"For Such A Time As This" (Esther 4:14)
TRUSTING GOD IN TIMES OF PERIL
In my previous post, I looked briefly at the life of King David to see what ultimately made David a man after God’s own heart, and I suggested that it was his passionate, overwhelming desire to know and understand God at the deepest level of God’s being, His heart, for the purpose of being faithful […]
KNOWING GOD (Part 2) Read More »
Ecclesiastes 9:3 describes the desperate and dire condition of the rebellious human race in regard to our relationship with the infinitely glorious God who created us in His image and likeness to find our greatest joys, our greatest pleasures, our ultimate significance and fulfillment in knowing and loving and being loved by Him (Isaiah 43:7).
Rejoicing in the Hope of Christ’s Glory Read More »
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
…and We Beheld HIS Glory… Read More »
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
The Glory of the LORD Read More »
In the beginning, God graciously designed and spoke into existence a spectacular universe of awesome wonder, and a planet within that universe of astonishing beauty and splendor. The ever-expanding universe was to be the theater of His glory, at night providing a cosmic light show of stars and galaxies and comets shooting through the night
INGRATITUDE – The Original Sin? Read More »
There are times when I struggle greatly with my faith – not in my mind where I hold fast to the knowledge of the glorious gospel of grace, a knowledge which I have articulated in many if not most of my previous posts. My struggle is where it matters most, in my heart, the center
The Gospel of God’s Immense Love Read More »
The Bible is God’s gracious self-revelation of His person and His purposes in creation. He reveals Himself as eternal spirit, unbounded by time and space, who created man for His glory – that the infinite perfections of His being, first displayed in the natural creation, would be most profoundly and purposefully displayed in His creation
Divine Freedom Rejoiced In Read More »
God’s self-revelation to Moses in Exodus 34:6-7 is referred to by one commentator as the “North Star” of the Bible, anchoring our hope in and guiding us to the one, Jesus Christ, who was sent by the Father of mercies into this world to manifest and magnify the glory of God’s mercy and grace, while upholding
In Praise of a MERCIFUL SAVIOR (Part 2) Read More »
“JUDGEMENT” What an ominous title and weighty subject for a blog post, particularly when it will be focused on God’s judgement, His judicial determination of mankind’s guilt in regard to our transgression of His righteous laws and commandments and the subsequent execution of His prescribed penalty for such transgression which is death, our being cut
I love thinking about, writing about, singing about and teaching about God’s mercy. It is probably because I am essentially a poster child for it, as close to an expert on it as anyone can be as I have needed and received so much of it in the course of my sin-laden life. I have
The Justice and Judgement of God Read More »