Proverbs My son, do not despise the chastening of the LORD,
Nor detest His correction;
For whom the LORD loves He corrects,
Just as a father the son in whom he delights.
The Word For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
What do people expect from Jesus? What type of Savior is He? A week earlier the same group of people were heralding Him by shouting “Hosanna!” But one week later we read…”Pilate said to them, ‘Then what shall I do with Jesus who is called Christ?’ They all said, “Crucify Him!” [..more..]
Continuing our series that explores and highlights the consequences of not preaching expositionally.
It robs people of their only true source of help.
People who sit under superficial preaching become dependent on the cleverness and the creativity of the speaker. When preachers punctuate their sermons with laser lights and smoke, video clips [..more..]
In the last article I looked at the way in which the promises of God made to Abraham were to be inherited by those who are truly his children, namely those who have faith in God as Abraham did, and as a result was accredited to him as righteousness in the sight of God [..more..]
Jeremy Walker at The Wanderer with a thought provoking post on the image of God in mankind.
Football (read soccer if you are from the US) fans will be deeply troubled by the news that filtered through from White Hart Lane earlier this evening. During the course of the match, just before half-time, the [..more..]
Pseudo-sovereignty reveals itself in apprehension, whereby the bewildered Christian soberly calculates himself to be a living contradiction—a spiritual schizophrenic—rather than a living sacrifice; one moment he affirms the sovereignty and Providence of God, and in the next instant he is annoyed by both. Born into [..more..]
Why is a fundamentally religious idea, a dogmatic belief system that fails to explain the evidence, taught in science classes? Karl Popper, famous philosopher of science, said “Darwinism is not a testable scientific theory, but a metaphysical [religious] research programme ….”1 Michael Ruse, evolutionist science philosopher admitted, “Evolution is a religion. This was true [..more..]
34 So Peter opened his mouth and said: “Truly I understand that God shows no partiality, 35 but in every nation anyone who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him. 36 As for the word that he sent to Israel, preaching good news of peace through Jesus Christ ( he is Lord [..more..]
Were it not for grace we could accomplish nothing, “For I will not trust in my bow, nor will my sword save me” (Psalm 44:6). At the dawn the servant of the LORD of Hosts clothes himself with the armour of God and his trust is in He who is righteous, and [..more..]