Dangers of Imagination

A fertile spiritual imagination is just as good at growing weeds as a crop.

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Marriage and Natural Reason

When that wise harlot, natural reason, looks at married life, she turns up her nose and says, "Ah, should I rock the baby, wash the diapers, make ...

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The Need for Common Sense

Every year my alma mater, Princeton Seminary, honors somebody from a previous class. Four or five years ago, they honored a pastor from Seoul, Korea, ...

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A Word Fitly Spoken

I spoke

Words fell

Aimlessly on ears.

Later

One said,

"Your word--

It helped

That Day."

I turned

Wondering--

Forgot I said

That word.

Let me speak

Those ...

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Knowledge Comes from Obedience

Never try to explain God until you have obeyed Him. The only bit of God we understand is the bit we have obeyed.

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Accept Wise Counsel

I have heard often that it is safer to accept counsel than to give it. It can even happen that each one's opinion is good, but to be unwilling to ...

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Ministry in Chapters

Ministry is done in chapters, and wise is the minister who knows his page number.

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Why We Need Community

At a recent meeting, our leader suggested, "None of us is as smart as all of us." Words to live by, I think.

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Bolted to the Foundation

Let me tell you something about earthquakes. When the Coalinga quake occurred a couple of years ago, a lot of things were discovered. Houses that were ...

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God Wants No Dwarfs

It appears that God has deliberately left us in a quandary about many things. Why did He not summarize all the rules in one book, and all the basic doctrines ...

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