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Needed: Reformation – Chapter 21 – The End

The Word of God – Part 6   2 Timothy 2:15 “Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a workman who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth.”   Our attitude toward Scripture depends upon whether we really believe that Scripture is inspired. If… Read more »

Needed: Reformation – Chapter 20

The Word of God – Part 5   Psalms 119:98-100 “Your commands make me wiser than my enemies, for they are ever with me. I have more insight than all my teachers, for I meditate on your statutes. I have more understanding than the elders, for I obey your precepts.”   We read that when the… Read more »

Needed: Reformation – Chapter 19

The Word of God – Part 4   2 Timothy 2:16-17 “All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.”   In every society we have what I call the ‘opinion makers.’ These are people… Read more »

Needed: Reformation – Chapter 18

 Word of God – Part 3   Psalms 119:98-100 “Your commands make me wiser than my enemies, for they are ever with me. I have more insight than all my teachers, for I meditate on your statutes. I have more understanding than the elders, for I obey your precepts.”   When we look back into… Read more »

Needed: Reformation – Chapter 17

Word of God – Part 2   Psalms119:11 “I have hidden your word in my heart that I might not sin against you.”   When John the Baptist, forerunner of the Lord, appeared on the scene he had some choice words to say to the religious leaders of his day.   Matthew 3:7-10 “But when… Read more »

Needed: Reformation – Chapter 16

The Word of God – Part 1   Psalms 119:105 “Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light for my path.”   Isaiah 40:8 “The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God stands forever.”   When we pray for reformation we are praying for His people to… Read more »

Needed: Reformation – Chapter 15

Who is Man? Part 6 Post-modernism and Culture  Worldview and the Gospel   1 Corinthians 15:4-8 “…that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, and that he appeared to Peter, and then to the Twelve. After that, he appeared to more than five hundred of the brothers… Read more »

Needed: Reformation – Chapter 14

Who is Man? Part 5   If paradise has been lost it can be regained. Man can be regenerated. The image that we had can be renewed. This is one of the great truths in the Word of God. Instead of the devil’s image of pride, malice and envy – the righteousness and goodness of… Read more »

Needed: Reformation – Chapter 13

Who Is Man? Part 4   When we think of man we cannot forget what evolution has done. However, evolution did not start with Darwin, but with philosophers known as “Pre-Socratics,” around sixth to mid-fifth century B.C. These were philosophers bouncing ideas back and forth before the coming of Socrates. They were not interested in… Read more »

Needed: Reformation – Chapter 12

 WHO IS MAN? Part 3   Genesis 2:17 “…but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you will surely die.”     In our study of man it is important to understand what is commonly known as the “fall of man.” Scripture… Read more »