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Issue 45

Thu, Jan 15, 2009
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Includes the articles The Story of God's Mighty Acts by C.H. Spurgeon, The Upper Room Men by Leonard Ravenhill, and The Gods of the Age by Sammy Tippit.

Articles In This Issue

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Life Action
Thu, Jan 15, 2009
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Titus Coan arrived on the island of Hawaii in 1835 to become the pastor of a church with 23 members. This church was about to see a massive change. Coan was born in Connecticut in 1801, the child of a devotedly religious family. His mother was the aunt of Asahel Nettleton, the well known evangelist of the Second Great Awakening in New England. Although exposed to the gospel most of his life, he did not surrender himself to Christ until 1829, during a revival in his hometown and after a prolonged illness. His surrender was wholehearted, and he began to ...

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Nancy Leigh DeMoss
Thu, Jan 15, 2009
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Seasons of adversity—economic or otherwise—do not catch God off guard. He knows everything that is going on in our world. He also knows what lies ahead. He is orchestrating all things to fulfill His eternal, redemptive purposes and to glorify Himself.

God cares about how adverse circumstances affect the lives of His children. Those circumstances may be intense and painful at times, but they do not have to overwhelm us or steal our peace. In fact, in the ultimate sense, anything that makes us need God is a blessing!

Crises can provide opportunities for God's people to ...

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John MacArthur
Thu, Jan 15, 2009
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The wrath of God is admittedly not a popular subject. But it is an absolutely critical and central subject to any understanding of the gospel. Now, there are a number of different aspects to the wrath of God. There is what we could call eternal wrath, because it is the punishment that God brings on unbelieving sinners forever in hell. There is also eschatological wrath. That is the wrath of God that is released at the end of the world. There is what we could call cataclysmic wrath—like a tsunami, a volcano, a hurricane, an earthquake, a plane flying ...

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Charles Spurgeon
Thu, Jan 15, 2009
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“We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days, in the times of old” (Psalm 44:1). We have heard that God has at times done very mighty acts. He has not always permitted his church to go on climbing by slow degrees to victory, but he has been pleased at times to smite one terrible blow and lay his enemies down on the earth.

Have you never read how God won to himself great renown on the day of Pentecost? Peter the fisherman stood up and preached in ...

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Walter Price
Thu, Jan 15, 2009
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Though my investments should not bear interest and there be no funds in my IRA, though the yield of the market should fail and the mutuals produce no funds, though I should be laid off from work and there be no gas in the car, yet I will exult in the Lord, I will rejoice in the God of my salvation. The Lord God is my strength; He is my security; He is my success. (personal paraphrase of Habakkuk 3:17-19) I think God is up to something. Could it be much the same as He said to Habakkuk? Look ...

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