A Time to Be Renewed WHAT’S YOUR SPIRITUAL TEMPERATURE

Often in the, Bible we are warned against a false estimate of our spiritual condition. The church at Sardis had “a name that thou livest, and art dead” (Revelation 3:1). They had reputation without reality. The church at Laodicea boasted that it was rich, when in God’s sight it was...

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A Time to Be Renewed NOBODY’S PERFECT

The phrase “make you perfect” in Hebrews 13:21 is the translation of one Greek word, katartidzo. This word was familiar to the people who received the letter to the Hebrews. Doctors knew it because it meant “to set a broken bone.” To fishermen it meant “to mend a broken net.”...

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A Time to Be Renewed IT’S GREAT TO KNOW!

I recall stating to a friend, “I hear you lost your wife. I’m very sorry.” He replied, “No, I didn’t lose her. You can’t lose something when you know where it is—and I know where she is!” On the authority of the Word of God, we also know what will...

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A Time to Be Renewed DON’T BE AFRAID

Jesus is with His people no matter where they are. Dr. G. Campbell Morgan told about an experience in his early Christian life that involved this statement. Morgan used to visit several elderly ladies once a week to read the Bible to them. When he came to the end of...

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A Time to Be Renewed HONEST EVALUATION

“Not as though I had already attained!” This is the statement of a great Christian who never permitted himself to be satisfied with his spiritual attainments. Obviously, the Apostle Paul was satisfied with Jesus Christ, but he was not satisfied with his Christian life. A sanctified dissatisfaction is the first...

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A Time to Be Renewed MAKING OTHERS HAPPY

True Christian love seeks to share with others and make them happy. It willingly carries the younger Christians, helping them along in their spiritual development. It does not endure them. It encourages them! Paul shared the two sources of spiritual power from which we must draw if we are to...

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A Time to Be Renewed BE ONLY “SOJOURNER”

Peter reminds believers that they are only “sojourners” on earth. Life is too short to waste in disobedience and sin. It was when Lot stopped being a sojourner and became a resident in Sodom that he lost his consecration and his testimony. Everything he lived for went up in smoke!...

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A Time to Be Renewed THE RIGHT ATTITUDE

Jesus did not think of Himself; He thought of others. His attitude was that of unselfish concern for others. This is “the mind of Christ,” an attitude that says, “I cannot keep my privileges for myself, I must use them for others; and to do this, I will gladly lay...

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A Time to Be Renewed NEEDED: LOYALTY AND PURITY

The home is the first place where Christian love should be practiced. A Christian home begins with a Christian marriage in the will of God. This means loyalty and purity. Sex outside of marriage is sinful and destructive; sex within the protective bonds of marriage can be enriching and glorifying...

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A Time to Be Renewed WE HAVE GOD’S TRUTH

How can mortal man penetrate beyond the grave and find assurance and peace for his own heart? From Old Testament days till the present, mankind has tried to solve the riddle of death and the afterlife. Philosophers have wrestled with the question of immortality. Spiritists have tried to communicate with...

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