The Works of Rev. Samuel Shaw, M.A.
Author : Samuel Shaw
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Page : 452 pages
File Size : 22,9 MB
Release : 1821
Category : Presbyterian Church
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Author : Samuel Shaw
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Page : 452 pages
File Size : 22,9 MB
Release : 1821
Category : Presbyterian Church
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Author : Samuel Shaw
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Page : 458 pages
File Size : 28,65 MB
Release : 1821
Category : Presbyterian Church
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Author : R. L. Coursey
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 18,76 MB
Release : 2016-12-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1512765465
The real problem of the hour is not that we view our problems as insurmountable, nor that we fail to view our God as insuperable in the midst of all these problems, but primarily that we fail to count our God as inestimable, even above our need to solve all of these problems. It is the failure to perceive the supreme glory of Christ that moves the church to promote counterfeit offers that compete with His glory, and moves men to receive a counterfeit Christ, whose highest value consists not of His own excellency, but of His willingness to bestow upon us that which our earthly, carnal and temporal nature counts most excellent. This magnetic pull of the world upon our affections will only cease by a God-ward attraction. It is in the face of Jesus Christ that the brightness of the glory of God shines forth. He alone is the brightness of His glory. And unless we exalt Him to preeminence, we know nothing of that glory.
Author : R L Coursey
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 48,9 MB
Release : 2018-03-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1973620081
As Satan tempted Christ, so he tempts us today. Pointing to the glory of the kingdoms of the world, he says, “All these things I will give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me.” Although always with an air of piety, the consumer-driven church is lured into following the counsel of Satan while rejecting the example of Christ. He who is a deity emptied himself of his privileges and became a man. And not just any man but the lowest of men—a servant. He died not just any death but the cruelest of deaths—on a cross, as a condemned criminal. Such a vision of Christ’s humiliation should consume all of our self-interest and pour contempt on all our pride. But the vision of the exalted Christ should all the more compel us to renounce our own self-importance and self-seeking. The enslaving power of self-love does not only attach itself to the church, transforming its spiritual life into empty forms, turning its so-called good works into monuments of self-glory and changing its sacred mission into a search for the significance and fulfillment of self. It also enslaves the individual Christian by exalting the self to preeminence. Thus, it defeats real happiness by producing pride, discontent, envy, bitterness, unforgiveness, ambition, anxiety, and a whole host of other destructive qualities that exist for no other reason than to defend and maintain the self that we have erroneously, and to our own injury, exalted to preeminence. Self-love will never be made subordinate until we get a glimpse, by divine grave, of something far lovelier. Other idols may be replaced by even more enticing ones, but the idol of the self can only be laid aside by the all-entrancing vision of the loveliness of Christ.
Author : Samuel Shaw
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Page : 464 pages
File Size : 18,75 MB
Release : 1821
Category : Presbyterian Church
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Author : Thomas GIBBONS (D.D.)
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Page : 252 pages
File Size : 31,35 MB
Release : 1772
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Author : Robert Bigsby
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Page : 514 pages
File Size : 30,12 MB
Release : 1854
Category : Repton (England)
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Page : 440 pages
File Size : 15,32 MB
Release : 1887
Category : Local history
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Author : New York Public Library. Research Libraries
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Page : 592 pages
File Size : 22,30 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Library catalogs
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Author : Rupert Simms
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Page : 584 pages
File Size : 25,96 MB
Release : 1894
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