February 2011
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The First Obstacle in Working with Young People is...
And one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him. “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself (Matthew 22:35-39).
The more I work with young...
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7 Things I’m Learning About Evangelism
Last week, The Gospel Coalition published several articles and pointed to dozens of resources on evangelism. To prepare for these articles, I read most or all of six books on evangelism, dozens of articles, and listened to I don’t how many sermons and talks in a matter of a few weeks. I don’t mean to say that this has some how made me an expert on evangelism. Many of you, I’m sure, have done...
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An Honest Heart
Blessed is the man against whom the Lord counts no iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no deceit. Psalm 32:2
We cannot deceive God. Twice in the Acts God is called “the Heartknower” (Acts 1:24; 15:8). But we can deceive ourselves. Here are four differences between deceit and honesty in our hearts.
One, a deceitful heart doesn’t know its sin because it doesn’t want to know. But an...
January 2011
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“What is true of Christ is more important to me than what is true of me”
– Yours Truly
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Jaye Thomas & Cory Asbury - Shekinah (Live)...
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“Every one of you who confesses Jesus as Lord of the universe signs up for...”
– John Piper
Blessings,
David Jee [Eternity Bible College]
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Great Changes Underway in Tunisia
Many of you have undoubtedly heard about the political changes taking place in Tunisia this past week. Through our international outreach initiatives the Lord has brought into our network many good friends, including a family and ministry working to spread the gospel in this North African country. We were relieved to receive this report from them and continue to be amazed at how the Lord is...
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“To keep me from becoming conceited because of these surpassingly great...”
– Paul Tripp
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The Lord’s Prayer (Extended with Scriptures)
One of my favorite ways to pray the Lord’s Prayer is to fill each line with other related Scriptures. Pray with me:
Our Father in heaven
Everlasting Father of the fatherless, Heaven is Your throne and the earth is Your footstool.
The heavens declare Your glory, and the sky above proclaims Your handiwork.
O Father in Heaven…
Hallowed be Your Name
From the rising of the sun to its...
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Abolitionist Faith Community E-blast January 18,...
April 22/23, 2011
Visit the newly revamped website and register today.
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“Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rights of all who are destitute. Speak up and judge fairly; defend the rights of the poor...
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40 Days of Water Coming Up and Stories from Zambia
January 2011 Dear Friends, This past year, you helped us provide safe water for over 85,000 friends in Africa and over 3,000 gained access to health care. During the Matching Campaign, $150,000 was raised in just 30 days thanks to your donations and pledges for communities in Uganda and Rwanda! The Lemon:Aid campaign brought hundreds of advocates together across the country over ...
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Time to ROCK
Coming to a town near you…
The NOT FOR SALE Freedom Tour Featuring:
The Museum & Rapture Ruckus
We’re bringing the movement to your backyard with Top 5 hit group The Museum and New Zealand music sensation Rapture Ruckus. Join us for a night of rock and engagement in the modern Abolitionist movement. Bring your friends and family for an unforgettable event as we partner...
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Is Sanctification God's Effort or Our Effort?
Philippians 2:12-13—
Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, so now, not only as in my presence but much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure.
Jonathan Edwards writes,
In efficacious grace we are not merely passive, nor yet does God do some and we do the rest....
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WatchDoes God Get Disappointed in Believers When We Disobey?
Blessings,
David Jee [Eternity Bible College]
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“The closer you come to God the more of the world you must leave behind. The two...”
– Paul Washer
Blessings,
David Jee [Eternity Bible College]
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Saying What You Believe Is Clearer Than Saying...
We are Christians. Radical, full-blooded, Bible-saturated, Christ-exalting, God-centered, mission-advancing, soul-winning, church-loving, holiness-pursing, sovereignty-savoring, grace-besotted, broken-hearted, happy followers of the omnipotent, crucified Christ. At least that’s our imperfect commitment.
In other words, we are Calvinists. But that label is not nearly as useful as telling...
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“Unbelief says: Some other time, but not now; some other place, but not here;...”
– A. W. Tozer
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Fifteen Books On “The Gospel For Christians”
As I’ve said before, I once assumed (along with the vast majority of professing Christians) that the gospel was simply what non-Christians must believe in order to be saved, while afterward we advance to deeper theological waters. But I’ve come to realize that once God rescues sinners, his plan isn’t to steer them beyond the gospel, but to move them more deeply into it. The gospel, in...
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Kiss slave-made chocolate goodbye!
Sweet Ways to Take Action this Valentine’s Day Valentine’s Day may appear all hearts and roses, but the reality is that much of the chocolate treats we buy, like Hershey’s Kisses, are too often tainted by forced, trafficked, and child labor.
It’s time to give our love to some better chocolate!
Tell Hershey to Have a Heart: Send Hershey CEO David West a Special...
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Calling a Generation to Be Fascinated with Jesus
International House of Prayer, 3535 E. Red Bridge Road, Kansas City, MO 64137
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Only 2 Months until Freedom Sunday!!
FREEDOM SUNDAY 2011 On March 13, 2011, join thousands of faith communities from across the globe — India, Thailand, Mexico, Togo, the US, Bermuda, Canada, Australia, South Africa — for the international day of declaring freedom for the captives.
FREEDOM SUNDAY will be a global event to equip and empower the international church to turn awareness into smart activism, and become an...
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WatchRegister now for the 2011 Desiring God Conference for Pastors.
Why Piper Invited Beeke, Chan, Miller, and Rankin
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Floods around the World
51 dead from flooding in the Philippines; 1.6 million affected
(CNN) — Some 51 people are dead in the Philippines after weeks of intense rain caused severe flooding across the Asian nation, the country’s national disaster agency said early Monday.
Rains continued to linger over much of the the island of Luzon, with land around the Visayan Sea and the eastern island of Mindanao...
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“There is nothing lovely or desirable in man; his heart is a sink of pollution,...”
– George Whitefield
Blessings,
David Jee [Eternity Bible College]
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Double Victory through Love and Suffering
From MLK’s sermon “Loving Your Enemies,” delivered on November 17, 1957, at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama:
To our most bitter opponents we say:
“We shall match your capacity to inflict suffering by our capacity to endure suffering.
We shall meet your physical force with soul force.
Do to us what you will, and we shall continue to love you.
We cannot in all good...
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Missionary One of Thousands Who Lost Homes as...
Gospel for Asia-supported missionary Anthony lost his home and everything in it as floodwaters washed through his village this week in Sri Lanka.
Anthony, who also serves as a pastor in the Batticaloa district, took refuge with relatives. Thankfully, he, his wife and children all escaped injury as the house collapsed due to the flood waters, but they did lose all of their possessions.
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“Unless we give a real content to the wrath of God, unless we hold that men...”
– Leon Morris
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How the Gospel Can Transform a Marriage
Gary and Betsy Ricuchi, Love That Lasts: When Marriage Meets Grace (Crossway, 2006), pp. 22-23:
Because of the gospel, Christians have become new creations (2 Corinthians 5:17). Therefore, in our marriage, our past does not define us, confine us, or determine our future.
Because of the gospel, we are forgiven (Ephesians 1:7). Therefore we can live free of all guilt and condemnation for every...
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One Year Later: God's Word and Work in Haiti
A year ago today a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck the small Caribbean nation of Haiti, killing an estimated 230,000 people, injuring 300,000 more, and leaving roughly 1,000,000 people homeless. In a matter of hours, all eyes were on this tiny country, and thousands of organizations went into action to offer aid to its people.
In a spirit of gratitude to God for being gracious to work...
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WatchJohn Piper’s Invitation: “Brothers, Come Pray with Us”
Speakers include: Joel Beeke, Francis Chan, Paul Miller, Jerry Rankin, and John Piper
Register for the Pre-conference seminar with Mark Dever: “Healthy Churches—Healthy Leaders: Mark Dever on Church Practice and Leadership”
Purchase books by the conference speakers
Registration deadline—January 28 is the last...
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A Distinguishing Mark
“Why are we so precise as to our food, our clothes, our money-matters, and why does this accuracy displease us in divine literature alone? He crawls along the ground, they say, he wearies himself out with words and syllables! Why do we slight any word of Him whom we venerate and worship under the name of ‘the Word’?”
Erasmus, quoted in David Daiches, The King James Version of the...
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“Belief in Jesus Christ is total identity with Him. There is no such thing as...”
– - John MacArthur
Blessings,
David Jee [Eternity Bible College]
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Over 70 Christians Arrested in Iran
Over the past several years God has stirred my heart with a deep love for and desire to intercede for the people of Iran. So I was very saddened to receive the news that 70 Christians in Iran were arrested by the authorities over Christmas. Please read this and share it with others who will pray. Elam Ministries shares the following:
Javad & Anahita Zare - “In the early morning...
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What's the Message of the Bible in One Sentence?
In fact, it really is impossible to answer my question. How could you ask, for instance, what the Lord of the Rings is about in a single sentence? It can’t be done. You must simply enter in and get swept up in the story. We can all resonate, therefore, with Hugenberger’s valid response. Yet while we can agree to eschew simplistic reductionisms, this need not include an...
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One Week Only: 75% New Paul Tripp DVD Set on...
This five-hour seminar on parenting by Paul Tripp is on 3 DVDs and normally retails for $59.95.
But for one week only they are selling them at 75% off, or $14.99 (sale ends Tuesday, January 18, at 11:59 PM EST).
[There’s a glitch at the site, not showing the discount, but I’m told it will apply will you purchase and checkout.]
You can see from the feedback below how enthusiastic...
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Impudent Prayer
“I tell you, though he will not get up and give him anything because he is his friend, yet because of his impudence he will rise and give him whatever he needs.” Luke 11:8
“Impudence”
The word is anaideia. That’s the negative prefix an + aideia (“shame, respect, modesty”). Souter glosses it as “shameless persistence (e.g. in greed).” The ESV translates it “impudence.” More ...
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“The cross is not only a past place of objective substitution; it is a present...”
– John Piper
Blessings,
David Jee [Eternity Bible College]
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Swoope - Actions Speak Louder (Ft. Tedashii,...
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6 Thoughts and ways that you can pray for the...
Here is a snippet from CNN on what is going to happen tomorrow (Sunday, January 9, 2011):
Several million people will decide in the next week or so whether to give birth to the world’s newest nation.
They will cast ballots on whether to declare independence at polling stations sprinkled across the vast, flat plains of Southern Sudan, an East African landscape long riven by chaos.
War...
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WatchIf you go to iTunes and download the song “Actions Speak Louder Than Words” ($.99), 100% of the proceeds go to His Voice Global to build a fourth orphanage in Southern Sudan. Sudan is a war-torn country with over 2 million dead, and scores of orphans. Once build, the orphanage will be self-sustained by HVG’s trucking company there.
The song is by Swoope, ft. Lecrae, Tedashii, and Jai. Here’s a...
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How Can You Live a Gospel-Centered Life?
Let Paul’s perspective of gospel-in-community instruct you through his letter to the Philippians:
You can partner with others in the gospel (Phil. 1:5).
You can defend the gospel (Phil. 1:7, 16).
You can confirm the gospel (Phil. 1:7).
You can help to advance the gospel (Phil. 1:12).
You can live a life worthy of the gospel (Phil. 1:27).
You can strive side by side with others for the faith...
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Thoughts On The Gospel
The gospel is God the Father’s irrepressible commitment to redeem his pan-national, trans-generational family, and restore his broken creation through the person and work of Jesus and the power and presence of his Holy Spirit
The gospel is the glory-story of how God the Father is redeeming a people from every single race, tribe, tongue and people group for a life of worship service in...
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“The sin of judgmentalism is one of the most subtle of our “respectable” sins...”
– Jerry Bridges, from his book Respectable Sins:
Blessings,
David Jee [Eternity Bible College]
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