The Half-Baked Pancake

Posted 12/31/15 by Donald Barnhouse

I have a venerable friend who has a sweet spirit that reflects long living with the Saviour. While he was staying in a large hotel in the South, he spoke to his waitress about her soul and she began to justify herself before him. She told him about her character, how hard she worked, and how she took care of an aged mother. Day after day as she waited on him, three meals a day, she would tell him more about her good deeds. After about two weeks of this, my friend said to her one morning, when the rush was over and few people were left in the dining room, "Mildred, will you bring me something special from the kitchen?" "Why, certainly, I'll get you anything you want." The old saint of God then carefully described his order. He wanted a pancake that was cooked on one side and not touched on the other.

The Half-Baked Pancake

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The Dawn of Grace - Part 3

By James Boice

Theme: Law and Grace

This week’s lessons show how the grace that came through Jesus Christ fits with the

perfect law of God and its condemnation against us for our sins.

Scripture: John 1:17

But there is more to the meaning of Jesus' personal graciousness than how he is described in 1 Corinthians 13 and Galatians 5. For when John introduces Jesus as “full of grace and truth” he does so in a verse that is speaking of the incarnation, that is, in a verse that tells how Jesus is God come down to us in human form. And the importance of that is that it means that God is gracious, too, for God is like Jesus.

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A Drink

Posted 12/30/15 by Donald Barnhouse

If I ask if you would be willing to take a drink of the finest spring water - the purest water that could be obtained by any chemical stan­dards of analysis - you might answer that you would certainly be will­ing to drink such water. Then suppose I tell you that I have not said a word about the glass into which the water is to be poured. That should give you pause, for the glass in which that pure spring water is con­veyed to you has just been emptied of diphtheria culture from a medi­cal laboratory, and multitudes of deadly germs are spread through the water. Now will you take a drink? You refuse, of course.

A Drink

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The Reformation: A Bible Movement (Part 2)

by Scott Redd • December 29, 2015

The clarity of scripture does not rely on extraordinary means such as new revelation or mystical meditation, but rather the clarity of scripture is on display by simple ordinary means of teaching and communication.

In the first post in this series we briefly considered the way in which the Reformers viewed the Scriptures--as they are in truth, the authoritative written word of God.

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The Dawn of Grace - Part 2

By James Boice

Theme: Peter’s Revealing Speech and the Arrival of Grace in Christ

This week’s lessons show how the grace that came through Jesus Christ fits with the

perfect law of God and its condemnation against us for our sins.

Scripture: John 1:17

In the fifteenth chapter of Acts there is a revealing statement of how this change must have struck the early Christians. The council of Jerusalem was in session, and it had been debating whether the ceremonial requirements of the Old Testament should be imposed on Gentile Christians. Paul and his fellow missionaries had been preaching the gospel to Gentiles, Gentiles had been turning to Christ, and churches that were largely Gentile were being established. Paul had not been requiring these Gentile Christians to come under legal Jewish obligations, requirements such as circumcision, keeping the Sabbath, observing Jewish feast days, and kosher cooking. His opponents, known as the legalistic party, were insisting that these were essential. They argued that no one could be saved without them.

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A Copper Penny

Posted 12/29/15 by Donald Barnhouse

In 1947, a rumor spread that the Ford Motor Company would give a Ford in exchange for every copper penny dated 1943. The rumor spread so fast that Ford offices throughout the country were jammed with requests for information, and in spite of a telephone strike, thousands of inquiries came in by telephone as well as by telegram and mail. Washington also reported that a large volume of queries had been received at the offices of the mint. It all turned out to be a joke. The statistics of the mint show that in 1943 there was no copper available for coinage and that 1,093,838,670 pennies were minted of steel-zinc, but that the number made of copper was exactly zero.

A Copper Penny

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The Dawn of Grace - Part 1

By James Boice

Theme: Grace in the Old Testament and the New

This week’s lessons show how the grace that came through Jesus Christ fits with the

perfect law of God and its condemnation against us for our sins.

Scripture: John 1:17

There is a tendency among dispensationalists to emphasize differences between the Old Testament and the New Testament, and there is a corresponding tendency among reformed thinkers to minimize or deny them. But there is one area in which even the most rigorous reformed theologians must acknowledge a difference between the testaments, and that is between an emphasis upon law in the Old Testament and the emphasis upon grace in the New. The reason? It is the teaching of the New Testament itself. John 1:17 teaches the distinction when it says, “The law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.”

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My Vase

Posted 12/28/15 by Donald Barnhouse

Years ago in France, as I watched a potter at work, he asked me if I would like to try my hand at making something. So I took a lump of clay, wet my hands, shaped the clay and threw it against the wheel. As it began to turn, I pressed my hand against the clay and it rose up into a pillar. Then I put my finger into the middle and made an opening.

My Vase

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Posted 12/26/15 by mharris

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What's in a Name?

by Charles Barrett • December 25, 2015

Shakespeare’s Juliet asks, “What is in a name?” She loved Romeo, regardless of his surname. Despite her wishes to the contrary or her desire to minimize the significance, Romeo was always going to be a Montague. In Scripture, names mean something. They matter. The names, or titles, God used to reveal himself communicated particular truths to his people. This is acutely evident in the Old Testament, but also present in the New. Joseph received specific instructions from the angel of the Lord to name the child born of the virgin, Jesus, for he shall save his people from there sins (Matthew 1:21). This announcement was made in order that it might be fulfilled what was previously prophesied by Isaiah, “Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel” (Isaiah 7:14; Matthew 1:23). Name Him Jesus because he will save his people from their sins. Call him Emmanuel because he is God with us.

Shakespeare’s Juliet asks, “What is in a name?” She loved Romeo, regardless of his surname. Despite her wishes to the contrary or her desire to minimize the significance, Romeo was always going to be a Montague. In Scripture, names mean something. They matter. The names, or titles, God used to reveal himself communicated particular truths to his people. This is acutely evident in the Old Testament, but also present in the New.

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