"For Such A Time As This" (Esther 4:14)
TRUSTING GOD IN TIMES OF PERIL
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 […]
Called, predestined, elect, and chosen are all words found in the Bible, particularly in the New Testament. Throughout church history these terms have created a controversy that was ultimately crystallized into two theological schools of thought regarding how one obtains the benefits of Jesus’ redeeming work, namely what is referred to as Arminianism and the
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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
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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
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The Bible reveals that mankind, beginning with Adam and Eve, was created, body and soul, in the image and likeness of God, in perfect conformity to the glory of His righteous nature and character in our inner man, while manifesting the beauty and excellencies of His infinitely glorious being in our physical bodies. As such,
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Most businesses, organizations and individual contractors have what are referred to as a “mission statement”, which are essentially written statements of purpose – of why they exist, who they serve, and the expected outcome of their service. They are typically written to inspire in the consumer or customer, confidence in their utilization of said services.
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What was the most wonderful gift you received as a kid? Mine was a Lionel Satellite Train I received for Christmas when I was about ten or eleven years old. It was an electric train having five cars, one of which was a satellite launcher that when the train started up, air blowing up from
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