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How shall we escape if we ignore such a great salvation? ~ Hebrews 2:3a

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God makes sure that we cannot ignore it easily. Even though we live in the greatest age of diversions (e.g., media, entertainment, mobility, etc.), His salvation message slips through the cracks, wherever believers dwell. If we escape the church, He sends an individual believer to us. If we escape the individual believer, He sends our way something in print. If we escape the Gospel print, He sends our way something that… Continue

For the Lord's portion is His people, Jacob His allotted inheritance. In a desert land He found him, in a barren and howling waste. He shielded him and cared for him; He guarded him as the apple of His eye, like an eagle that stirs up its nest and hovers over its young, that spreads its wings to catch them and carries them on its pinions. ~ Deuteronomy 32:9-11

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It's the most touching, humbling truth: God sees US as His portion, His inheritance (Ephesians 1:18). Is this passage not one of the… Continue

Sow righteousness, reap love. It's time to till the ready earth, it's time to dig in with God, until he arrives with righteousness ripe for harvest. Hosea 10:12 (The Message)

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When I was working on my graduate degree, my Shakespeare teacher told the class a story. He suspected that the students in one class were not "digging in" either to his instruction or to the texts. He experimented. On the final, he offered a bonus question. He gave two quotes and asked which one was actually from Shake… Continue

For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God. ~ 1 Peter 1:23

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Humans are organic in that they live and develop, but also tend toward degeneration and death. (This is the result of sin. Not only has it led to the transiency of mankind [Romans 6:23], but also it has led to the "curse" on the earth and all living things. [See Genesis 3] ) As the Old Testament writers like to put it, man goes "the way of all the earth" (e.… Continue

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! ~ 2 Corinthians 5:17

But in keeping with His promise we are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth, the home of righteousness. ~ 2 Peter 3:13

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Oldcastle’s webs snare new preys
As Newmen abandon old halls.
Newmen gallop toward new ways,
Away from Oldmen's siren calls.


Oldshadows seem dark in new ways;
Newmen chase sunward all nightfalls,
Slaying old evil that decays,
'Til Newday lights New… Continue