A Time to Be Renewed PLEASING GOD

Everybody lives to please somebody. Many people live to please themselves. They have no sensitivity to the needs of others. “The soul of a journey,” wrote William Hazlitt, “is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, and do just as one pleases.” That advice may work for a vacation, but it...

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A Time to Be Renewed CAN YOU FORGIVE AND FORGET?

What does it mean that God remembers our sins and iniquities no more? Does it mean that our all-knowing God can actually forget what we have done? If God forgot anything, He would cease to be God! The phrase “remember no more” means “hold against us no more.” God recalls...

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A Time to Be Renewed WHERE IS GOD?

Because we are human, it is natural for us to think mainly of ourselves when we are going through difficult times. We must constantly remind ourselves to walk by faith and to see God in the picture. After all, God is in control of this universe! “Yet the Lord will...

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A Time to Be Renewed WHEN THE BOOKS WILL BE BALANCED

I once heard Dr. W.A. Criswell tell about the faithful missionary couple who returned to the United States on the same ship that brought Teddy Roosevelt home from a safari in Africa. Many reporters and photographers were on the dock, waiting to see Roosevelt and interview him and take pictures;...

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A Time to Be Renewed NEW TASTE BUDS

Characteristically, little children lack discernment. A baby will put anything in his or her mouth. An immature believer will listen to any preacher on the radio or television and not be able to identify whether or not the sermon squares with Scripture. Just as our physical bodies have senses without...

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A Time to Be Renewed THE FAITH LOOK

How is a person born from above? How is he or she saved from eternal perishing? By believing on Jesus Christ; by looking to Him by faith. On January 6, 1850, a snowstorm almost crippled the city of Colchester, England, and a teenage boy was unable to get to the...

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A Time to Be Renewed RESTORING BROKEN RELATIONSHIPS

One of the most difficult things to do is to rebuild a shattered relationship. Unfortunately, there are many shattered relationships today—in homes, churches, and ministries—and they can be repaired and strengthened only when people face problems honestly, deal with them biblically and lovingly, and seek to get right with God....

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A Time to Be Renewed SUBMISSION: GOD COMMANDS IT

Younger believers should submit to older believers, not only out of respect for their age, but generally speaking also out of respect for their spiritual maturity. But this is not to suggest that older church members should “run the church” and never listen to the younger members! Too often there...

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A Time to Be Renewed OUR OBLIGATION TO THE SPIRIT

It is not enough for us to have the Spirit; the Spirit must have us! Only then can He share with us the abundant, victorious life that can be ours in Christ. We have no obligation to the flesh, because the flesh has only brought trouble into our lives. We...

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A Time to Be Renewed FACE ANGER HONESTLY

I have read that one out of every thirty-five deaths in Chicago is a murder, and that most of these murders are “crimes of passion” caused by anger among friends or relatives. Jesus did not say that anger leads to murder, He said that anger is murder. There is a...

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