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2006 Ligonier Conference: The Shepherd and the Flock text of scripture and see if we can’t take it apart a little bit in dealing with this subject of the pastor and his flock my problem with this text is this is where i have lived for the last 37 years as the pastor of grace [...]

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What does the Bible say about tattoos? I was wondering, what does  the Bible say about tattoos? About tattoos? Yes. Elizabeth. You go back into the Old Testament,  tattoos are identified with pagan religion. They were basically in ancient times people  identified their deities with the use of tattoos. So the people of God were [...]

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2005 Ligonier Conference: The Word of God In Spiritual Growth somebody said that if all the people who had read my commentaries were laid end to end they’d be a lot more comfortable I don’t think it was a compliment I uh it it is a always a joy to be here and and a [...]

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2006 Ligonier Conference: Jesus, the Head of the Church subject that’s been assigned to me jesus christ the head of the church is a very very serious subject and i’m pretty confident that just off the top it might appear to you to be somewhat benign somewhat ho-hum certainly we all know that jesus christ [...]

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2003 Ligonier Conference: The Myth of Influence, Part 2 rich and wonderful days in the word of god speaking of the things concerning the kingdom of god and as you know i gave you half of what is on my heart yesterday morning and we want to complete the remainder this morning so i would [...]

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This Feeling Won’t Last Forever It will pass. That’s what Paul  is trying to get you to see about some of the things you think are so  important in your life: It will pass. Paul is trying to get us to understand in 1  Corinthians, which is a letter to a church that was confused [...]

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You Will Survive This God said you needed to hear this.  “I have prayed for you, Simon, that your faith may not fail.” But didn’t it?  Didn’t Peter deny knowing Jesus three times? Didn’t Peter look at the servant girl and say, “I don’t even know what you’re  talking about; I’m not one of them”? [...]

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When The Fight’s Within Even the strongest human will has a limit.  It seems like the person who wrote Psalm 13 has hit his limit. He doesn’t start  the beginning of the psalm with praise, thanks, “Glory be,” or “Hallowed.”  He says, “How long?” Not “Hallelujah” but “How-long-elujah.” It’s  a different kind of prayer. I’m [...]

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Stop Saying It’s Too Late I was talking to this friend the other  day, and they were stuck in regret. They just kept expressing their regret over and over  again. They said this fishing term. They said, “I just feel like it’s the one that got  away. It’s the one that got away.” Now, they [...]

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Why God Doesn’t Give Details At every point along the way  in my journey as a leader, God did not give me details  until I gave him obedience. As much as we think we would like for God to  come down and give us all of the details for what we need to do about [...]

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