"For Such A Time As This" (Esther 4:14)
TRUSTING GOD IN TIMES OF PERIL
In my previous post I looked at King David’s writing in the Psalms of his deep affections for the “law of the LORD (YAHWEH)” or “law of God” (Psalm 1:1-3) (Psalm 19:7-11) (Psalm 119:1-97). I noted that what he was referring to as “law” were the truths and instructions revealed in the first five books […]
The beginning of a new year is typically a time when we make what are referred to as New Year’s resolutions. A resolution is a firm decision, a strong determination, an unwavering promise we make to ourselves or to others of our intent to live differently – to accomplish certain goals and objectives that we
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The Protestant Reformation was a religious movement that began in the 16th century, aiming to reform the beliefs and practices of the Roman Catholic Church that saw salvation as requiring both faith and men’s good works, including compliance with the Church’s sacramental system for man to be made right with God. This was contrary to the
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“Salvation” – the act of being saved, is a big word in terms of what it encompasses in both the dictionary definition and what it represents in the Bible. It is defined in the dictionary as the state or experience of being rescued from peril or danger, protected from harm or kept from calamity, loss
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I would have lost heart unless I had believed that I would see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living. Psalm 27:13 Grace – the free and lavish expression of the goodness of the LORD is the most glorious doctrine/truth in the Bible other than the doctrine of God himself. Apart
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The link below is to a sermon that I have listened to a number of times over the past few days and found it both enlightening and encouraging to my soul regarding the evil events in our nation over the past few weeks and the plight of living in this present evil age/world, a world Jesus
I would have lost heart unless I had believed that I would see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living. Psalm 27:13 In my previous post I looked at King David’s many proclamations throughout the Book of Psalms of the goodness of the LORD in general, as well as his innumerable
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“I would have lost heart unless I had believed that I would see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living” Psalm 27:13 Psalm 27, from which the above passage was taken, was written by King David, Israels greatest King, through whose kingly lineage came the eternal messianic king, the LORD Jesus
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In Exodus 33 we have the account of the aftermath of the golden calf event of Exodus 32, in which Israel, after being miraculously rescued from slavery in Egypt by the LORD God, and graciously brought into covenant relationship with Him (Exodus 6:7), almost immediately and blatantly violate the covenant conditions, namely the first three
“The LORD, The LORD God” Read More »
In Genesis Chapters 2-3 we have the LORD God revealing Himself to Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden as gracious creator; the one who designed and made of all of the beauty and wonder that surrounded them, all of which is given to them to freely enjoy and exercise dominion over. Most gloriously
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