Author Archives: Robert Franklin
How Can I Sing?
“How shall we sing the Lord’s song in a foreign land? If I forget you, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget its skill! Let my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth, if I do not remember you, … Continue reading
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Tagged christianity, Devotional, friendship, joy, revenge, suffering
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Free to Forward
Every now and again we get the notion in our society to try and be “humane.” Sometimes the attempt to perpetrate random acts of kindness lasts awhile; sometimes we get over our sentimentality quite quickly. Either way the question remains, “What … Continue reading
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Tagged belief, christianity, direction, faith, grace, jesus, obedience
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Sola Scriptura…Sola Fide…Sola Gratia…Solo Christo
Scripture alone, by faith alone, through grace alone, in Christ alone. For hundreds upon hundreds of years the church had inserted itself in between the sinner and the Savior. In order to be right with God one must first … Continue reading
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Tagged church, faith, history, holidays, jesus, politics, salvation
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Overwhelmed
[picapp src=”4/a/6/6/Swimming_Day_Eight_ce39.jpg?adImageId=6976230&imageId=5748764″ width=”234″ height=”156″ /]Being overwhelmed. Most any of our contemporaries may relate to that sensation of drowning in a sea of obligations, appointments, responsibilities, requirements. It is an odd living we have created for ourselves. We, who have more and … Continue reading
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Why the Heavens Sing for Joy
It is too small a thing for those who are rescued from death to be gathered into little groups of self-congratulatory societies. (Isaiah 49.6) The sequestering of the recipients of God’s grace in Christ Jesus is a hellish activity. The salvation work … Continue reading
Hopefully In Love
“For in Christ, neither our most conscientious religion nor disregard of religion amounts to anything. What matters is something far more interior: faith expressed in love. ” (Galatians 5:6, The Message) It is far easier to be religious than to … Continue reading
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