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Romans 8: Distractions

  “For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit.  For to set the mind on the flesh is death,…

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The Ten Words: The Tenth

The Law, though written on tablets of stone, is still able to condemningly penetrate into the depths of our hearts, and the last Commandment leaves us all with our “mouths stopped”, as Paul argues (Romans 3:19), that in our own…

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The Ten Words: The Ninth

At face value, the 9th commandment could be read as merely a prohibition against committing perjury or lying under oath. However, this commandment encompasses so much more. According to both the Westminster Shorter and the Baptist catechisms, “The ninth commandment requires…

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Pride: A Christian Response

In 2011, then 63-year-old Italian History Professor Roberto De Mattei made the following statement about the decline of Rome: “The collapse of the Roman Empire and the arrival of the Barbarians was due to the spread of homosexuality… The Roman…

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Romans 8: The Quandary

“There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.  For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death.  For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not…

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The Ten Words: the Eighth

The fifth through tenth of God’s Ten Commandments focus on preserving and protecting persons.  Here, the eighth hones in on safeguarding and maintaining a person’s possessions. In the reiteration of the Decalogue for the second generation of the covenant about…