"For Such A Time As This" (Esther 4:14)
TRUSTING GOD IN TIMES OF PERIL
Human life is inherently precious. Man was created by God in the image and likeness of God, crowned with glory and honor such that we would know and be known by God, love and be loved by God, enjoy and be enjoyed by God, not as divine equals but as beloved children, trusting in the […]
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In my previous post I began to look at Jesus’ imperative statement in John 4:24 regarding our worship of God, our acknowledgement and pursuit of Him as the object of our deepest love and source of our greatest joy. In this passage Jesus states that “God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship
The worship of our infinitely glorious God comes to life for us in the book of Revelation wherein we are given a portal into the spiritual world to see, through apocalyptic symbolism, that Heaven is a place of unending worship of God by both the Holy angels and most importantly by those men and women
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The conclusion of the 2024 Olympics in Paris was marked by singing of the “great” American anthem exalting human autonomy, self-determination, self-will and ultimately self-worship, namely the Frank Sinatra classic, My Way. This was of course after having in the opening ceremony, a blasphemous parody of Leonardo da Vincci’s “The Last Supper”, a painting depicting
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One of the more interesting and enlightening interactions Jesus has with a person during His three plus year ministry on earth is found in John 4:1-42. Here we have Jesus initiating a public interaction with a woman, and not any woman but a Samaritan woman. His doing so would have made this a highly scandalous
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The above title is not an invitation to behold – to gaze intently upon – to give full attention to the object of our worship, although this would be most appropriate if the object of our worship is Jesus Christ (John 1:14) (Hebrews 12:2) (Colossians 3:1-2). In fact, it is only in beholding Him that
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O’ come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the Lord, our Maker! Psalm 95:6 Mankind was created in the image of God to be worshipers of God – of the one true God – to pursue and experience our greatest joy, our greatest pleasure, our ultimate satisfaction and significance in knowing
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(The following was first posted in July 2020) The term glory is a term rarely used or understood in our modern society. Its dictionary definition is that of effulgence (brightness or outshining of an object such as a star); the weightiness or value of an object, event or person; the measure of someone or something’s
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(The following was first posted in July 2020) “O that a new man would rise up within me and conquer the man that I am.” Author Unknown The above is a quote I heard or read a number of years ago. I don’t remember the context in which I heard or read it and have
A number of years ago I was reading or listening to an interview with Joni Eareckson Tada, a Christian author, artist and singer, who had been paralyzed from the neck down in a diving accident at age 17. Her story is one of growing from deep anger and bitterness toward God to being able to,
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