“Loving a holy God is beyond our moral power. The only kind of God we can love by our sinful nature is an unholy god, an idol made by our own hands. Unless we are born of the Spirit of God, unless God sheds His holy love in our hearts, unless He stoops in His grace to change our hearts, we will not love Him… To love a holy God requires grace, grace strong…
Everything was pretty much back to normal, and that is a beautiful thing! The songs and hymns were God honoring, the gospel was proclaimed. There is nothing like the coming together of believers to worship the God we love and to proclaim our Savior the Lord Jesus Christ who died for our sins. I’m reminded of a verse I just read yesterday in 1 Peter 2:5 when Peter says we are living stones being built…
You might be expecting What I Learned In Church This Week, that will start back up next week as I have been away from Church the last few weeks… I’m still learning and that’s the important thing. I have many times tried to read through the bible from Genesis to the book of Revelation, only to just to fizzle out, but a few weeks ago I started a reading plan that I really like…
I remember when I first came to Grace Church and did something that was a little bit rare in those days, that is I preached for an hour, Sunday morning and Sunday night, sometimes even longer than that. There are some sermons on record that went an hour and thirty minutes and maybe a couple an hour and 45 minutes. And I remember a person saying to me, and the question came up a…
This past week in Church was a Romans, Galatians and Philippians kind of day, as my Pastor is preaching through the book of Galatians and our Sunday School class was filled with references from Galatians and Philippians as we are taking up Abraham in Romans 4 and the doctrine of justification… Then you throw in the book of Jonah in another Sunday school class… I don’t know about you, but when the Church of Jesus…
May Your love be the daily theme of my meditations, and the constant joy of my heart! I hope this would be the prayer of our hearts as we go to fellowship on todays Lord’s Day and worship the One we love! This precious value, then, is for you who believe; but for those who disbelieve, “The stone which the builders rejected, This became the very corner stone,” 1 Peter 2:7 O blessed Jesus, Your love…
This morning while studying the bible and the topic of angels with a group of men that meet at my house, I couldn’t help wondering if we learn anything from these angels,… Yesterday I posted on the holiness of God from R.C Sproul and Isaiah 6:3 where the angels praise and worship God singing “Holy, Holy, Holy, is the LORD of hosts, The whole earth is full of His glory.” Then we read in…
The worship was so God honoring and Christ exalting … We have a passionate worship leader who is dedicated to the Lord and to leading and directing the redeemed in our church with songs… While I was singing the hymns and songs I couldn’t help thinking about this truth found Ephesians 5 where we see that the redeemed are spirit filled people who sing collectively to each other and who love to sing praises to…
And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose. 29 For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brethren; 30 and these whom He predestined, He also called; and these whom He called, He also justified; and these…
As to public prayers, there are two kinds: the one consists of words alone; the other includes music. And this is no recent invention. For since the very beginning of the church it has been this way, as we may learn from history books. Nor does St. Paul himself speak only of prayer by word of mouth, but also of singing. And in truth, we know from experience that song has a great power…
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