"For Such A Time As This" (Esther 4:14)
TRUSTING GOD IN TIMES OF PERIL
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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In the beginning, God graciously designed and spoke into existence a spectacular universe of awesome wonder, and a planet within that universe of astonishing beauty and splendor. The ever-expanding universe was to be the theater of His glory, at night providing a cosmic light show of stars and galaxies and comets shooting through the night
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There are times when I struggle greatly with my faith – not in my mind where I hold fast to the knowledge of the glorious gospel of grace, a knowledge which I have articulated in many if not most of my previous posts. My struggle is where it matters most, in my heart, the center
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The following was originally posted in October 2020. This post has a few minor revisions. I explained in a previous post, that the sovereignty of God is the Biblical teaching that all things that occur in the universe, our world and in our individual lives, are under God’s absolute rule and control, and that nothing
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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
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I now swing back from the soul sobering horror and despair of God’s certain, terrifying and just final judgment of man’s sin to the present hope and eternal joy found in God’s joyful display of divine mercy and grace in His forgiveness of that sin which we receive through faith in Jesus. (Psalm 103:8-17) (Hebrews
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The Universal Judgement is the title of a lengthy sermon preached by Samuel Davies, a sermon many consider to be one of the most vivid and biblically accurate presentations of God’s final judgement on mankind. Davies, an evangelist and Presbyterian minister, was one of the key contributors to American’s Great Awakening of the 18th Century
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“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