"For Such A Time As This" (Esther 4:14)

"For Such A Time As This" (Esther 4:14)

Sin

The “Unholiness” of Sin

A number of years ago, I was conducting a Saturday evening chapel service at Grace Centers of Hope, a residential ministry to those struggling with homelessness and drug addiction.  I began the service by offering ten dollars to the first person who could tell me what the number one cause of death in the United

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HE is HOLY

One of the more concerning and disturbing events in the Bible is found in Leviticus 10:1-3, involving the two eldest sons of Aaron, Nadab and Abihu.  They had recently been consecrated, set apart by God as priests who would intercede for the people of Israel, offering prayer and sacrifices according to God’s specific instructions found

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“Only A Holy God”

There was a controversial, yet well intentioned commercial that ran in the first quarter of this year’s “Super Bowl”. It was a one-minute string of 12 dramatized photos, depicting various types of people washing the feet of others, with related background music (John 13:1-17).  At the end of it are flashed the words: “Jesus Didn’t

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…and We Beheld HIS Glory…

Our desire and ability to behold the glory of God, the outshining of the infinite perfections of His eternal being as it is revealed in the person and work of God the Son, Jesus Chris, is the ultimate reason for and the instrumental means of our salvation (2 Corinthians 4:4-6) (Hebrews 1:1-3). It is our

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The Glory of the LORD

It seemed to be a quiet, ordinary night in the little Podunk-backwater town of Bethlehem, located about six miles south of the glorious capital city of Israel, Jerusalem, the site of the Jewish Temple. A teenage couple, we know them as Mary and Joseph, after about a week of rugged travel from Nazareth had arrived in

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