Thursday, May 22, 2025

Eulogy for My Dearly Loved Mother

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  My eulogy at the funeral of my dearly loved mom, Betty Jo Tolliver -- May 21, 2025 These days Facebook and social media are used in all ki...
Wednesday, April 23, 2025

Repentance -- Unconditional Turning to God

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 “The whole proclamation of Jesus…is a proclamation of unconditional turning to God, of unconditional turning from all that is against God, ...

The Character of a True Theologian

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 "By a theologian, I mean one who, imbued with a substantial knowledge of divine things derived from the teaching of God himself, decla...
Wednesday, July 10, 2024

What Is Repentance?

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 "Repentance" (metanoia), acc. to the “Theological Dictionary of the New Testament” (Kittel): “[Repentance is a] radical conversio...
Monday, July 8, 2024

"Amazing Grace" (full version)

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 "Amazing Grace" (extended version) John Newton’s Full Poem (from which we get the hymn, "Amazing Grace") In evil long I...
Monday, December 25, 2023

Is Herod a Part of Your Version of the Christmas Story?

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 Is Herod a Part of Your Christmas Story? Matthew 2:3  "When King Herod heard this [about the birth of Jesus] he was disturbed, and all...
Monday, July 10, 2023

Complete Submission and Unqualified Allegiance

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 “Any offer of the Gospel that does not make plain the need for complete submission and unqualified allegiance to Jesus Christ is not biblic...

Calvin on Conversion (Wholly in Subjection to God)

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 "Only the man who has learned to put himself wholly in subjection to God is truly converted to Him."  -- John Calvin, (on 1 Thess...

Spurgeon on True Conversion (That Jesus Should Be King Over You)

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  'Note the business on hand—it is that Jesus should be King over you. ...Jesus must be King or He cannot be your Savior. Thousands of p...

Billy Graham on Necessity and Nature of Repentance

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“If repentance could be described in one word, I would use the word renounce. ‘Renounce what?’ you ask. The answer can also be given in one ...
Wednesday, April 5, 2023

Adopted by God for Fellowship with Him

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 James Stewart: "Paul perceived that a Gospel which broke the bondage of legalism, and ended the tyrant sway of principalities and powe...
Monday, March 27, 2023

God will make us into a dazzling, radiant creature

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"The command 'Be ye perfect' is not idealistic gas. Nor is it a command to do the impossible. He is going to make us into creat...
Monday, March 20, 2023

Faith Credited as Righteousness

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 “Abram believed the LORD, and he credited it to him as righteousness” (Gen 15:6). Abram’s faith is simple and profound: he believed God’s p...
Thursday, March 9, 2023

Complete Submission...Unqualified Allegiance

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 "Any offer of the Gospel that does not make plain the need for complete submission and unqualified allegiance to Jesus Christ is not b...

Take up the cross and follow Him

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 "The image of the cross signifies a total claim on the disciple's allegiance and the total relinquishment of his resources to Jesu...