"For Such A Time As This" (Esther 4:14)
TRUSTING GOD IN TIMES OF PERIL
The Bible reveals to us from Genesis to Revelation that God is good, that it is His essential nature and eternal disposition to be good; that all of His creation, all of His commandments, all of His promises, all of His providential actions throughout human history are expressions of His goodness – of His infinite […]
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In my previous post I began to look at Jesus’ imperative statement in John 4:24 regarding our worship of God, our acknowledgement and pursuit of Him as the object of our deepest love and source of our greatest joy. In this passage Jesus states that “God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship
The worship of our infinitely glorious God comes to life for us in the book of Revelation wherein we are given a portal into the spiritual world to see, through apocalyptic symbolism, that Heaven is a place of unending worship of God by both the Holy angels and most importantly by those men and women
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(The following was first posted in July 2020) The term glory is a term rarely used or understood in our modern society. Its dictionary definition is that of effulgence (brightness or outshining of an object such as a star); the weightiness or value of an object, event or person; the measure of someone or something’s
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(The following was first posted in July 2020) “O that a new man would rise up within me and conquer the man that I am.” Author Unknown The above is a quote I heard or read a number of years ago. I don’t remember the context in which I heard or read it and have
A number of years ago I was reading or listening to an interview with Joni Eareckson Tada, a Christian author, artist and singer, who had been paralyzed from the neck down in a diving accident at age 17. Her story is one of growing from deep anger and bitterness toward God to being able to,
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Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually (Genesis 6:5). The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. So, God looked upon the earth, and indeed it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their
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Delight yourself in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart (Psalm 37:4) Of all of the verses and passages in the Bible, of all of the exceeding great and precious promises from God found in the Bible (2 Peter 1:2-4), I cannot think of one more fascinating, more intriguing, more
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I no longer listen to “Classic Rock” stations, but when I did you could bet that the AC/DC classic, Highway to Hell, was on the playlist. Released in 1979, it instantly became a hit and has been used in numerous movie soundtracks since. It was rightly criticized for its glamorization of Hell as a desirable
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King Solomon is one of the most complex, paradoxical, but intriguing figures in the Bible. This son of King David, born to him by his marriage to Bathsheba, whom David previously had committed adultery with, was chosen by God, through David, to succeed him as King of Israel (1 Kings 1:28-30). Israel had been established
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