March 2017 | thebereancall.org

March 2017

Yes, love is commanded . True love begins in the will, not in the emotions. That love is commanded seems incomprehensible even to many Christians. The world has conditioned us to believe that one “falls in love and that love is a romantic attraction between the sexes. “Boy meets girl...Read more
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One of the most difficult things that [our ministry] is doing these days is speaking of what is happening overseas in various missionary ‘outreaches’. There will always be ‘less than ideal’ situations and occasionally an exception to overall biblical principles will be made. In Numbers 22, we see God using...Read more
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The Bible is filled with injunctions to love God, with explanations of why we ought to and of the benefits to be derived thereby. Here are a few examples. Look up others and meditate upon them: “And now Israel , what doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but...Read more
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A woman standing in line outside the theater to see The Shack movie was eager to talk with me about Paul Young’s best-selling book. She said she “loved” The Shack and couldn’t understand why it had so many critics on the Internet. She was especially perplexed by the number of...Read more
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God uses men who are weak and feeble enough to lean on him. — Hudson Taylor, missionary to ChinaRead more
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There is a growing emphasis today upon world evangelism , and surely that is needful and commendable. We ought to obey the Great Commission given to us by Christ. There is also an awakening social con science , a concern to demonstrate practical Christianity in caring for those around us,...Read more
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The ancient palace of biblical King Sennacherib, buried for thousands of years beneath the tomb of the prophet Jonah in the city of Nineveh, has been discovered by archaeologists in Iraq who are surveying the destruction left behind by the Islamic State. "I can only imagine how much Daesh discovered...Read more
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In 1,900 years, no Christian author or preacher had ever discovered a single verse in the Bible that taught self-love and self-esteem. Calvin, Luther, Wesley, Spurgeon, Moody, and others found just the opposite: the necessity to deny self and to esteem others better than ourselves ( Philippians:2:3 Let nothing be...Read more
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The church is busy with conferences, conventions, seminars, and workshops, where numerous subjects from healing to holiness, from prosperity to prophecy, from miracles to marriage counseling, are taught and discussed. Yet the subject of loving God is too often conspicuous by its absence. Instead, there is much emphasis upon loving...Read more
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