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Dr. Roger D Duke
6 hours ago2 min read
A Different Valentine's Message for You: Do You Believe "God's Word Raises the Dead"? John Bunyan Emphatically Does, Check It Out!
Jesus' Word raises the dead because He is "The Resurrection" in Himself! A Valentine's Day Devotional for February 14, 2025 From the Pen...
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Dr. Roger D Duke
1 day ago2 min read
Does Your Heart Move You "To Love the LORD Your God" with All Your Heart? A Thought Worth Consideration No Doubt!
The Greatest Commandment: To Love the LORD thy God with All your Heart. A Devotional for Thursday February 13, 2025 From the Pen of Dr....
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Dr. Roger D Duke
2 days ago2 min read
The Blind Poet/Songwriter Fanny Crosby Could See Eternity Better Than Most of Her Peers! Check Out Her Story Here!
Blind poet Fanny Crosby. Blind Fanny Crosby Wrote Hymns We Treasure ON THIS DATE, 12 February l9l5 , Fanny Crosby died at the age of...
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Dr. Roger D Duke
3 days ago1 min read
Please; Stop! Look! And Listen! Pray and Ponder This Prayer with Me in Your Heart This Morning!
Trinitarian emblem; the crown represents the Father, the cross represents the Son, the dove represents the Holy Spirit. "TRINITY PRAYER"...
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Dr. Roger D Duke
4 days ago2 min read
Do You Believe God Chooses, Predestinates, or Elects to Eternal Life? John Bunyan Did? It Is Worth Considering!
God's choice of some over others for His own reasons and for His own GLORY . . . A Devotional Thought for February 10, 2025 From John...
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Dr. Roger D Duke
Feb 73 min read
At National Prayer Breakfast, (President)Trump leans into role of faith in nation’s past, future. Check it out!
President Trump speaks to the National Prayer Breakfast. WASHINGTON (BP) — Extolling the importance of religious liberty President Donald...
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Dr. Roger D Duke
Feb 72 min read
Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Lutheran Minister, Persecuted, and Martyred for His Stand for Christ Against Hitler! Read His Story Here!
BUCHENWALD was among the first and largest of the German concentration camps. Although it was not officially an extermination camp, a...
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Dr. Roger D Duke
Feb 62 min read
What Do You Believe? Or Better Said, In Whom Do You Believe? Check Out This Confession!
A Devotional Thought for February 6, 2025. From the Pen of John Bunyan, Author of Pilgrim's Progress "I Believe Christ is Exalted" Christ...
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Dr. Roger D Duke
Feb 53 min read
"Where You Go I Will Go; Where You Stay I Will Stay; Your God Shall Be My God; Where You Die I Will Die and Be Buried"! An Old Testament Confession That Applies To Following Christ Today!
Ruth going back to Israel with her mother-in-law Naomi after all heir husbands died. The other daughter-in-law goes back to her heathen...
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Dr. Roger D Duke
Feb 43 min read
Have You or Are You Committing "The Sin of Unbelief"? My Prayer to God for You Is: "Help Thou Thy Unbelief"!
John 3: 16, probably the best known verse for belief in Jesus Christ as Savior. A Devotional Thought For The Fourth Day of February 2025...
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Dr. Roger D Duke
Feb 33 min read
Do You Realize That Jesus Christ Declared He Is "The Resurrection and The Life" Spiritually? Things Worth Considering, Don't You Think?
Lazarus arises alter Jesus calls his name at the tomb. John 11:25 Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection and the life [1]...
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Dr. Roger D Duke
Jan 315 min read
Have You, Like John Bunyan, Heard God's Call to Ministry? Or Even, Have You Heard the Call to Salvation in Christ? Please Ponder These Dear Reader!
Historical image of the RCA Victor dog hearing its master's voice over the phonograph. A Devotional for January 31, 2025 The Author’s...
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Dr. Roger D Duke
Jan 302 min read
Where Will You Be? Where Will You Be Sent, When Jesus Christ Says at the Last? "It Is Done"! Please Ponder This!
Icon of the Last Judgment, Christ separates the Righteous from the Damned. A Devotional Reading For The Thirtieth Day of January 2025...
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Dr. Roger D Duke
Jan 292 min read
One Forerunner of Baptist Doctrine; "Zwingli Submitted Sixty-Seven Articles to the Reformation Debate"
A portrait of Ulrich Zwingli, one Reformer who influenced Baptist doctrine down to the present day. This Day in Christian History For...
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Dr. Roger D Duke
Jan 283 min read
Do You, Like the Syrophoenician Woman, Pray with Importunity? Or Do You Pray At All? Please Contemplate That!
The Syrophoenician woman begs (Jesus) for her daughter. A Devotional for The Twenty Eighty Day of the January 2025 Which is a Sermon...
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Dr. Roger D Duke
Jan 272 min read
Have You, Like Blind Bartimaeus of Old Cried Out for Mercy to Jesus Christ of Nazareth?! Think about that would you please?
A Devotional Thought for January 27, 2025 From the Pen of John Bunyan This devotional is taken from Daily Readings (of) John Bunyan....
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Dr. Roger D Duke
Jan 253 min read
Like the Old Testament Passover in Egypt, Has the Blood of Christ Been Applied to the Lintel and Doorpost of Your Heart?
The Death Angle from God "Passing Over" where the Blood was not found on the lintel and door post. All who were inside were safe! A...
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![Dr. John A. Broadus Asks an Apologetic Question: “Is Knowledge of the Original [Biblical] Languages Indispensable for Expository Preaching?” Check it out . . .](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/81b3bb_105752a50c884e98856ddedaf5af4899~mv2.png/v1/fill/w_454,h_341,fp_0.50_0.50,q_95,enc_auto/81b3bb_105752a50c884e98856ddedaf5af4899~mv2.webp)
Dr. Roger D Duke
Jan 234 min read
Dr. John A. Broadus Asks an Apologetic Question: “Is Knowledge of the Original [Biblical] Languages Indispensable for Expository Preaching?” Check it out . . .
A leaf from the Hebrew Bible. A Devotional for The Twenty Third Day of the January 2025 From the Pen of Dr. John A. Broadus Scripture &...
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![Can That "Old Devil" Preach the Neglected Gospel? Check It Out! John Berridge, "the Old Devil," Preached the Neglected Gospel in England[!]](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/81b3bb_c8ec2c14598d41a08fc02fc899c58af2~mv2.png/v1/fill/w_454,h_341,fp_0.50_0.50,q_95,enc_auto/81b3bb_c8ec2c14598d41a08fc02fc899c58af2~mv2.webp)
Dr. Roger D Duke
Jan 222 min read
Can That "Old Devil" Preach the Neglected Gospel? Check It Out! John Berridge, "the Old Devil," Preached the Neglected Gospel in England[!]
John Berridge preached the "ye must be born again" to all after his own conversion. FOR TWENTY YEARS, John Berridge was known as “the old...
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Dr. Roger D Duke
Jan 212 min read
Is Your Life "Sustained by Prayer"? And Is God's Grace Sufficient for You? Please Give These Ideas Some Prayerful Thought?!
From the "Living Pen" of a dead Puritan and Independent-John Bunyan! "Sustained by Prayer" A Devotional Thought for January 21, 2025 From...
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