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John Owen, Famous English Puritan Theologian Asks: "Are You Killing Sin" in Your Life? Or, "Is Sin Killing You"? Check it out!
“Be Killing Sin or It Will Be Killing You” [1] : Rhetorical Insights Into John Owen’s “Mortification of Sin in Believers” [2]...
Dr. Roger D Duke
Apr 2217 min read
"O MY SAVIOUR, Help me"! This Was My Request and Confession When I Threw Myself on Christ Jesus My LORD! AMEN
A "Confession of Faith," an outward word of an inner heart confession. A PRAYER, A HEARTCRY, AND CONFESSION OF MY FAITH "O MY SAVIOUR,"...
Dr. Roger D Duke
Apr 221 min read
One Often Hears, "I Hope So..." But, That Expresses Not Much More Than a Wish! Do You Have "Hope In God"? or a "Confident Optimism" in Him? Ponder That!
"Hope" definition taken from the Macarthur Study Bible. According to the John MacArthur’ Study Bible , p. 1888 HOPE MEANS: “Confident...
Dr. Roger D Duke
Apr 211 min read
A Replay of a Popular Sermon Dealing with Man's Ultimate Appointments: Preached Today at the Memphis Union Mission-It Was Previously Entitled "The Nine 'Rs' of Hell" Give it a Listen!
A message about a serious subject that ends with hope.
Dr. Roger D Duke
Apr 211 min read
Two Hymns Commemorating Christ's Death and Resurrection! "Were You There When They Crucified My LORD?" and "Up From the Grave He Arose!"
A view of the Cross from His empty tomb. One perspective on Jesus Christ's resurrection! Were You There When They Crucified My LORD?...
Dr. Roger D Duke
Apr 182 min read
Jesus Had No Place To Lay His Head: He Had No Bed!
A Devotional for April 18, 2025 "Good Friday" Not Even a Bed “And Jesus said to him, ‘Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests,...
Dr. Roger D Duke
Apr 182 min read
John Owen Declared: "Be Killing Sin or It Will Be Killing You"!
You can "execute" sin in your life by the Holy Spirit, or God will execute your because of your sin! “Be Killing Sin or It Will Be...
Dr. Roger D Duke
Apr 1717 min read
Since, “There are Seasons of Sowing and Reaping” in Our Lives. What Are You Sowing? What Do You Expect To Reap? Eternal Life or Eternal Damnation? Ponder This!
A Devotional Thought for the Seventeenth Day of April 2025 Looking to Good Friday and Our Lord's Resurrection From one of the Founders of...
Dr. Roger D Duke
Apr 173 min read
John Bunyan Asked: "Is Your Life Full of the Joy of Christ"?
A Devotional for April 17 Fullness of Joy “You make known to me the path of life; in your presence there is fullness of joy; at your...
Dr. Roger D Duke
Apr 162 min read
This Day in Christian History: Louis de Berquin Rejected a Compromise that Would Have Saved His Life-He Was A French Evangelical Martyr
Berquin on trial for his life over his Evangelical writings against the Pope and the Roman Catholic Church. Louis de Berquin Rejected a...
Dr. Roger D Duke
Apr 163 min read
The Bestselling Reference Bible That Remade American Evangelicalism
The Bestselling Reference Bible That Remade American Evangelicalism By combining familiar and original material, the Scofield Reference...
Dr. Roger D Duke
Apr 1515 min read
A Devotional for Holy Week 2025: "And the Lion Shall Lay Down by the Lamb" Ponder the Ultimate Results of Christ and His Resurrection: "He Is Risen INDEED!"
"And the Lion Shall Lay Down by the Lamb" A Devotional for the Fifteenth Day of April of Holy Week From the Pen of Rev. John Gill "And...
Dr. Roger D Duke
Apr 152 min read
A HOLY WEEK Reading from Dr. Roy Beaman, My Beloved Theology Professor: "The Self-Emptying of Christ Jesus"
Dr. Roy Beaman, Professor of Languages at Mid America Baptist Theological Seminary THE SELF-EMPTYING OF CHRIST JESUS by Roy O. Beaman,...
Dr. Roger D Duke
Apr 1430 min read
Here We Know but in Part: “But when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away” I Corinthians 13: 10. That is What I Long to See and To Have in Reality! The Beulah Land of Our Lord's!
An artist rendition of the Land of Beulah! It means "married" in the Holy Scripture, and is a metaphor for Heaven. A Devotional for the...
Dr. Roger D Duke
Apr 142 min read
A Line in a Hymn Declares: "Every Work for Jesus Will Be Blest"! For Whom Are You Working? Yourself? Jesus Christ the Master? For Time? For Eternity? Please Ponder This Idea?
Image of a Blacksmith working with his hands to win his daily bread and to serve and minister to his local community. Luther declared...
Dr. Roger D Duke
Apr 114 min read
The Bible's Proto-Evangelium; The First Prophecy of Christ's Coming as Savior and Redeemer. OR, Why Women Hate Snakes So Much?!
An artist's rendition of the historical temptation of Eve, the Serpent, and the proverbial "apple." (Biblical notation: The Scripture...
Dr. Roger D Duke
Apr 103 min read
A Remembrance of/for B. Gray Allison: Founder and President of Mid America Baptist Theological Seminary
That in All Things He Might Have the Preeminence: Essays in Honor of B. Gray Allison (Readers Note: This is the "Preface" to an...
Dr. Roger D Duke
Apr 1012 min read
"Orthopraxy, Orthodoxy, What Did You Say?" Does Your Orthopraxy Match Your Orthodoxy? This is One Main Issue When Seeking to Follow Christ as a Faithful Disciple!
Picture of the Grand Canyon. It is this editor's confession that I have endeavored, all of my Christian Life, to close the gap between my...
Dr. Roger D Duke
Apr 95 min read
A Daily Devotional from the Desk of John Bunyan: Christ is the End and the Fulfillment of the Law
April 9 Christ: The End of the Law “For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes” Romans 10: 4. And...
Dr. Roger D Duke
Apr 92 min read
Christ: He is Able! Christ is Made Unto Us Our: Wisdom, Righteousness, Sanctification, and Redemption. He is All We Need for Life and Godliness! Come to Him! Amen!
Christ with outstretched hand, He welcomes all who come to Him by repentance and faith! A Devotional Reading for April 8, 2025 Christ: He...
Dr. Roger D Duke
Apr 82 min read
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