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Aug 6, 2024 | 
preachingtoday.com | Michael Lawrence |Mark Buchanan
Introduction
I went to a university that was known for its basketball team. The students who attended the games (like me), were known as the sixth man on the team, because of our persistent vocal support of what was going on on the court. We had all sorts of cheers, but one of the things we were best known for was our creativity in taunting the opponent.
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Jul 15, 2024 | 
preachingtoday.com | Michael Lawrence |Mark Mitchell |Matt Woodley
Introduction
Americans complain a lot. The Pilgrims and Puritans came over here because they were complaining about religious authority. We fought for our independence complaining about political authority. And not only is it in our history; it's our fundamental right to complain. John F. Kennedy first articulated our four basic consumer rights in a 1950 speech, and Congress went on to enact them in law. One of those rights is the right to complain. We don't just complain as individual consumers.
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Jun 12, 2024 | 
desiringgod.org | Michael Lawrence
ABSTRACT: Ten years after the English Parliament published the Westminster Confession, a group of Reformed ministers, including John Owen and Thomas Goodwin, met to draft a new confession: the 1658 Savoy Declaration. Using Westminster as their guide, they honed and clarified doctrinal statements and also attached thirty articles on congregational polity.
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Jan 9, 2024 | 
divephotoguide.com | Ian Bongso-Seldrup |Michael Lawrence
Panasonic Announces Lumix S-E100 f/2.8 L-Mount Macro LensBy Ian Bongso-Seldrup, January 9, 2024 @ 04:00 AM (EST)Source: DPReview
At CES 2024, Panasonic has announced the Lumix S 100mm f/2.8 macro lens for full-frame L-mount cameras. The lens is comprised of 13 elements in 11 groups, and includes three aspherical elements, two UED elements, and one ED element. It employs an internal focusing design, but lacks optical image stabilization.
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Jun 13, 2023 | 
divephotoguide.com | Ian Bongso-Seldrup |Michael Lawrence
Israel’s Rosh Hanikra-Achziv Marine Reserve Opens to VisitorsBy Ian Bongso-Seldrup, June 13, 2023 @ 03:00 AM (EST)Source: Ynetnews
Israel has officially opened the largest marine reserve in the country, the Rosh Hanikra-Achziv Marine Reserve, which covers an area of just over 38 square miles on the Israeli Mediterranean coast.
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Jun 10, 2023 | 
centralfloridalifestyle.com | Michael Lawrence
Children at Risk of Losing Medicaid Coverage, this year. What is the reason? Nearly a million Floridians, many of them children, are at risk of losing Medicaid coverage over the next yearMedicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) have re-started their monthly checks for eligibility after pausing them for the past three years. This means hundreds of thousands of Floridians may lose their coverage from these programs over the next year.
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Jun 8, 2023 | 
crosswalk.com | Michael Lawrence
The Abrahamic Covenant is really the beginnings of the formal revelation of the covenant of grace, of God's decision to reach into humanity and specifically save people for Himself. It comes in the form of a promise to Abraham. Abraham, who's the son of an idolater, who did not know God. God takes the initiative with him, calls him into a relationship with Himself, and makes just unilaterally some promises to Abraham.
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Jun 5, 2023 | 
crosswalk.com | Michael Lawrence
The New Covenant is the promise that God makes with mankind that He will forgive sin and restore communion with those whose hearts believe in His Son, Jesus Christ. Jesus is the mediator of the New Covenant, and His death on the cross is the basis of the promise. He defeated death by His resurrection and restored life for those who believe in Him. Photo Credit: ©Getty Images/Tinnakorn Jorruang
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May 12, 2023 | 
crosswalk.com | Michael Lawrence
In fulfilling the promise to Abraham, that fulfillment comes as it turns out in stages. We didn't know when the promise is first given to Abraham that this is the way it's going to work out, that in fact, God reveals his salvation progressively through history over time. And the first major stage of the fulfillment of that is the calling of Abraham's descendants, now the nation of Israel, out of Egypt, out of slavery, and bringing them into the promised land.
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Feb 15, 2023 | 
crosswalk.com | Michael Lawrence
When God establishes the covenant with the nation of Israel, he establishes himself as king. Israel is to have no other king other than God. But in the law itself, God makes provision for the day in which they will have a human king, a king who would not replace God, but represent God to the people. That comes to fulfillment with King David. Of course there's a first attempt when Israel asks for a king, but they don't want God's king.
