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Distributing Sanitary Buckets in Liberia (an update)

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For the last two weeks our church has been helping Isaac in his work distributing sanitary buckets. Yesterday, Isaac sent his thanks along with some pictures of the two communities along Marshall Highway that he was able to reach. Marshall Highway is a major dirt road that connects several villages including Ben Town. The Cross Way training center, water well, and school are all off this road.

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Each of the buckets shown is filled with medicine and medical supplies used to disinfect items and to protect the people from the Ebola virus. Continue reading →

Sinners in the Hand of an Angry God (Seuss)

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What if Jonathan Edwards memorable sermon “Sinners in the Hand of an Angry God” was written in the style of Dr. Seuss’ The Cat in the Hat? It might go something like this:

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We sat there in church.
We listened so well.
The preacher stepped up
to tell us about hell.

With tales of horror,
that sound like Stephen King,
We sat on the seat edge
with sweat that did cling.

The preacher he taught,
about our feet sliding.
Explaining the text,
no truth was he hiding.

To walk in a place
so slippery and wet.
A most foolish idea
you are sure to regret.

You’ll fall down
down
down
down
into a wide gaping pit.
And you will not like it.
Not one little bit. Continue reading →

Reconciling the World to Himself

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in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting people’s trespasses against them (2 Cor 5:19 NET)

Mosaic of Crucifixion at Kykkos Monastery Christianity rests on the essential truth that Jesus came, suffered, died, was buried, and rose on the third day.  But why did Jesus have to die on the cross? Richard Watson (1781-1833) tackles that question in chapter 20 of the 2nd Volume of his Theological Institutes.

The first thing which strikes every attentive, and, indeed, every cursory reader of the New Testament, must be, that the pardon of our sin, and our entire salvation, is ascribed to the death of Christ. … our salvation is expressly and emphatically connected with that event. … Continue reading →