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		<title>Sunday Sermon, 7.17.11</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 15:42:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(The following was proclaimed at Bigelow Church on July 17, 2011.  These sermon notes are postedprimarily to help those who wish to look up the Scriptural cross-references made in the message.  The sermon may be viewed at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/bigelow-church-live-sermon). The Day of the Lord &#160; &#160; Filed under: sermons<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=clayjarspeaking.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8521617&amp;post=3250&amp;subd=clayjarspeaking&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>John MacArthur on Rob Bell</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2011 18:08:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[John MacArthur is blogging a series on the Rob Bell book, &#8220;Love Wins&#8221; and here is an example of the sound teaching you will find by MacArthur taking on Bell in his own words:  http://www.gty.org/Blog/B110421. In MacArthur&#8217;s own words Just how serious is Rob Bell’s heresy? It is not merely that he rejects what Jesus [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=clayjarspeaking.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8521617&amp;post=3245&amp;subd=clayjarspeaking&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Refreshment and Reminder</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Apr 2011 18:31:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is hard to understand Christians who think they can live a Christian life without ever reading their Bibles. it is impossible. Our memories do not retain and maintain what we need to know. We are built in such a way that we need refreshment and reminder &#8211; again and again. Pastor Ray Stedman in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=clayjarspeaking.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8521617&amp;post=3242&amp;subd=clayjarspeaking&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Boldness</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2011 13:58:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hugh Latimer, the great English Reformer, once preached before Henry VII and offended Henry with his boldness. Latimer was commanded to preach the following weekend and make an apology. On the following Sunday after reading the text Latimer addressed himself as he began to preach: Hugh Latimer, dost thou know before whom thou art this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=clayjarspeaking.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8521617&amp;post=3239&amp;subd=clayjarspeaking&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When You Burn the Ships</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 17:01:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Cortez landed at Vera Cruz in 1519 to begin his conquest of Mexico with a small force of 700 men, he purposely set fire to his fleet of eleven ships. His men on the shore watched their only means of retreat sink to the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico.With no means of retreat, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=clayjarspeaking.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8521617&amp;post=3236&amp;subd=clayjarspeaking&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sunday Sermon, 4.17.11</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Apr 2011 18:32:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(The following was proclaimed at Bigelow Church on April 17, 2011.  These sermon notes are postedprimarily to help those who wish to look up the Scriptural cross-references made in the message.  The sermon may be viewed at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/bigelow-church-live-sermon). Spotting a True Apostle Filed under: sermons<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=clayjarspeaking.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8521617&amp;post=3233&amp;subd=clayjarspeaking&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Knowing God</title>
		<link>http://clayjarspeaking.wordpress.com/2011/04/14/knowing-god/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 19:09:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[First, knowledge of God is important, for only through the knowledge of God can an individual enter into what the Bible terms eternal life (which is both the promise of life after death and living today as fully authentic a human life as possible; John 17:3). Second, knowledge of God is important because . . [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=clayjarspeaking.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8521617&amp;post=3230&amp;subd=clayjarspeaking&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thinking on &#8220;Natural&#8221; Disasters</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2011 17:02:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I receive The Banner of Truth magazine and the following appears in its May 2011 edition that I think captures quite a bit of Biblical truth in a brief amount of space concerning this difficult issue: &#8220;In recent times our part of the world has witnessed a series of disasters—unprecedented flooding in Queensland and Victoria, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=clayjarspeaking.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8521617&amp;post=3225&amp;subd=clayjarspeaking&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Plague of His Own Heart</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2011 17:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love the life, ministry and preaching of D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones (1899-1981). Now I am especially grateful as well for an anthology of some of his best thinking in quotations which have been culled by Tony Sargent in Gems From Martyn Lloyd-Jones. I&#8217;ve quoted from this work before and do so again here with this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=clayjarspeaking.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8521617&amp;post=3220&amp;subd=clayjarspeaking&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Grace Coming and Grace Going</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2011 14:17:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The single best treatment on the subject of sanctification (the growing life of Christ within the believer) I&#8217;ve read is John Piper&#8217;s Future Grace&#8211;I commend it to you for help for your journey with Christ. In it, he meditates upon what may be the significance of the invariable pattern found in every one of Paul&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=clayjarspeaking.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8521617&amp;post=3215&amp;subd=clayjarspeaking&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Bible Explains It</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Apr 2011 11:29:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;Do you believe things like that [the Fall of man into sin and resultant evil] today?&#8217; My dear friend, today&#8217;s world is what drives me to believe in it. I do not see a world going upwards, but a world going downwards. I do not understand life apart from the doctrine of the fall, the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=clayjarspeaking.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8521617&amp;post=3212&amp;subd=clayjarspeaking&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Provided For and Never Lost</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Apr 2011 14:05:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If eternal life cannot make it through a temporal week of my life, who needs it? Jesus Himself said, &#8220;My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they shall *never perish; no one can snatch them out of my hand.&#8221; Bishop J. C. Ryle [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=clayjarspeaking.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8521617&amp;post=3201&amp;subd=clayjarspeaking&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>We Prefer to Be Our Own gods</title>
		<link>http://clayjarspeaking.wordpress.com/2011/04/07/we-prefer-to-be-our-own-gods/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Apr 2011 00:47:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I take it as a given that all of us would prefer to be our own gods than to worship God. The Eden story is reenacted daily, not only generally in the homes and workplaces of our parishoners but quite particularly in the sanctuaries and offices, studies and meeting rooms in which we do our [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=clayjarspeaking.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8521617&amp;post=3199&amp;subd=clayjarspeaking&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Challenge to Keep Biblical Standards</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2011 16:35:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Truth and lies Rom. 1:25: They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator… (NIV). It is easy to rationalize sinful thoughts and behaviors when they serve our selfish purposes. Considering the standards of our culture, small compromises may seem insignificant in comparison. As Christian [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=clayjarspeaking.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8521617&amp;post=3194&amp;subd=clayjarspeaking&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>We Were Made to Stand In Awe and Admire</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[John Piper draws this out of a sermon once given by America&#8217;s greatest theologian, Jonathan Edwards: &#8220;What I am trying to express here is that the glory of Christ, as he appeared among us, consisted not in one attribute or another, and not in one act or another, but in what Jonathan Edwards called &#8216;an [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=clayjarspeaking.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8521617&amp;post=3191&amp;subd=clayjarspeaking&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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