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Know Your Enemy
Knowledge of what sin is in inverse ratio to its presence; only as sin goes do you realize what it is; when it is present you do not realize what it is ...
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Wealth Weats Down Morality
Wealth takes away the sharp edges of our moral sensitivities and allows a comfortable confusion about sin and virtue.
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Rot Begets Rot
I have no potency to influence for good in the "things that are touched" [(Haggai 2:12-14)], but am capable of influencing for evil. ... This ...
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Living As We Preach
Take heed, therefore, to yourselves first, that you be that which you persuade your hearers to be, and believe that which you persuade them to believe. ...
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Righteousness Exalts a Nation
Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just.
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Holiness: Down and Dirty
The real mark of spiritual triumph--the possession of that more lovely, more abundant life which we discern in moments of deep prayer--is not an abstraction ...
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Blessing a Persecutor
Facing arrest as an Anabaptist, Dirck Willems fled for his life across a frozen lake. When his pursuer broke through the ice, Willems gave up his chance ...
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Punished for Righteousness
A 16th century man who did not drink to excess, curse, or abuse his workmen or family could be suspected of being an Anabaptist and thus persecuted.
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Contrasting Law and Gospel
What the law tried to do by a restraining power from without, the gospel does by an inspiring power from within.
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The Gift of a Relationship
In Jesus' righteousness the unrighteous are granted, as a gift, relationship with God: a free gift. Mercy took a human face.
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