I pity the person who never thinks about Heaven. I use that word in its broadest and most familiar sense: the future home of all true Christians, after the dead have been raised and this present world has passed away. A heart that never thinks of that home must be cold and unfeeling; a mind […]
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Matthew 18:3, “Truly, I say unto you, except you be converted, and become as little children, you shall not enter into the kingdom of Heaven.” I suppose I may take it for granted that all of you, among whom I am now about to preach the kingdom of God, are fully convinced that it is
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Ask Jesus into Your Heart Nothing matters more than getting the gospel right. We can be confused about many things in the Christian life and still recover from them. But confusion about how somebody can have peace with God is different. The consequences are eternal. So, if we are going to examine the language Christians
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After months of researching online social platforms and observing human communication in chat windows, words are expressed 24/7 by people throughout the world and are eternally recycled by a computer algorithm. The conclusion of my interpersonal communication study led me to one universal repeated basic human need, expressed verbally and nonverbally (emoji): the need to
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Have you ever found yourself nodding in agreement with something said in church without really understanding what the person was talking about? What about repeating something simply because you have heard other Christians say it? Perhaps it was a phrase you began to hear regularly. Week after week, it became more familiar. Then, almost without
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