“The church is not a building made with stone. It is a building made with living flesh. We believers are living stones in God’s temple (1 Peter 2:5), and when we come together we constitute a place of worship where God manifests Himself in ways that He cannot manifest Himself when we are alone. Believers become the living temple of God, offering to Him spiritual sacrifices not possible anywhere other than in the assembly…
Remembering Halloween Christian or The Reformation on October 31 I love these words from Martin Luther “Here I Stand” When I hear them I always think of 1 Corinthians 16:13 Be on the alert, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong. Martin Luther did just that… Here are some Selected Works of Martin Luther. The 95 Thesis… Out of love and concern for the truth, and with the object of…
Here is a great piece by Vivaldi that will get your blood pumping this morning. Enjoy.
Lately it seems I have engaged in conversations about predestination and foreknowledge, it seems to always come up, whether in Sunday school or with the group of men that meet at my house on Saturday mornings to study theology proper or just getting a phone call to help a brother or sister to understand better… And as we try to understand and know God better we read things like this in His word. Acts…
AMBITION is an enemy to peace in the church- “Diotrephes loves to have the pre-eminence,” and that fellow has spoiled many a happy church. It is of no use finding fault because some may have a little pre-eminence. After all, what is the pre-eminence? It is the pre-eminence of one little animalcule over another. Look in a drop of water. One of these little fellows is five times larger than another- I dare say…
The overall question this week in Church from Sunday school and from behind the pulpit was… Does God want us, those of us who believe happy? Does He want to give us everything we need and want? Or does He want us to be obedient and holy? I love when Sunday school and the sermon preached say the same thing. I always say to people God never-never promises us a rose garden, BUT He…
Two week ago I shared the The Glorious Gospel… Last week I shared The Gospel Satisfies the Sinner’s Need. So this week we have The Gospel Satisfies God’s Demands Romans 3:25-31 whom God displayed publicly as a propitiation in His blood through faith. This was to demonstrate His righteousness, because in the forbearance of God He passed over the sins previously committed; 26 for the demonstration, I say, of His righteousness at the present time,…
In the Danger Zone: Raising Our Children in the Age of the Screen… By Albert Mohler… Christian parents must be concerned, not just with what content children are watching, but how much exposure they really experience. Something has gone wrong when the default position of the television is on, rather than off. Read the rest Here Last week I mentioned The Reformation and the Men Behind It by Steve Lawson… Here is Prince of…
I am doing a lesson this Sunday on truth and came across this article. Hope you enjoy. Sometimes the slogan “All truth is God’s truth” is used to justify dealing in any sphere of knowledge as an act of worship or stewardship. The impression is given that just knowing God’s truth and recognizing it as such is a good thing, even a worthy end. But the problem with this is that the devil does…
I was listening to R.C. Sproul’s lecture series on Predestination via podcast, and he mentioned The Westminster Confession of Faith I have read it before but decided to read chapter 3 again and here is what it said with Scripture references. BTW those of you in the Romans Study… Take notes! Of God’s Eternal Decree Chapter 3 1. God, from all eternity, did, by the most wise and holy counsel of his own will,…
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