Tag: Grace
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Midweek Devotional: Salt Without Savor
Salt without Savor by Kim Larsen Mark 9:50, “Salt is good, but if the salt loses its flavor, how will you season it? Have salt in yourselves and have peace with one another.” We have had an ongoing dilemma at our house recently. I have been eliminating processed foods out of my diet, just because…
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Victory Over Slavery
Sometime ago, I felt impressed to preach a sermon out of the book of Philemon. This sermon developed out of that study. Go to Philemon: Exploration into Forgiveness and Reconciliation for more details on that study. Yet within this sermon there is no reference made to Philemon at all. Studying Philemon gave the input for this sermon for I suddenly…
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Galatians: Gospels in Conflict part 4c
A Note on Justification For us to fully understand Paul’s teaching in verses 16-20 of Galatians chapter 2 we need a better grip on his view of justification. Way to often it is described in terms of a court of law that condemns people or declares them guilty but then justifies or declares them not…
Pastor Lester Bentley 