"For Such A Time As This" (Esther 4:14)
TRUSTING GOD IN TIMES OF PERIL
There was a controversial, yet well intentioned commercial that ran in the first quarter of this year’s “Super Bowl”. It was a one-minute string of 12 dramatized photos, depicting various types of people washing the feet of others, with related background music (John 13:1-17). At the end of it are flashed the words: “Jesus Didn’t […]
What is the will of God for my life? As a Christian, who has been adopted by God as my Father, and having submitted my life to Jesus Christ as my Lord, God’s will – doing that which pleases, honors and glorifies Him, should be at the center of all that I/we do (Romans 8:15-17)
Our desire and ability to behold the glory of God, the outshining of the infinite perfections of His eternal being as it is revealed in the person and work of God the Son, Jesus Chris, is the ultimate reason for and the instrumental means of our salvation (2 Corinthians 4:4-6) (Hebrews 1:1-3). It is our
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It seemed to be a quiet, ordinary night in the little Podunk-backwater town of Bethlehem, located about six miles south of the glorious capital city of Israel, Jerusalem, the site of the Jewish Temple. A teenage couple, we know them as Mary and Joseph, after about a week of rugged travel from Nazareth had arrived in
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There is presently a commercial on television for a personal heart monitor that can provide an individual with a medical grade EKG, the results of which can be sent immediately to their doctor. The commercial consists of a man on the street inquiring of those who pass by “how’s your heart?” Various responses are provided
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The Bible is God’s gracious self-revelation of His person and His purposes in creation. He reveals Himself as eternal spirit, unbounded by time and space, who created man for His glory – that the infinite perfections of His being, first displayed in the natural creation, would be most profoundly and purposefully displayed in His creation
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“…I will have mercy on whomever I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whomever I will have compassion.” (Romans 9:15) The above is one of the most controversial passages in the Bible yet is the foremost expression by God of His freedom to be God (Exodus 33:19), having the right and ability
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God’s self-revelation to Moses in Exodus 34:6-7 is referred to by one commentator as the “North Star” of the Bible, anchoring our hope in and guiding us to the one, Jesus Christ, who was sent by the Father of mercies into this world to manifest and magnify the glory of God’s mercy and grace, while upholding
In Praise of a MERCIFUL SAVIOR (Part 2) Read More »
“JUDGEMENT” What an ominous title and weighty subject for a blog post, particularly when it will be focused on God’s judgement, His judicial determination of mankind’s guilt in regard to our transgression of His righteous laws and commandments and the subsequent execution of His prescribed penalty for such transgression which is death, our being cut
I am interrupting my series of posts titled “A Divine and Supernatural Light” to address an “important” breaking news story regarding that exalted and essential media venue of television entertainment. There apparently has been much vitriol regarding a recent Jeopardy program in which this fill in the blank clue was given, “Our Father, who art
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