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The Contract That Cannot Be Amended - Illustration on discipleship | IllustrateTheWord

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The Contract That Cannot Be Amended

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In 1647, the Westminster divines labored for years over every clause of their Confession, weighing each word against the infallible standard of Scripture. No phrase...

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The Prayer That Prays You

In the monastery at Gethsemani, Thomas Merton described a moment when his carefully constructed spiritual identity simply fell away. He had spent years building what...

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