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Monday, August 12, 2019

Lips and slips

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“If your lips would keep from slips,  Five things observe with care: To whom you speak, of whom you speak, And how, and when, and whe...
Sunday, August 11, 2019

Why Not Now?

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Too few are the garlands we weave for the living, Too many the wreaths that are laid on the bier; If someone has flowers or praise to b...
Saturday, August 10, 2019

The gold and the temple, swearing

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Matthew 23:16-22 Woe unto you,  ye  blind guides, which say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear ...
Friday, August 09, 2019

The Two Keys

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From The Organ , Saturday, June 28, 1856 These excerpts are from a piece titled “LESSON—NO. 4” over the name INSTRUCTOR. …Ans. We have t...
Thursday, August 08, 2019

Christian doctor FIRED, and other links

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The posting of links does not constitute an endorsement of the sites linked, and not necessarily even agreement with the specific posts link...
Wednesday, August 07, 2019

Accursed from Christ

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I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ Romans 9:1-5 I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me wi...
Tuesday, August 06, 2019

Some more words

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bada din , noun. A notable or significant day, esp. one on which an important festival or momentous event takes place. brujo , noun. Origi...
Monday, August 05, 2019

Reprise of blog quotes

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Hope you are still reading the blog. Since you liked these “weird and disturbing” quotes so much, I decided to post them again, plus one mor...

Let us love one another

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Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. 1 John 4:7 “Love is of G...
Sunday, August 04, 2019

Jesus, once for sinners slain

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The name Joseph Hart is not as well-known as Isaac Watts and Charles Wesley, but in my opinion Hart wrote some great experiential Christian...

Death Shown Forth, 7s.

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Saturday, August 03, 2019

164th Anniversary of the East Texas Convention

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The 164th Anniversary meeting of the East Texas Sacred Harp Convention will occur next weekend ( d.v. ), August 10-11, at the Henderson ...
Friday, August 02, 2019

Sing with the spirit and with understanding

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Baptist preacher and Sacred Harp composer Henry Smith Rees wrote the following letter to The Musical Million journal. The copy I have i...
Thursday, August 01, 2019

The tribute money

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Q. What is the meaning of the tribute money in Matthew 17? Text: Matthew 17:24-27 And when they were come to Capernaum, they that re...
Wednesday, July 31, 2019

Easton on Predestination

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This word is properly used only with reference to God’s plan or purpose of salvation [ I disagree, rlv ].  The Greek word rendered “predesti...
Tuesday, July 30, 2019

Once in Christ, in Christ forever

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C. H. Spurgeon: “Him that cometh to Me I will in no wise cast out.”  John 6:37 No limit is set to  the duration  of this promise. It do...
Monday, July 29, 2019

Things fall together, and other quotes

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The posting of quotes by human authors does not constitute agreement with either the quotes or their sources. (I try to confirm the sources ...

It is not the critic who counts

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It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them be...
Sunday, July 28, 2019

The Name of Jesus is So Sweet

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Tampa Weekly Tribune , Thursday, September 3, 1914 page 6, column 6 1. The name of Jesus is so sweet, I love its music to repeat; It ...
Saturday, July 27, 2019

Explanation of Meter, from The Baptist Standard Hymnal

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The following explanation of Meter (the author prefers the spelling “Metre” which we do not as commonly use nowadays) is taken from The Bapt...