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1. Mother Knows Best (Isaiah 57:14-21)
(sermons/2012 Sermons)

... spirit.  We all should have mothers in the faith, sometime biological mothers but always Spiritual mothers.  And we should rise up and call them blessed.  But especially today we should ...

2. Flavel's Exposition Quote Q&A 92
(reading report/Quotes)

... of the Faith, that he had yet being uncircumcised, &c. 1 Cor 11:26 For as often as ye eat this Bread, and drink this Cup, ye do shew the Lord's Death till he come.  ...

3. Flavel's Exposition Quote Q&A 91
(reading report/Quotes)

Of Sacraments as Means of Salvation How doth the Word and Sacraments differ as Means of Salvation? A. The Word is appointed to be the first Means of begetting Faith; 1 Cor 3:5 Who then is Paul? or who ...

4. Introduction to Samuel
(OT Prophets Commentary/Samuel Commentary)

... And like those matriarchs, she represents Israel – a favored nation that is strangely barren or fruitless.  Or worse yet, those who are persecuting the faithful (like how Peninnah is persecuting Hannah) ...

5. Flavel's Exposition Quote Q&A 90
(reading report/Quotes)

Of the Manner of Hearing Q.25 How is Faith and Love evidenced to the Word after hearing it?  A. By preserving it carefully in our Hearts and Memories, Psalm 119:11 Thy Word have I hid in my Heart that ...

6. Flavel's Exposition Quote Q&A 89
(reading report/Quotes)

Of the Word read and heard That the Enjoyments of the Scripture, and an able faithful Ministry to expound and apply them, is a special Mercy to any People, Psalm 147:19-20 He sheweth his Word unto Jacob, ...

7. The Paganization of Israel (Judges 17-21)
(teaching/Copy of Judges Commentary)

... story also has a tie to Bethlehem in Judah – the Levite took to himself a concubine from Bethlehem in Judah.  And the concubine was unfaithful to him (or perhaps, was angry with him) and went back to her ...

8. The Paganization of Israel (Judges 17-21)
(OT Prophets Commentary/Judges Commentary)

... story also has a tie to Bethlehem in Judah – the Levite took to himself a concubine from Bethlehem in Judah.  And the concubine was unfaithful to him (or perhaps, was angry with him) and went back to her ...

9. Flavel's Exposition Quote Q&A 86
(reading report/Quotes)

Of Saving Faith How doth the Spirit of God ordinarily produce Faith?  A. By the preaching of the Word he ordinarily begets it, Rom 10:17 -- Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God ; though ...

10. The Church's Population Explosion (Isaiah 49:14-50:3)
(sermons/2012 Sermons)

... couple hundred years after the death of Christ  our faith had spread even to England.  Even we are part of the church's population explosion.  Just because the church has been in decline in the West does ...

11. Gideon and Abimelech
(teaching/Copy of Judges Commentary)

... misses the whole point of this story.  Gideon should not have needed these signs and should not have needed to test God.  This is a display of his lack of faith and lack of knowledge of God's word.  His ...

12. Gideon and Abimelech
(OT Prophets Commentary/Judges Commentary)

... misses the whole point of this story.  Gideon should not have needed these signs and should not have needed to test God.  This is a display of his lack of faith and lack of knowledge of God's word.  His ...

13. Flavel's Exposition Quote Q&A 85
(reading report/Quotes)

Of what God requires of us   Are these things (faith, repentance, diligent striving in the use of all God's appointed Means) in Man's Power to perform that God requires of him?  A. Though they are ...

14. The Best Judges Cycle is the Least Exciting
(teaching/Copy of Judges Commentary)

... spy who had sided with Joshua against the ten faithless spies.  We pick up this cycle with the name of the judge and quote through the notice of his death:   Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger ...

15. The Best Judges Cycle is the Least Exciting
(OT Prophets Commentary/Judges Commentary)

... spy who had sided with Joshua against the ten faithless spies.  We pick up this cycle with the name of the judge and quote through the notice of his death:   Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger ...

16. Fear God and Keep His Commandments: Canonical Context
(teaching/Canon Commentary)

... here only appears this one time in the book but this is a clear reference to Torah keeping.  He says, "For the frame narrator, to be a faithful Israelite likewise [i.e. like in other Second Temple works ...

17. Go out from Babylon (Isaiah 48)
(sermons/2012 Sermons)

... -- we are to flee from the world and from sin.  We are to flee from youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace (as Paul told Timothy, 2 Tim 2:22).  We are to flee from sexual immorality ...

18. Herman Bavinck's Our Reasonable Faith
(reading report/Recommendations)

Bavinck, Herman.  Our Reasonable Faith: A Survey of Christian Doctrine.  Trans. Henry Zylstra.  Wm. B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 1956. This is one volume and much more accessible to the lay reader than his ...

19. Paul David Tripp's Age of Opportunity
(reading report/Recommendations)

... be life-changing for anyone of any age. It is often true that when we see how our faith makes a very practical difference in a situation others face that it helps us to apply the same to our own. This ...

20. It's a New Day, a New Light (Isaiah 42:10-43:7)
(sermons/2012 Sermons)

... keeping us from God have been removed through Jesus' work, we can see the invisible realm by faith in Jesus who has enlightened us.  God was willing to pay any price, even the price of the blood of His ...