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I was reading through the first few verses of Titus in Greek today when I noticed this.
Titus 1:2-3a
…ἐλπίδι ζωης  αἰωνίου ἣν ἐπηγγείλατο ὁ ἀψευδὴς  θεὸς πρὸ χρόνων αἰωνίων ἐφανέρωσεν δὲ καιροις ἰδίοις τὸν λόγον αὐτου ἐν κηρύγματι ὃ ἐπιστεύθην ἐγὼ κατ’ ἐπιταγὴν του σωτηρος ἡμων θεου…
My Translation
…hope of eternal life, which the lie-less God promised [...]

My wife had exploratory surgery on Friday morning to determine whether or not she has endometriosis.  The symptom: a considerable amount of consistent pain.  When she woke up from the anesthesia after surgery, she heard the diagnosis, or lack thereof.  No endometriosis, and a clean bill of health.  Reason to rejoice?  Absolutely.  Yet, in another [...]

Take the time to think through this.  You won’t regret it.
You are made of cells.  I am made of cells.  My cells are built on molecules.  My molecules make use of atoms.  My atoms are mostly space, but the bits that aren’t are called quarks…
Here is the moment of my amaze.  The olive that I [...]

In some sense the most benevolent generous person in the world, seeks his own happiness in doing good to others; because he places his happiness in their good. His mind is so enlarged as to take them, as it were, into himself. Thus when they are happy he feels it, he partakes with them, and [...]

John Piper’s recent sermon at Mars Hill in Seattle for Resurgence will make you wrestle, think, and hopefully worship. I highly recommend that you listen to it. Here are some of the self-examining questions that are posed in this sermon:

Is my discovery that God made me in his image and undertaken extraordinary lengths [...]

What does the bible say about the eternal destiny of those who never have an opportunity to hear the gospel?  Recent confusion over how to answer this question has effectively decentralized missions and evangelism from the evangelical church.  Pre-order Piper’s newest book, Jesus: the only way to God – Must you hear the gospel to [...]

Ezekiel 11:17-21
Therefore say, Thus says the Lord GOD: I will gather you from the peoples and assemble you out of the countries where you have been scattered and I will give you the land of Israel.’ And when they come there, they will remove from it all its detestable things and all its abominations.  [...]

The reason why almost all men, and those that seem to be very miserable, love life: because they cannot bear to lose the sight of such a beautiful and lovely world – the ideas, that every moment whilst we live have a beauty that we take not distinct notice of, but bring a pleasure that, [...]

every particle of spray that dashes against the steamboat has its orbit as well as the sun in the heavens-that the chaff from the hand of the winnower is steered as the stars in their courses.  The creeping of an aphis over the rosebud is as fully ordained as the tumbling of an avalanche.  He [...]