Beacon Lights: A Series of Short SermonsBoard of Publication of the General Council of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in North America, 1899 - Church year sermons - 539 pages |
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... CHRISTIAN STADIUM . Pp . 117-125 . ( Septuagesima . ) " Know ye not that they which run in a race run all , but one receiv- eth the prize ? . . . Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown , but we an incorruptible . " - 1 COR . 9 ...
... CHRISTIAN STADIUM . Pp . 117-125 . ( Septuagesima . ) " Know ye not that they which run in a race run all , but one receiv- eth the prize ? . . . Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown , but we an incorruptible . " - 1 COR . 9 ...
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... Christian believers are liable to be dull and drowsy with reference to the things that make for salvation . Even in those apostolic times , when Jewish and heathen persecutions tended to make Christians such in very truth or not at all ...
... Christian believers are liable to be dull and drowsy with reference to the things that make for salvation . Even in those apostolic times , when Jewish and heathen persecutions tended to make Christians such in very truth or not at all ...
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... Christians . Once awake and active , they subsequently begin to consult their own ease , yield more or less to the fashion and current of things about them , leave off one and another of their Christian duties , become dilatory and self ...
... Christians . Once awake and active , they subsequently begin to consult their own ease , yield more or less to the fashion and current of things about them , leave off one and another of their Christian duties , become dilatory and self ...
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... Christians who are not only drowsy , but almost as fast asleep as those who have never been spiritually awakened at ... Christian profession that the apostle is very anxious to have it broken up . And the Church , in setting his words ...
... Christians who are not only drowsy , but almost as fast asleep as those who have never been spiritually awakened at ... Christian profession that the apostle is very anxious to have it broken up . And the Church , in setting his words ...
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... Christianity , for that is a sort of fashion that society in general approves ; but it is a very much harder thing to be a Christian in reality , and to hold out in it with growing fidelity to the end . And in view of these facts it is ...
... Christianity , for that is a sort of fashion that society in general approves ; but it is a very much harder thing to be a Christian in reality , and to hold out in it with growing fidelity to the end . And in view of these facts it is ...
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Page 465 - Give me to drink. 8 For his disciples were gone away unto the city to buy meat. 9 Then saith the woman of Samaria unto him, How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria? for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans.
Page 289 - none : neither created, nor begotten. The ,Son » is 'of the Father a,lone : not made, nor created, but be,gotten. The Holy ,Ghost » is of the Father ,and of the Son : neither made, nor created, nor begotten, but
Page 7 - For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh : how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God...
Page 252 - For as the rain cometh down, And the snow from heaven, And returneth not thither, But watereth the earth, And maketh it bring forth and bud, That it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: It shall not return unto me void, But it shall accomplish that which I please, And it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
Page 438 - I will be as the dew unto Israel : he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon. His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive tree, and his smell as Lebanon. They that dwell under his shadow shall return ; they shall revive as the corn, and grow as the vine : the scent thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon.
Page 33 - And I knew him not: but he that sent me to baptize with water, the same said unto me, Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he which baptizeth with the Holy Ghost. And I saw, and bare record that this is the Son of God.
Page 352 - OH THAT I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me; When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness...
Page 6 - Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem, saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him.
Page 12 - AND he said unto them, Verily I say unto you, that there be some of them that stand here which shall not taste of death, till they have seen the kingdom of God come with power.
Page 6 - Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, the brother of James, and Joses, and of Juda, and Simon? and are not his sisters here with us?