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Brief Descriptions of Important People in the Old Testament
Aaron brother and spokesman for Moses
Abel Second son of Adam and Eve, murdered by his brother
Abraham "father of a multitude”; first patriarch
Absalom David's son who attempted to usurp the throne
Ahab Wicked king of Israel, husband of Jezebel
Amos Prophesied of "famine of the word”
Baal Canaanite god, or "lord”
Bathsheba Woman with whom David committed adultery
Belshazzar Last king of Ba...  |
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The Normal Christian Life (3)
Our old history ends with the Cross ; our new history begins with the resurrection. " If any man is in Christ, he is a new creature: the old things are passed away; behold they are become new " (2 Cor. 5. 17). The Cross terminates the first creation, and out of death there is brought a new creation in Christ, the... |
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Day By Day With John Calvin
Description
Start your day with the truths that have shaped lives for centuries. Along with Martin Luther, John Calvin, the great scholar and Christian leader, was one of the central figures in the Protestant Reformation. A year's worth of daily devotional readings taken from Calvin's commentaries and from Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion, Of Prayer, and On the Christian Life have been... |
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Where Is God When It Hurts?
We gather here still trying to make sense of what happened in Blacksburg, still trying to process the unprocessable. We come together in this place, as a Christian community, partly because we know of no better place to bring our questions and our grief and partly because we don't know where else to turn. As the apostle Peter once said to Jesus, at a moment of confusion and doubt, "Lord, to whom else can we go?"
In considering how... |
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