"For Such A Time As This" (Esther 4:14)
TRUSTING GOD IN TIMES OF PERIL
“You will surely die”. This was the gracious, but foreboding warning God had given Adam in the garden paradise where He and Adam lived together in perfect fellowship, a warning that Adam would share with his wife and helpmate Eve who would subsequently join them (Genesis 2:21-25). It was a warning of the penalty they […]
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We are told in Wikipedia that there are around 10,000 religions in this world, of which the Christian religion is identified as one of the four major religions along with Islam, Hinduism and Buddhism. It defines religion as “a range of social-cultural systems, including designated behaviors and practices, ethics, morals, beliefs, worldviews, tests, sanctified (holy)
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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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It is once again the “Christmas Season”, a season that historically centered on the celebration of Jesus Christ, and His coming into this world some 2000 years ago. We see in front of churches, homes and in city squares representations of His humble birth in a stable, with Him lying in a manger below the
We live in a competitive world. Men and women compete for positions of power and influence in nations, states and cities. They compete for championships, both team and individual, in sports, and for awards and honors in the entertainment field. And although most of them provide little benefit to us directly, we praise and exalt
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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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The setting is the inner belly of an extremely large fish. It is an inescapable prison soon to be the tomb of an Old Testament prophet named Jonah, unless God graciously and miraculously intervenes (Jonah 1:17). Jonah got himself into this predicament after blatantly and purposefully disobeying the LORD’s call to him to go to Nineveh,
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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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