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The Scripture Declares, "By Grace are You Saved"! In that Grace, "In Christ" Come Out "Privileges" Praise the LORD! Christ is Our Privilege!
The Valley of Vision "PRIVILEDGES" Our Privileges in Christ O LORD GOD, Teach me to know that grace precedes, accompanies, and follows...
Dr. Roger D Duke
Apr 28, 20252 min read
A Poem by Anne Bradstreet: "To My Dear and Loving Husband" A Repost by the editorial board because of its popularity.
"To My Dear and Loving Husband" A Poem Dedicated to Her Husband BY ANNE BRADSTREET If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were...
Dr. Roger D Duke
Apr 28, 20251 min read
A pre-Reformation Voice In and To the Roman Catholic Church: Savonarola Raged Against Corruption at the Cost of His Life
WHEN Girolamo Savonarola was born in Ferrera, the moral landscape of Italy was as deplorable as it had been since the triumph of...
Dr. Roger D Duke
Apr 25, 20253 min read
Is Your Soul at Rest? Saint Augustine asserted, “You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it rests in you.” Only Christ Can Meet Our Deepest Needs! Ponder That!
Is Your Soul at Rest? Please enjoy the Gospel as found in the “Leather Journal” of Dr. Phil Newton of The Pillar Network. Information...
Dr. Roger D Duke
Apr 25, 20253 min read
The "Inverted Christian": Servant or Serving? The Way Up is the Way Down in God's Kingdom! Please Read and Ponder Today's Post!
The "inverted" sense of leadership. Jesus washes His disciples feet. The Son of God incarnate washes the feet of those of His followers...
Dr. Roger D Duke
Apr 24, 20253 min read
A Devotional Thought for April 24: God Extends His Grace Before We Are Converted! Have You Received God's Grace in Jesus Christ the LORD?!
(The images are Ashtoreth that King Manasseh made Jerusalem and Judah to worship.) April 24 God’s Grace Before Conversion “Moreover,...
Dr. Roger D Duke
Apr 24, 20252 min read
Is Your "Joy" Real? Or Is In Only "Happiness"? Is It Based on Outside Happenings or a Settled Internal Mindset Only Christ Can Bring? Please Ponder That!
"This Way to Happiness," is there really a place where you can go to find happiness when seeking real Joy? "Joy" A Devotional and...
Dr. Roger D Duke
Apr 23, 20252 min read
A Free Black Minister: COLORFUL JOHN MARRANT LEFT AN INCREDIBLE NARRATIVE-Please Consider His Life!
[Title page of Marrant's 1815 life; how much was fact, and how much symbolism? public domain] (Adapted, adopted, and used by permission...
Dr. Roger D Duke
Apr 23, 20254 min read
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 22, 202517 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 22, 20251 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 21, 20251 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 21, 20251 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 18, 20252 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 18, 20252 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 17, 202517 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 17, 20253 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 16, 20252 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 16, 20253 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 15, 202515 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 15, 20252 min read
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