"For Such A Time As This" (Esther 4:14)
TRUSTING GOD IN TIMES OF PERIL
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 […]
In Praise of a MERCIFUL SAVIOR (Part 1) Read More »
As I am struggling with spiritual brain fog (my self-diagnosis) regarding the weighty matter of the complementary nature of the glory of God’s compassion, mercy and grace with the glory of His justice, judgement and wrath, I have decided to re publish a post from March 2021 with the above title (with some minor revisions),
The title to this post is the answer to the great question that has been at the center of many of my recent posts, namely how can a fallen man or woman, spiritually dead in trespasses and sin, following the course of this present evil world, following the prince of the power of the air (the
In Isaiah Chapter 2, we have the prophecy of the “Day of the Lord”, which typically refers to the time of God’s final judgement on a prideful, rebellious mankind (Isaiah 2:12). The horrors of that time are presented most clearly in Zephaniah 1:2-18, wherein Zephaniah 1:15 reveals that it “is a day of wrath…” From the time
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In June of this year, we “celebrated” Pride Month, which includes Pride Day, in which man’s opposition to God’s purpose for and rule over His creation and particularly His design and order for human flourishing and our individual happiness in Him, is openly flaunted with apparent impunity and the approval of much of our God-ignoring
The Apostle Paul makes an astonishing claim in Romans 3:11 when he writes that “there is none who seeks after God”. This is not the first time such a statement is recorded in the Bible as Paul is just acknowledging what was already revealed in Psalm 14:2-3 and Psalm 53:2-3. It also refers back to Romans
“A Divine and Supernatural Light” (Part 3) Read More »
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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Being the self-appointed source of all true biblical knowledge in my marriage, I proudly challenged my wife the other day to recite for me the first commandment ever issued by God and offered her $10.00 if she could do so on the first try. After some stuttering, she blurts out, LET THERE BE LIGHT, and
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The title to this post is taken from a sermon preached by Jonathan Edwards to his congregation in 1734, that he titled “A Divine and Supernatural Light, Immediately Imparted to the Soul by the Spirit of God, Shown to be Both Scriptural and Rational Doctrine”. It is both an exposition of and commentary on the
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In my previous post I looked at the proposition put forth by Pastor Brian Borgman and attested to by other Christian theologians such as Jonathan Edwards and John Piper, that the Bible reveals that all creation exists for and all of human/Biblical history centers around the revelation of the glory of God, the outshining of
It’s All About HIM – ad infinitum Read More »