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    Americans Approach to Giving

    Author
    Chris Willard and Jim Sheppard
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    Scripture
    Acts 20:35, Luke 6:38, Proverbs 3:9-10, Malachi 3:10, 2 Corinthians 9:6-7
    In their book Passing the Plate (Oxford, 2008), Christian Smith and Michael Emerson introduce the phrase “discretionary obligation” as a way to understand the typical American Christian’s approach to ...

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    Author
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
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    Be sincere, Be brief, Be seated.

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    Author
    John Piper
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    A covenant involves three things: Promises, which God will perform if the people keep the covenant. Commandments or terms, which the people must keep in order to receive the promises. Warnings, of wha...

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    Author
    Leonard Cohen
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    To every people the land is given on condition. Perceived or not, there is a Covenant, beyond the constitution, beyond sovereign guarantee, beyond the nation's sweetest dreams of itself.

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    Signed & Sealed

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    Tim Chester
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    Think of a contract. Think perhaps of an employment contract or a memorandum of sale or an IOU. What you hold in your hand is a sheet of paper with a series of commitments written on it. This is what ...

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    Author
    Stephen Charnock
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    In every repetition of communion by presenting the sacrament God confirms his resolution to stick to his covenant; and by eating it the receiver commits himself to keep close to the condition of faith...

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    Author
    Michael Lawrence
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    Covenants are not merely contracts or promises. Rather, covenants are relationships under authority, with both obligations and rewards. The terms and benefits of the relationship are spelled out, and ...

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    Gregory Spencer
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    As a language-user, I’m bound to all the audacious capacities and frustrating limits of words. We label, we name, we frame all of our experiences, past, present, and future. We give words to our inner...

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    Author
    Karl Barth
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    A being is free only when it can determine and limit its activity.

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    A Distinctive Kind of Contract

    Author
    Mark D. Roberts
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    Scripture
    Genesis 1:null, Genesis 6:18, Genesis 9:null, Genesis 9:11, Jeremiah 31:31, Luke 22:20
    Contracts. We all have them, by the dozens. In business, government, and in our personal lives, contracts provide structure and order for relationships that are essential to all of life. Contracts tel...

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    Author
    A.W. Pink
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    The Lord’s commands are rarely accompanied with reasons but they are always accompanied with promises, either expressed or understood.

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    The Covenants of Scripture

    Author
    Merrill F. Unger
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    Scripture
    Hebrews 13:20, Genesis 1:26-28, Genesis 1:26, Genesis 3:14-19, Genesis 3:14, Genesis 8:20-9, Genesis 9:5-6, Genesis 12:1-3, Galatians 3:16, John 8:56-58, 2 Corinthians 3:7-9, Deuteronomy 30:1-10, Deuteronomy 30:1, 2 Samuel 7:4-17, Luke 1:31-33, Acts 1:6, Revelation 19:16, Matthew 26:28, Mark 14:24, Luke 22:20, Hebrews 8:8-12, Galatians 3:13-20
    Eternal covenant, Heb 13:20—The redemptive covenant before time began, between the Father and the Son. By this covenant we have eternal redemption, an eternal peace from the ‘God of peace’, through th...

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    Author
    Thomas Manton
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    Now the covenant mutually binds us. God binds himself to give grace to us, and we bind ourselves to live for God…So sacraments on God’s part are signs and seals of the promise of grace; on our part, t...

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    Sealed With the Spirit

    Author
    Max Lucado
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    Scripture
    Ephesians 4:30, Galatians 4:6-7, Romans 8:16-17, 2 Corinthians 1:21-22, Ephesians 1:13-14, 1 John 3:24
    Seal. You know the verb. You twist a jar lid to seal the pickles. You lick an envelope to seal the letter. You notarize the contract to seal the deal. Sealing declares ownership and secures contents. ...

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    Author
    Jane Bryant
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    The three immutable facts: You own stuff. You will die. Someone will get that stuff.

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    Author
    William T. Cavanaugh
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    Things are not ends in themselves; they are means to greater attachment to others. . . . But to have a good relationship with others, it is necessary to have a proper relationship with things.

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    John Calvin
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    A Sacrament is an external sign, by which the Lord seals on our consciences his promises of good-will toward us, in order to sustain the weakness of our faith, and we in turn testify our piety towards...

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    Matthew Henry
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    Thou hast taken me into covenant with thee, for I am a baptized Christian, set apart for thee and sealed to be thine; thou hast laid me, and I have also laid myself, under all possible obligations to ...

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    Author
    John Calvin
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    The sacraments are an external sign, by which the Lord seals on our consciences his promises of good-will toward us, in order to sustain the weakness of our faith, and we in our turn testify our piety...

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    Author
    John Rawls
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    Scripture
    Galatians 3:28, Isaiah 56:1, Proverbs 31:8-9, Leviticus 19:15, James 2:1
    The fairest rules are those to which everyone would agree if they did not know how much power they would have.

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    Author
    John Calvin
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    Let it be regarded as a settled principle that the sacraments have the same office as the Word of God: to offer and set forth Christ to us, and in him the treasures of heavenly grace.

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    Author
    Augustus Toplady
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    I infer that God's decrees, and the necessity of event flowing thence, neither destroy the true free-agency of men, nor render the commission of sin a jot less heinous. They neither force the huma...

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    Save Only Plenty

    Author
    Richard Halverson
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    The author John Steinbeck once wrote a letter to the diplomat Adlai Stevenson, which was later published in the Washington Post in January of 1960. In it Steinbeck said, “A strange species we are. We ...

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    Author
    Stephen Charnock
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    The gospel sacraments seal the gospel promises, as a ring confirms the covenant of marriage.

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    Author
    John Flavel
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    Grace makes the promise and providence the payment.

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    The Elderly Contractor

    Author
    Source Unknown
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    Scripture
    Psalm 127:1, Matthew 25:23, Luke 16:10, Ecclesiastes 9:10, Proverbs 22:29, 1 Corinthians 3:13-14, Galatians 6:7
    An elderly master carpenter was ready to retire. He told his employer of his plans to leave the house building business and live a more leisurely life with his wife enjoying his extended family. He w...

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    Author
    G. Campbell Morgan
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    No one statement wrested from its context is a sufficient warrant for actions that plainly controvert other commands. How excellent a thing it would be if the whole Church of Christ had learned that n...

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    Equivocating on Promises: Pierre from Tolstoy’s War & Peace

    Author
    Leo Tolstoy
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    Scripture
    Psalm 119:11, Proverbs 3:5-6, 1 Corinthians 10:13, Galatians 5:16-17, Matthew 5:37, Proverbs 14:12
    In this excellent little character study, Tolstoy describes the inner monologue of the character Pierre Bezuhov from War & Peace , who is able to justify and convince himself that a promise made ...

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    Author
    Emily Dickinson
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    The Props assist the House Until the House is built And then the Props withdraw And adequate, erect, The House support itself And cease to recollect The Auger and the Carpenter— Just such a retrospect...

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    Author
    Benjamin Franklin
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    In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
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