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Reciprocal Helpfulness

Over the last couple of weeks I've been doing some reading on various matters related to the church. In the midst of that reading, I came across an article entitled "Duties of Church Members," by John Angell James. James was the Pastor of Carrs Lane Church in Birmingham, England for 54 years. He began at Carrs Lane as the pastor when he was only 20 and remained there until...

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The State of the Church

This past Tuesday, I unintentionally delivered something of a state of the church address in the middle of the Men's Bible Study. We took the entire evening to talk about Acts 9:31 where Luke tells us, So the church throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria had peace and was being built up. And walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, it m...

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Praying from the Word

Being in the midst of a sermon series in the book of James has had me reading a lot of Proverbs. As you may know, James is sometimes called the "Proverbs of the New Testament." There is some truth in that. James has much to say that is wise and for that matter he has much to say about wisdom. Also like Proverbs, James' letter has also provided many ideas and practical sugg...

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