On Sound Speech, Part 7

By DOlinger

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Gentleness

Be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear (1P 3.15).

Here the KJV uses the word meekness. Outside of Christian circles, influenced by the biblical language, our culture doesn’t use the word much. When we hear it, some are inclined to think of Casper Milquetoast, or a hen-pecked husband, or the guy the bullies kick sand on at the beach.

But if you’ve spent much time…

A Consideration of New Covenant Passages (Part 8)

By Paul Henebury

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Was Paul Not Actually a Minister of the New Covenant?

Due almost entirely to some dispensationalists viewing Jeremiah 31:31-34 (and Hebrews 8:8-12) as the crux interpretum of the New covenant (Part 2), we have the awkward scenario of those who exalt the grammatical-historical hermeneutic failing to use it when Paul applies the New covenant to the Church.…

Good Judgment

By SharperIron

Sermon No. 2688, intended for reading on Lord’s-Day, August 19, 1900. Delivered by C. H. Spurgeon, at the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington, on Thursday evening, July 21, 1881

“You have dealt well with Your servant, O LORD, according unto Your Word. Teach me good judgment and knowledge: for I have believed Your Commandments.” Psalm 119:65, 66.

When the Psalmist wrote these words, he was contemplating the goodness of God. In the verse preceding our text, the 64th, he sang, “The earth, O Jehovah, is full of Your mercy!” as if he could not walk…