were at the entrance of the house, both small and great, so that they wore themselves out groping for the door. (Genesis 19:11 ESV)
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By Robert Flynn on
3/19/2010 8:05 PM
The child of God is free. He has been delivered from every aspect of the law — as a rule of life, as an obligation to make himself acceptable to God, and as a dependence on the impotent flesh. Lewis Sperry Chafer
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By Robert Flynn on
3/18/2010 8:03 PM
In the realm of religion right choices are critically important. A.w. Tozer
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By Robert Flynn on
3/17/2010 8:02 PM
Question: Ought I not be left to the grace of God in my own heart?
The body of Christ in America is like unto a thousand rivets flying in close formation. A great assemblage of metal but hardly an airplane.
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By Robert Flynn on
3/16/2010 8:00 PM
"True spiritual Liberty is one of the most glorious things in the World, but it is little under stood and frequently abused by many." William Penn
Liberty or license? This is the question of our day. When the rest of the world is finding new ways of practicing hedonism and self-indulgence (neither of which is a new thing) what prevents the church from impacting the same lost persons with the Good News?
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By Robert Flynn on
3/15/2010 7:57 PM
Love God and Do What You Please (Saint Augustine)
Some would say that this phrase would be a call to sin without restraint or that it would become a motto for loose living. However, the first part of the phrase is, "Love God." If we truly love God, then it would follow that the things we do that please us would please Him as well. This is true Christian Liberty! Is there any Scriptural basis for this?
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By Robert Flynn on
3/1/2010 4:06 PM
All praise to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. He is the source of every mercy and the God who comforts us. He comforts us n all our troubles so that we can comfort others. When others are troubled, we will be able to give them the same comfort God has given us. You can be sure that the more we suffer for Christ, the more God will shower us with his comfort through Christ. So when we are weighed down with troubles, it is for your benefit and salvation! For when God comforts us, I is so that we, in turn, can be an encouragement to you. Then you can patiently endure the same things we suffer. We are confident that as you share in suffering, you will also share God's comfort. (2 Corinthians 1:3-7 NLT96)
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By Robert Flynn on
2/25/2010 8:48 AM
"But now I come to Thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they may have My joy made full in themselves. I have given them Thy word; and the world has hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. I do not ask Thee to take them out of the world, but to keep them from the evil one. They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world."-John 17:13-16
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By Robert Flynn on
2/19/2010 8:06 AM
They were God's chosen people; they had had a unique place in God's purposes; and yet when God's Son had come into the world they had rejected him and crucified him. How is this tragic paradox to be explained? (William Barclay)
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By Robert Flynn on
2/9/2010 6:27 AM
God made us to serve him, and enjoy him; but by sin we have made ourselves unfit to serve him, and to enjoy him. We ought, therefore, continually to beseech him, by his Holy Spirit, to give us understanding. The comforts some have in God, should be matter of joy to others. But it is easy to own, that God's judgments are right, until it comes to be our own case. All supports under affliction must come from mercy and compassion. The mercies of God are tender mercies; the mercies of a father, the compassion of a mother to her son. They come to us when we are not able to go to them. Causeless reproach does not hurt, and should not move us. The psalmist could go on in the way of his duty, and find comfort in it. He valued the good will of saints, and was desirous to keep up his communion with them. Soundness of heart signifies sincerity in dependence on God, and devotedness to him. (Matthew Henry)
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By Robert Flynn on
2/7/2010 10:46 AM
Christianity exists not merely as a power or principle in this world, but also in an institutional and organized form which is intended to preserve and protect (not to obstruct) it. Christ established a visible church with apostles, as authorized teachers and rulers, and with two sacred rites, baptism and the holy communion, to be observed to the end of the world. (Schaff, P., & Schaff, D. S. (1997). History of the Christian church.)
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By Robert Flynn on
2/1/2010 8:18 AM
It is an unquestionable truth, that if a man be not happy at home, he cannot be happy anywhere; and he who is happy there, need be miserable nowhere. (John Angell James, The Marriage Ring)
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By Robert Flynn on
1/27/2010 10:12 AM
And now, just as you accepted Christ Jesus as your Lord, you must continue to follow Him. (Colossians 2:6 NLT)
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By Robert Flynn on
1/25/2010 9:16 AM
That heart that is hard, impenetrable, and cold; the affections and passions that are unyielding, frozen to good, unaffected by heavenly things; that are slow to credit the words of God. I will entirely remove this heart: it is the opposite to that which I have promised you; and you cannot have the new heart and the old heart at the same time. (Dr. Adam Clarke)
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By Robert Flynn on
1/19/2010 8:14 AM
Satan is very clever: He knows exactly which bait to use for every place in which he fishes. (Arthur W. Pink, Studies on Saving Faith)
God knows people's hearts, and He confirmed that He accepts Gentiles by giving them the Holy Spirit, just as He did to us. He made no distinction between us and them, for He cleansed their hearts through faith. (Acts 15:8-9 NLT)
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By Robert Flynn on
1/15/2010 6:45 AM
January 15, 2010 - Claire Shackleford is at it again! We have been blessed to have such a wonderful array of inspiring Christian guests on our talk shows. The Lord is GOOD! We are happy to announce that Daryl Knudeson and Jody Mayhew will be on the show LIVE 1/15/10 at 9pm EST. Join our show live, participate in chat ... you can join us by going to our main website, ChristianMilitaryWives.Com and just click LISTEN. It's that simple!
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By Robert Flynn on
1/5/2010 7:21 AM
That’s Enough
The Rev. R. I. Williams telephoned his sermon topic to the Norfolk Ledger Dispatch.
"The Lord is my Shepherd," he said.
"Is that all?" he was asked. He replied, "That’s enough." And the church page carried Mr. William’s sermon topic as: "The Lord is my Shepherd—that’s enough."
The minister rather liked the idea. He used the expanded version as his sermon title that Sunday at Fairmont Park Methodist Church. —Gospel Herald
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By Robert Flynn on
12/25/2009 8:34 AM
Come close to God, and God will come close to you. Wash your hands, you sinners; purify your hearts, for your loyalty is divided between God and the world. (James 4:8 NLT)
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By Robert Flynn on
12/16/2009 7:00 AM
Many believers lack assurance. Since we live in a performance oriented society, we often transfer this expectation from the world into our religious expectations. The problem with this expectation is that "our salvation is not based upon our own performance, but on our relationship to Jesus Christ." (Billy Graham)
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By Robert Flynn on
12/15/2009 1:43 PM
We are being saved from the power of sin by faith!
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By Robert Flynn on
12/9/2009 1:30 PM
"We need to sort out our hurts and learn the difference between those that call for the miracle of forgiveness and those that can be borne with a sense of humor. If we lump all our hurts together and prescribe forgiveness for all of them, we turn the art of forgiving into something cheap and commonplace. Like a good wine, forgiving must be preserved for the right occasion." Lewis B. Smedes, Forgive and Forget.
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By Robert Flynn on
11/27/2009 7:31 AM
The only way to be kept from falling is to grow. (Robert Murray M'Cheyne)
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By Robert Flynn on
11/26/2009 7:04 AM
"The law of gravity tells you what stones do if you drop them; but the Law of Human Nature tells you what human beings ought to do and do not." C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
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By Robert Flynn on
11/25/2009 7:02 AM
Sexual immorality is one of the chief causes of divorce! That is why I continue to bring up the necessity for living the lives of purity to which we are called. It is time for the men of this country to take the hint from Job and make a covenant with our eyes! (Job 31:1)
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By Robert Flynn on
11/24/2009 6:59 AM
Temperance is, unfortunately, one of those words that has changed its meaning. It now usually means teetotalism. But in the days when the second Cardinal virtue was christened "Temperance," it meant nothing of the sort. Temperance referred not specially to drink, but to all pleasures; and it meant not abstaining, but going the right length and no further. (C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity)
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By Robert Flynn on
11/23/2009 6:57 AM
Let us say then, leaving unresolved problems behind us, that virtues are in general beneficial characteristics, and indeed ones that a human being needs to have, for his own sake and the sake of his fellows (Philippi Foot, Prof. Emeritus, UCLA, Virtue and Vices).
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By Robert Flynn on
11/20/2009 7:00 AM
Virtue — Moral goodness; the practice of moral duties and the abstaining from vice, or a conformity of life and conversation to the moral law. (Noah Webster)
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By Robert Flynn on
11/19/2009 7:00 AM
BLISS, n. The highest degree of happiness; blessedness; felicity; used of felicity in general, when of an exalted kind, but appropriately, of heavenly joys. (Noah Webster)
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By Robert Flynn on
11/18/2009 7:00 AM
Neither this belief nor any other will automatically remain alive in the mind. It must be fed. And as a matter of fact, if you examined a hundred people who had lost their faith in Christianity, I wonder how many of them would turn out to have been reasoned out of it by honest argument? Do not most people drift away? (C. S. Lewis, Virtue and Vice)
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By Robert Flynn on
11/17/2009 7:00 AM
"Vice and Virtue to the modern ear convey meanings twisted by our own culture and behavior. The word vice sounds benign, describing fundamentally harmless habits and attitudes, the kinds of things normal people do and feel." C. S. Lewis, Virtue and Vice
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By Robert Flynn on
11/16/2009 7:00 AM
“To love sin is far worse than to commit it, for a man may be suddenly tripped up or commit it through frailty.” Arthur W. Pink, A Fourfold Salvation
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By Robert Flynn on
11/13/2009 8:25 AM
A general reason, and the foundation of the entire argument: the kingdom of heaven consists not in these outward things, but in the study of righteousness, and peace, and comfort of the Holy Spirit. (Geneva Bible Translation Notes)
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By Robert Flynn on
11/10/2009 1:45 PM
Sometimes we can find encouragement in odd places.
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By Robert Flynn on
11/7/2009 10:04 AM
Our vocation or calling is free, and of grace, even as our predestination is: and therefore there is no reason why either our own unworthiness, or the unworthiness of our ancestors should cause us to think that we are not the elect and chosen of God, if we are called by him, and so embrace through faith the salvation that is offered us. (Geneva Bible Translation Notes)
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By Robert Flynn on
11/6/2009 7:32 AM
The man who walks along the path of life lives in the presence of the joy-giving God. (W. Hay Aitken, Thought for the Quiet Hour)
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By Robert Flynn on
11/5/2009 7:50 AM
For faith in the Lord Jesus brings him into the heart; and by his indwelling all his virtues are proved, and an excellence discovered beyond even that which his disciples beheld, when conversant with him upon earth. In short, there is an equality between believers in the present time, and those who lived in the time of the incarnation; for Christ, to a believing soul, is the same to-day that he was yesterday and will be for ever. (Dr. Adam Clarke)
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By Robert Flynn on
11/4/2009 8:46 PM
My brethren, count it all joy - Which is the highest degree of patience, and contains all the rest. (John Wesley)
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By Robert Flynn on
10/30/2009 7:14 AM
The word ‘meek’ usually refers to those who are patient in the reception of injuries, but the Hebrew word used here (ענוים ‛ănâviym) means properly the oppressed, the afflicted, the unhappy. It involves usually the idea of humility or “virtuous suffering”. Here it may denote the pious of the land who were oppressed, and subjected to trials. (Dr. Albert Barnes)
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By Robert Flynn on
10/29/2009 6:14 AM
Not with a civil worship, as he was sometimes worshipped by men, in the days of his flesh, who, though they took him for some extraordinary person, knew him not to be the Son of God; but with religious worship as God: for by his resurrection from the dead, Christ was declared to be the Son of God, and both by that, and by his going to his Father, his ascension to heaven, the disciples were more confirmed in his proper deity, and divine sonship; and therefore worshipped him as God; by calling upon his name, ascribing blessings and honor, and glory, to him; by making him the object of their reverence and fear; and by trusting in him; and by doing every religious act in his name, and which they ever after continued to do. (Dr. John Gill)
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By Robert Flynn on
10/28/2009 6:56 AM
This is the prayer of a man in bitter grief, whose human nature cannot at present submit to the divine will. God’s long-suffering toward the wicked seemed to the prophet to be the abandonment of himself to death; justice itself required that one who was suffering contumely for God’s sake should be delivered. (Dr. Albert Barnes)
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By Robert Flynn on
10/27/2009 6:38 AM
Those whom God loves as a Father, may despise the hatred of all the world. As the Father loved Christ, who was most worthy, so he loved his disciples, who were unworthy. All that love the Savior should continue in their love to him, and take all occasions to show it. The joy of the hypocrite is but for a moment, but the joy of those who abide in Christ's love is a continual feast. They are to show their love to him by keeping his commandments. If the same power that first shed abroad the love of Christ's in our hearts, did not keep us in that love, we should not long abide in it. Christ's love to us should direct us to love each other. He speaks as about to give many things in charge, yet names this only; it includes many duties. (Matthew Henry)
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By Robert Flynn on
10/26/2009 6:40 AM
A love that can never be fathomed;
A life that can never die;
A righteousness that can never be tarnished;
A peace that can never be understood;
A rest that can never be disturbed;
A joy that can never be diminished;
A hope that can never be disappointed;
A glory that can never be clouded;
A light that can never be darkened;
A happiness that can never be interrupted;
A strength that can never be enfeebled;
A purity that can never be defiled;
A beauty that can never be marred;
A wisdom that can never be baffled;
Resources that can never be exhausted. (Unknown)
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By Robert Flynn on
10/23/2009 7:03 AM
“On every question of construction, carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates, and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or invented against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed.” (Thomas Jefferson in a letter to William Johnson, June 13, 1823, University of Virginia on-line library).
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By Robert Flynn on
10/22/2009 6:16 AM
Oral Hygiene — "You'll wonder where the yellow went." I remember the jingle from the Pepsodent toothpaste commercial. I suppose with the advent of modern dentistry we would not think of letting the barnacles grow on our MacLean's smile. However, what about the moral decay we see in the world society each day?
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By Robert Flynn on
10/20/2009 7:00 AM
"But obedience in the matter of prayer is costly and takes commitment. On Monday night as our week of prayer began, a mere thirty-four adults showed up out of a regular church attendance of twenty-three hundred. By Thursday, only seventeen adults were praying. I was totally discouraged." Stephen Arterburn, Every Man's Battle
Perhaps some would find a book on the temptations men face and their fight for purity a strange place to find the aforementioned comment on prayer. However, I find it most timely indeed.
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By Robert Flynn on
10/20/2009 6:09 AM
It is a pitiful situation if the very light is darkness. This happens when the eye of the soul is too diseased to see the light of Christ. (A. T. Robertson)
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By Robert Flynn on
10/19/2009 7:00 AM
"There is in the Christian life great need of watchfulness and of prayer, of selfdenial and of striving, of obedience and of diligence. But "all things are possible to him that believeth." "This is the victory that overcometh, even our faith."
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By Robert Flynn on
10/18/2009 7:00 AM
What a difference there is between a deeply exercised and spiritually burdened heart pouring out itself before God in fervent supplication and the utterance of verbal petitions by rote! Arthur W. Pink
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By Robert Flynn on
10/17/2009 7:00 AM
A much loved prayer of St Francis of Assisi:
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By Robert Flynn on
10/16/2009 7:00 AM
"By consequence, 'whatsoever he doeth , it is all to the glory of God.' In all his employments of every kind, he not only aims at this (which is implied in having a single eye ), but actually attains it.... (John Wesley, A Plain Account of Christian Perfection)
The battle ensues in our culture to secularize the religious for the sake of tolerance in the public arena.
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By Robert Flynn on
10/15/2009 7:00 AM
We are evil, O God, and help us to see it and amend....Robert Lewis Stevenson - Vailima Prayers and Sabbath Morn
When we look into the mirror, what do we see?
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By Robert Flynn on
10/14/2009 7:00 AM
To-day we go forth separate, some of us to pleasure, some of us to worship, some upon duty.... (Robert Louis Stevenson-Vailima Prayers and Sabbath Morn)
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By Robert Flynn on
10/13/2009 9:44 AM
Lord, receive our supplications for this house, family, and country. Protect the innocent, restrain the greedy and the treacherous, lead us out of our tribulation into a quiet land.... (Robert Lewis Stevenson, Vailima Prayers and Sabbath Morn)
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By Robert Flynn on
10/12/2009 7:00 AM
The headline read, “Parish Rift Forms Between Descendants of Prominent Evangelical Leaders.” The underlying text conveyed that the descendants of two well-known ministers were wrestling for control of “a mega—church that is a bedrock of the religious right.”
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By Robert Flynn on
10/11/2009 7:30 AM
That is why it was not surprising that, at that time, I did not rejoice over the wonder of redemption, and that others could not see the joy of Jesus in me. And it was no wonder that I was not happy. I had taken the wrong path, the path of cheap grace, which was not the way of Jesus Christ and which could never lead me to the goal. If we do not fight, we will not be crowned. And what a fight the Lord demands of us! It is a fight to the point of shedding blood, as the letter to the Hebrews tells us (chapter 12: 4).
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By Robert Flynn on
10/10/2009 7:23 AM
Giving thanks for the providence and tender mercies of the day is fitting lest we presume upon the watchcare of His Sabboth Rest while we sleep defensless were it not for His Grace.
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By Robert Flynn on
10/9/2009 8:07 AM
All the Jews and Gentiles who have been invited by the preaching of the Gospel to receive justification by faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, and have come to the Gospel feast on this invitation. (Dr. Adam Clarke)
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By Robert Flynn on
10/9/2009 7:18 AM
How do you start your day? Is it with coffee only? We would think ourselves misused if we did not fill our stomachs with food. But what if we began our day without fellowship with the Father? Take a short sojourn with the Lion of Dundee and see if you might find some encouragement for your souls.
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By Robert Flynn on
10/8/2009 7:11 AM
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By Robert Flynn on
10/8/2009 7:09 AM
We are His lambs, and therefore ought to be ready to suffer, even to the death, without complaining. John Wesley, A Plain Account of Christian Perfection
"Do everything without complaining and arguing," (Philippians 2:14 NLT)
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By Robert Flynn on
10/7/2009 7:08 AM
Lord, enlighten us to see the beam that is in our own eye, and blind us to the mote that is in our brother’s. Robert Louis Stevenson-Vailima Prayers and Sabbath Morn
How quick we are to see fault in others! How crafty we are to justify our own actions and rationalize their effect.
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By Robert Flynn on
10/7/2009 6:43 AM
And that he might make known the riches of his glory,.... That is, his glorious riches, the perfections of his nature, his love, grace, and mercy, his wisdom, power, faithfulness, justice, and holiness; all which are most evidently displayed in the salvation of his people, here called vessels of mercy, which he hath afore prepared unto glory. (Dr. John Gill)
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By Robert Flynn on
10/6/2009 7:36 AM
The second answer is this, that God, moreover and besides that he justly decrees whatever he decrees, uses that moderation in executing his decrees, as is declared his singular mercifulness even in the reprobate, in that he endures them a long time, and permits them to enjoy many and singular benefits, until at length he justly condemns them: and that to good end and purpose, that is, to show himself to be an enemy and avenger of wickedness, that it may appear what power he has by these severe judgments, and finally by comparison of contraries to set forth indeed, how great his mercy is towards the elect. (Geneva Bible Translation Notes)
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By Robert Flynn on
10/6/2009 7:06 AM
No matter how much we anticipate the pending loss of a loved one, knowing the result of age, ill health, or injury will have its way in the end, their death still comes unexpectedly. Our hearts are never ready to say goodbye. Isaiah says that "we all do fade as a leaf." James says that our life is like a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes. Why is it then that as vapors we should cling so tightly to our sojourn here?
Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all comprehension, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. (Philippians 4:6-7 NASB)
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By Robert Flynn on
10/5/2009 7:03 AM
Lord, the creatures of thy hand, thy disinherited children, come before Thee with their incoherent wishes and regrets:
"Don't you realize that those who do wrong will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don't fool yourselves." (1 Corinthians 6:9 NLT)
We often wallow in our "vain resentments" and miss the blessing of Christ's work of Grace upon our hearts.
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By Robert Flynn on
10/4/2009 7:00 AM
PRAYER has to do with the entire man. Prayer takes in man in his whole being, mind, soul and body. It takes the whole man to pray, and prayer affects the entire man in its gracious results. E. M. Bounds — The Essentials of Prayer
"Yes you have been with me from birth; from my mother's womb you have cared for me. No wonder I am always praising you!" "Psalm 71:6 NLT)
The heart of prayer is found in the bending of the knee. It is found in the contrite heart of him who would confess that his heart is like a valley of dry bones that needs to be brought back to life (Ezekiel 37).
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By Robert Flynn on
10/2/2009 10:44 AM
Why is it that we cannot see the light of Christ? Because the church in America is full of “dark corners!” For the two hundred sixty-three years since the death of the great awakening, we have been seeing the fallen light and following a counterfeit gospel and worshipping an Anti-Christ and all the while telling ourselves that we are serving the Lord with great zeal!
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