August 1999

Question: In a recent Focus on the Family issue the author of an article stated, “My mentor always told me not to pray for God to bless what I was doing, but to do what God blessed....I don’t quite get the point. Can you help me?

August 1, 1999

Question: In a recent Focus on the Family issue the author of an article stated, “My mentor always told me not to pray for God to bless what I was doing, but to do what God blessed....When Samuel was looking for a king, he did not consider David, the youngest...Read more

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Quotable

August 1, 1999

The great defect of modern Christianity is that there is so little affection for Christ. Many hear what is called a clear gospel, and trusting the Person and work of Christ they get the assurance of the Scriptures that they will never perish, and this seems to satisfy them and...Read more

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Love, Justice, and Truth

August 1, 1999

It is grievous to someone who loves another when the loved one spurns, ignores or responds coldly to the love offered. How God must lament in His love for the world which continues to reject Him, a world that He "so loved...that he gave his only begotten Son;...that the world...Read more

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