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A Distinctive Kind of Contract
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Mark D. Roberts
Keywords
- Covenant
- Contracts
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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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The Difference between a Contract and a Covenant
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Jonathan Sacks
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- Relationships
A contract is a transaction. A covenant is a relationship. Or to put it slightly differently: a contract is about interests. A covenant is about identity. It is about you and me coming together to for...
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Michael Lawrence
Keywords
- Covenant
- Authority
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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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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Leonard Cohen
Keywords
- Covenant
- Land
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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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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John Piper
Keywords
- Covenant
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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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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The Covenants of Scripture
Author

Merrill F. Unger
Keywords
- Covenant
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

Walter Wangerin Jr.
Keywords
- Weddings
Scripture

Song of Solomon 8:6-7, Hebrews 13:4, Matthew 19:4-6, Genesis 2:18, 21-24
Marriage begins when two people make the clear, unqualified promise to be faithful, each to the other, until the end of their days. That spoken promise makes the difference. A new relationship is init...
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Scot McKnight
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- Covenant
- God's Love
God's love entails a covenant commitment on the part of with us, and that covenant commitment means a promise to be with us and for us, and God's covenant is shaped toward our redemption.
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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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Eternal God, whose covenant with us is
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Eternal God, whose covenant with us is never broken, we confess that we fail to fulfill your will. Though you have bound yourself to us, we will not bind ourselves to you. In Jesus Christ you serve u...
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Author

E. M. Cioran
Keywords
- Love
- Romantic Love
Scripture

Acts 18:1-3, Romans 16:3-4, 1 Samuel 18:20, Ephesians 4:2, Philippians 2:3-4, 1 Peter 4:8
Love is an agreement on the part of two people to overestimate each other.
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The Death Pledge
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Patrick Foote
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Mortgage is a French word. It’s a combination of two Old French words, mort meaning “death” and gage meaning “pledge.” Yep, signing a mortgage means you are signing a death pledge. It was named this a...
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Author

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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- Marriage
The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt.
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Author

Henry Winkler
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- Relationships
Assumptions are the termites of relationships.
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The Elderly Contractor
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Source Unknown
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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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Rowan Williams
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Marriage has a unique place because it speaks of an absolute faithfulness, a covenant between radically different persons, male and female; and so it echoes the absolute covenant of God with his chose...
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O God, you make covenants with us and
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Chip Hardwick
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O God, you make covenants with us and never break them. We find it much harder to keep our word. We offer promises we don’t intend to keep, and we make deals that we intend to break. All too often we ...
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Dwight L. Moody
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2 Corinthians 11:23-28, Ruth 1:16-18, Mark 2:1-12, Genesis 22:1-19, Colossians 3:14
Faith makes all things possible. Love makes all things easy.
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Keeping His Promises
Author

Ben Patterson
Keywords
- Promises
- God's Promises
Scripture

Romans 8:28, Jeremiah 29:11
God’s dealings with us are always on the order of what he did with Abram and Sarai. He makes his promises, and he will keep his promises; but just how and when he will keep them is something for which...
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Alistair I. Wilson and Jamie A. Grant
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Exodus 6:6-8, Leviticus 26:12
The idea of covenant is fundamental to the Bible’s story. At its most basic, covenant presents God’s desire to enter into relationship with men and women created in his image. This is reflected in the...
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This is the covenant that I will make
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Jeremiah 31:31-34
This is the covenant that I will make with them, after those days, says the Lord: I will put my laws on their hearts, and write them on their minds… I will forgive their inquity and I will remember th...
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Cohabitation and the Definitely Maybe Relationship
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Jonathan Grant
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The tension between autonomy and intimacy is most clearly evidenced in the trend toward cohabitation. Today, between 50 and 70 percent of American couples are cohabiting before or instead of marrying....
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Author

Herman Bavinck
Keywords
- Covenant
- Covenant of Grace
Faith and repentance are as much benefits of the covenant of grace as justification . . . . faith and repentance themselves . . . . are components of the gospel, not the workings or fruits of the law.
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Osmo Wiio
Keywords
- Communication
Communication usually fails, except by accident
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Stephen Covey
Keywords
- Trust
Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.
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Timothy Keller
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Covenant community is like air. We don't miss it until we need it.
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Author

Hilda Of Whitby
Keywords
- Gifts
- Stewardship
Trade with the gifts God has given you.