A few things from the series confessing your sin… after I have confessed all my knowing sin in my life (ongoing) including my thought mind, How do I prepare my mind to approach God in study or in preparing a lesson and to learn… for me it’s Psalm 86 and much more prayer. I have to put God in His rightful place You alone are God and that’s just the way it is. Psalm…
This is played by Glenn Gould, in my opinion one of the best pianists who plays Bach.
“A faithful dog barks at the first sound of a thief and risks his own life to protect his master’s life and his family-shall the church be plundered by the thieving of the ungodly, shall God’s majesty be stamped under foot, shall Christ be robbed of his own kingdom, while we watch and say nothing?” John Calvin
“But if you will not do so, behold, you have sinned against the LORD, and be sure your sin will find you out. Numbers 32:23 When I first read this verse it was a frightening experience for me I mean, my hidden sin in my life is seen… by who ? surely nobody knows… who can read my thought mind ? who can look at my heart ? over and over I would ask…
To whom ought confession of sin to be made? I enter on this branch of the subject with sorrowful feelings. I approach it as a sailor would approach some rock on which many gallant ships have made shipwreck. I cannot forget that I have arrived at a point on which millions of so-called Christians have erred greatly, and millions are erring at the present day. But I dare not keep back anything that is…
Woe is me, for I am ruined would be consider a really bad place to be… but for many of us it is just where we need to be. Isaiah was confronted with how holy God is and he realised just how sinful he was. A. W. Tozer who said in his book Knowledge of the Holy “What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us” Isaiah said He is…
If you are anything like me you probable run right into bible study, prayer and worship without preparing your heart and mind to come before the living Holy God. So I want to deal with all this in the next few post. I came to realize that my study was weak, my prayers were self-centered and my worship was about me. That all had to change. I had to understand that God is Holy…
Today is officially the first day of summer and I am thankful for the beautiful weather the Lord has given us. Sometimes I just need to take a few minutes and thank God for the little things like great weather, I know I often take that for granted. I have found it is very hard to be negative throughout the day if you are constantly reminding yourself of all the great things that Christ…
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