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Woe (alas) (3759) ouai

Woe (How dreadful!) (3750 - click and select "Phonetics" to hear "ouai" pronounced) (ouai pronounced "oo-ah'ee," an eerie, ominous foreboding sound some say is like the cry of an eagle) is an onomatopoeic word (an imitation of the sound) which serves as an interjection expressing a cry of intense di... Read More
Zac Poonen

(A Heavenly Home) 2. Make three choices in your marriage

Zac Poonen(Message given at the wedding of Santosh (my second son) and Meghan) God has given us only one Book. If we really believe that, we will look in that Book for instruction for everything in life. We read in the Bible that it was God Who ordained marriage for man. He was the One who first thought of it... Read More
Zac Poonen

(God-Centered Praying) 8. Freedom from Evil

Zac Poonen"Do not lead us into temptation but deliver us from evil" There are two sides to this petition - one, asking God to protect us, and the other, asking Him to deliver us. Having prayed for deliverance from the guilt of sin in the previous petition, we now pray for deliverance from the power of sin. If... Read More
Zac Poonen

(Sex, Love & Marriage) 5. Two Shall Become One

Zac PoonenOne wonders whether there is anything more beautiful this side of Heaven, than the sight of a Christian husband and wife, different from each other in so many ways yet blending together to form one harmonious unit. One finds in such couples the true unity in diversity that God intended to be manifes... Read More
Zac Poonen

(Sex, Love & Marriage) 6. Finding Your Better Half

Zac PoonenGod alone can lead you to the person best suited to be your life-partner. In fact He is eager to do so if you will listen to Him. The Bible teaches that God has a plan for the lives of each of His children (Ephesians 2:10). If that is true, then you cannot but believe that God has already planned wh... Read More
Zac Poonen

Be Diligent to Preserve the Unity of the Spirit in the Bond of Peace

Zac Poonen"Two can accomplish more than twice as much as one, for the results can be much better. If one falls, the other pulls him up; but if a man falls when he is alone, he's in trouble.....And one standing alone can be attacked and defeated, but two can stand back-to-back and conquer; three is even better... Read More
George Whitefield

The Necessity and Benefits of Religious Society

George WhitefieldEccles. 4:9-12, "Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe be to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up. Again, if two lie together, then they have heat; but how can one be w... Read More
R. Stanley

Joy of the Lord

The Bible repeatedly commands us to “rejoice in the Lord” (Phil 3:1; 4:4). These are actually the words Apostle Paul wrote from inside the prison to the Christians in Philippi. It’s usually the visitors to prisons who would encourage the inmates. But here we see the other way round! That’s what poin... Read More
J.C. Philpot

Confiding Trust and Patient Submission

J.C. PhilpotPreached at North Street Chapel, Stamford, on Lord's Day Morning, Sept. 19, 1858 "Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy; when I fall I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the Lord shall be a light unto me. I will bear the indignation of the Lord, because I have sinned against him, until he plead my ... Read More
Thomas Watson

The Lord's Prayer 7. The Sixth Petition in the Lord's Prayer

Thomas Watson'And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.' Matt 6: 13. This petition consists of two parts. First, Deprecatory, Lead us not into temptation.' Secondly, Petitionary, But deliver us from evil.' I. Lead us not into temptation.' Does God lead into temptation? God tempts no man to sin. ... Read More

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