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    The Planet and the Body

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    The Pastor's Workshop
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    Scripture
    Genesis 1:1–3 , Job 38:4–7, Isaiah 45:18 , Colossians 1:16–17, Hebrews 3:4, Psalm 19:1–2
    Scientist John Haldane once proposed to the English priest Ronald Knox that, given the vast number of planets in the universe, the emergence of life by sheer chance was inevitable. Knox responded with...

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    The Tragedy of Missed Opportunities

    Author
    The Pastor's Workshop
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    Scripture
    Jeremiah 8:20, Matthew 23:37-38; 25:10, Luke 9:61-6, 2 Corinthians 6:2 , Acts 24:24–27, Hebrews 3:7–13
    History records the Battle of Cannae as perhaps Rome's most devastating military defeat, orchestrated by the tactical genius of Hannibal of Carthage. In the aftermath of this crushing victory, the...

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    Hell Begins…

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    C. S. Lewis
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    Scripture
    Philippians 2:14-15, 1 Corinthians 10:10, Hebrews 3:12-15, Matthew 13:41-42, Matthew 25:46
    Hell begins with a grumbling mood, always complaining, always blaming others…but you are still distinct from it. You may even criticize it in yourself and wish you could stop it. But there may come a ...

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    Spiritual Blindness in The Magician’s Nephew

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    C. S. Lewis
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    Scripture
    1 Corinthians 2:14, 2 Corinthians 4:4, Matthew 13:13-15, Acts 28:27, Hebrews 3:7-8, Jeremiah 7:24, John 10:27, Mark 6:52
    Jesus is clear that it is dangerous to close one’s ears, eyes, and heart to the leadings of the Holy Spirit. In The Magician’s Nephew , a novel from C. S. Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia series, Narnia i...

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    Thirty-one New Testament Descriptions of Sinful Mankind

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    L. Meredith
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    Scripture
    Ephesians 4:18, John 12:40, 2 Corinthians 4:4, 1 John 2:11, Romans 8:6, Matthew 7:17-18, 1 Timothy 6:5, Matthew 6:23, John 3:19, Romans 1:21, 1 John 1:6-7, John 5:24, Colossians 2:13, 1 Timothy 5:6, 1 John 3:14, Titus 3:3, Isaiah 64:6, Titus 1:15, 2 Peter 2:20, Revelation 22:11, Romans 1:18, Matthew 7:23, Ephesians 2:3, James 4:4, Matthew 6:22, John 3:20, Matthew 7:26, Ephesians 5:15, 1 Peter 2:25, Matthew 6:2, Romans 2:5, Hebrews 3:8, 2 Thessalonians 2:12, 2 Timothy 3:4, 1 John 2:15, Romans 1:30, 1 Timothy 6:4, James 4:6, 1 Peter 5:5, John 3:35, 2 Timothy 4:4, Acts 7:51, John 8:44, 2 Timothy 3:2, Revelation 3:17, John 3:34, Romans 6:16-17, Romans 1:25, John 8:33, Romans 7:7, 1 Corinthians 6:9
    Alienated from God (Eph. 4:18). Blind (John 12:40; 2 Cor. 4:4; 1 John 2:11). Carnally or fleshly minded (Rom. 8:6, 13). Corrupt (Matt. 7:17-18; 1 Tim. 6:5). Darkened (Matt. 6:23; John 3:19; Rom. 1...

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    Faith Requires Thought

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    D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
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    Scripture
    Hebrews 3:1, Psalm 19:1-2, Philippians 4:8, James 1:5, Romans 12:2, Proverbs 3:5-6
    Faith according to our Lord’s teaching in this paragraph is primarily thinking; and the whole trouble with a man of little faith is that he does not think. He allows circumstances to bludgeon him. . ....

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    Reasoning With the Choir

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    R. T. Kendall
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    Scripture
    Revelation 4:11, Hebrews 3:4, Colossians 1:15-17, Job 12:7-10, Isaiah 45:12, Romans 1:20
    In the Middle Ages there were theologians who wrote volumes on proofs of God. Anselm (1033–1109) came up with the ontological proof of God that there exists in our minds an idea of a being than which ...

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    The Devils Logic [Part 2 of 2]

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    Jared C. Wilson
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    Scripture
    Hebrews 3:13, 2 Corinthians 11:14, Proverbs 7:21-23, James 1:14-15, Genesis 3:6
    If I were making a list of benefits like the one Mike McKinley imagines, only this time using the devil’s actual logic, it might look more like this: Experience the excitement of new romance. Get th...

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    The Big Bang and Ex Nihilo (out of nothing)

    Author
    Francis S. Collins
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    Scripture
    Isaiah 45:12, Hebrews 3:4, Colossians 1:16, John 1:3, Psalm 90:2, Genesis 1:1
    We have this very solid conclusion that the universe had an origin, the Big Bang. Fifteen billion years ago, the universe began with an unimaginably bright flash of energy from an infinitesimally smal...

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    Switching Seats

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    Gary Thomas
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    Scripture
    Hebrews 3:4, Colossians 1:16, John 1:3, Psalm 90:2, Genesis 1:1
    A businessman moved over slightly as a young man crowded into the airplane seat next to him. As they both fastened their seat belts, the businessman good-naturedly asked whether the young man was trav...

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    Don't Let Your Conscience Be Hardened

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    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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    Scripture
    1 Timothy 4:2, Isaiah 6:10, Romans 2:5, Proverbs 4:23, Ephesians 4:18-19, Hebrews 3:13
    Do not let your conscience be hardened. It is like a body of water freezing in winter. It starts with a film of ice you can barely see. But once the film forms and the pond stays still, the glaze thic...
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