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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... natural course of things the chances are largely against us . We were all born with a tainted nature , biased toward evil as sparks fly upward , and with every constitutional tendency that makes for our utter ruin , if not arrested by ...
... natural course of things the chances are largely against us . We were all born with a tainted nature , biased toward evil as sparks fly upward , and with every constitutional tendency that makes for our utter ruin , if not arrested by ...
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... nature is changed , and that the world of to - day is animated by a different spirit ; but the offence of the cross has not ceased . Let the test be applied , and the carnal mind will be found , as always , at enmity with God . It spat ...
... nature is changed , and that the world of to - day is animated by a different spirit ; but the offence of the cross has not ceased . Let the test be applied , and the carnal mind will be found , as always , at enmity with God . It spat ...
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... nature , and claim that , " since the fathers fell asleep , all things continue as from the beginning of the creation . " The very Church itself may become oblivious to the foreshowings of the prophetic word . But the Lord is not slack ...
... nature , and claim that , " since the fathers fell asleep , all things continue as from the beginning of the creation . " The very Church itself may become oblivious to the foreshowings of the prophetic word . But the Lord is not slack ...
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... natural enjoyments that give zest to life . The Gospel does , indeed , require some things which carnal nature does not fancy . Nor is any one . more positive than this same apostle in demanding self - denial , the giving up of sin ...
... natural enjoyments that give zest to life . The Gospel does , indeed , require some things which carnal nature does not fancy . Nor is any one . more positive than this same apostle in demanding self - denial , the giving up of sin ...
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... nature in and around us ! What distresses , what alarms , what fearful apprehensions , has it brought upon the human conscience , wherever awake to the real facts ! Why it has been permitted in the realm of good Almightiness , is one of ...
... nature in and around us ! What distresses , what alarms , what fearful apprehensions , has it brought upon the human conscience , wherever awake to the real facts ! Why it has been permitted in the realm of good Almightiness , is one of ...
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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?