My pastor gave an appropriate analogy yesterday.
Imagine, he suggested, that you want to get a classroom full of middle-school boys to learn math. They refuse to pay any attention. So you consider all your alternatives and finally settle on a plan. You hire an attractive female teacher–in her twenties–and have her stand at the front [...]

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“And if you calll on him as Father who judges impartially according to each one’s deeds, conduct yourselves with fear throughout the time of your exile, knowing that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your forefathers…”
Have you ever stood right on the edge of a cliff–or even a curb. Or have you [...]

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In John Bunyan’s greatest book The Pilgrim’s Progress, Christian comes to Interpreter’s house shortly after he has entered upon the way of life. Interpreter is a figure of the Holy Spirit, who leads him about showing him what he needs to know through images and the experiences of other people. Toward the end of his [...]

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