Just a quick thought from Church this week, in Sunday school while studying Romans we looked at Colossians 3:1-17 and I was drawn to verses 16 and 17 which read… 16 Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you, with all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with thankfulness in your hearts to God. 17 Whatever you do in word or deed, do all in…
Let’s open the Word of God to Zechariah chapter 12, Zechariah chapter 12. While you’re turning to Zechariah, he is quite a remarkable prophet, Zechariah. Prophesied in about 520 to 518. Prophesies after the Babylonian captivity is over and the people of Israel have been released from Babylon by Cyrus. They’ve come back to the land. He’s what we call a postexilic prophet. He’s prophesying to the people in the newly constituted nation of…
Spurgeon said “Preach, Preach, Preach Everywhere” You do not know who the elect are. You do not know whose heart will be broken by the divine hammer of truth. But it is your responsibility to use the divine hammer on the hard heart. And as the gospel is preached it will attract to itself, by its own power, through the Holy Spirit, those whom God has ordained unto eternal life.” “Is not My word like fire?” declares the Lord, “and…
The real issue with Mormonism…The real issue with Mormonism: “God is an exalted man” – by Dr. James White… God himself was once as we are now, and is an exalted man. . . . That is the great secret. . . . We have imagined and supposed that God was God from all eternity. I will refute that idea. . . . [H]e was once a man like us.” ~Joseph Smith… Read the…
Theologians call it the fifth gospel, John MacArthur thinks it should be the first gospel and Luther thinks every Christian should memorize it. It is one of the most quoted sections of the Old Testament and that would be Isaiah 53. Lately I have spent a lot of time in this chapter, but can not stop thinking about these three verses in Isaiah 53 (Isaiah 53:4-6) 4 Surely our griefs He Himself bore, And our…
But why should I rise early? Here are a few good reasons……. But as for me, I shall sing of Your strength; Yes, I shall joyfully sing of Your lovingkindness in the morning, For You have been my stronghold And a refuge in the day of my distress. Psalm 59:16 I rise before dawn and cry for help; I wait for Your words. Psalm 119:147 In the morning, O LORD, You will hear my voice;…
If I am going to be honest here, I wasn’t in Church, instead an ice pick was in me or at least that’s how my sinus headache felt when I woke up to start my day. I thought I would be able to get rid of it, but that didn’t happen. I can tell you this I missed being there and I really missed my Romans class and the fellowship of the saints… So…
From Grace To You…. For the last several years, we’ve had a front-row seat to a vicious, violent attack on one of the Lord’s most precious institutions. And make no mistake about it—the family, as established by the Lord, is under attack. The assault is waged on many fronts—homosexual marriage, pervasive immorality, rampant divorce, and even the widespread acceptance of unwed couples and children born outside of marriage. They all chip away at God’s…
“Cheap grace is preaching forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, Communion without confession. … Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate.” Dietrich Bonhoeffer The meaning in Greek… “If someone claims that the Greek says something that none of the translations say, dismiss their idea and walk away. Perhaps if they are commentary writers or scholars, their argument might have some validity; but I…
“Men of Israel, listen to these words: Jesus the Nazarene, a man attested to you by God with miracles and wonders and signs which God performed through Him in your midst, just as you yourselves know— this Man, delivered over by the predetermined plan and foreknowledge of God, you nailed to a cross by the hands of godless men and put Him to death. Acts 2:22, 23 All Christ’s sufferings on the cross were foreordained.…
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