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A Calvinist and a Fundamentalist Walk into a Bar…

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  • Tim Challies

Every Christians has three enemies—the flesh, the world, and the devil. In fighting sin and evil, it is important to know the many forms they take. Emphasizing one above the others is to lower our guards against these three enemies of Christians.

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Fighting the Enemy Within

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  • Martin VanderWal

Every Christian has to face three enemies: the world, the devil, and sin within. This article focuses on the fight against the flesh, or the old man, within the heart of each Christian. The best way to stand against this enemy of self is by knowing him and how he works against you.

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Do I Not Hate Those Who Hate You, O Lord?

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  • John Piper

God has a right to call down judgment on his enemies. God hates unrighteousness. In the Psalms, the people of God express this judgment in their songs and prayers. This has nothing to do with personal vindictiveness, but rather foreshadows God's final judgment and is a call to return to God, who judges in righteousness.

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The Mandate: Love Our Enemies Matt. 5:43-48

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  • John Nolland

Nolland studies Matthew 5:43-48 and other key texts that highlights the command to love our enemies as a priority in Christian discipleship. He further sheds light on Jesus’ teaching by setting it in the wider context not only of Matthew’s gospel but also of the ancient world and the Old Testament. He demonstrates that, without being critical of the Old Testament, Jesus radically extends its teaching.

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Evangelism that does not lead to purity of doctrine is just as faulty and incomplete as an orthodoxy which does not lead to a concern for, and communication with, the lost Francis Schaeffer
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