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Home Devotional Guide for February 27 to March 5, 2011

02/24/2011

For the week of February 27 to March 5, 2011.

This devotional guide is intended for home use, specifically for use among families, though you can use it by yourself. I recommend that you gather your family together, and for 15-20 minutes read scripture, discuss scripture's teaching, and pray for each other. The guide focuses on the scriptures we use on Sunday morning. In this case, the ongoing reading is from Ecclesiastes 11-12, and the sermon text is Philippians 4:10-23.

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Home Devotional Booklet for February 27-March 5, 2011
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Home Devotional Guide for February 20-26, 2011

02/16/2011

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For the week of February 20-26, 2011.

This devotional guide is intended for home use and it focuses on the scriptures we use on Sunday morning. In this case, the ongoing reading is from Ecclesiastes 10, and the sermon text is Philippians 4:2-9.

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Home Devotional Booklet for February 13-19, 2011

02/10/2011

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For the week of February 13-19, 2011.

This devotional guide is intended for home use and it focuses on the scriptures we use on Sunday morning. In this case, the ongoing reading is from Ecclesiastes 9, and the sermon text is Philippians 3:12-4:1.

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Ministry as Profession or Vocation?

02/08/2011

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Yesterday I read the below quote in a neat little book called Words to Winners of Souls by Horatius Bonar. An older book, but still very valuable, as he calls the minister to true conversion and an accurate understanding of his job—not to deliver sermons and go on the occasional visit, but to work diligently in every way to convert people to God, and so to save them.

"To deliver sermons on each returning Lord's Day, to administer the Lord's Supper statedly, to pay an occasional visit to those who request it, to attend religious meetings—this, we fear, sums up the ministerial life of multitudes who are, by profession, overseers of the flock of Christ. An incumbency of thirty, forty or fifty years often yields no more than this. So many sermons, so many baptisms, so many sacraments, so many visits, so many meetings of various kinds—these are all the pastoral annals, the parish records, the ALL of a lifetime's ministry to many! Of SOULS that have been saved, such a record could make no mention."

Challenging. I pray that after 30–50 of ministry that I will not realize I have been ministering in vain.

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