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Patient With The Ignorant

23 February 2010

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After Peter healed a lame beggar in Solomon’s portico, he preached to the astounded crowds the miracle gathered. His message must have pierced their hearts, for over and over he emphasized their responsibility for Christ’s death. YOU deliver him to Pilate. YOU denied the Holy and Righteous One. YOU requested [...]

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The Impatience of God

17 November 2008

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God is patient and longsuffering when it comes to our sins, but impatient over our suffering. The book of Judges recounts how Israel rejected God repeatedly, and after much patience with their idolatries, would send foreign nations to oppress them, to turn them back to himself. And every time, after chafing under their oppressors’ yokes for [...]

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