On Easter Sunday, John Calvin refused community leaders communion because of mistresses. They responded by rushing the communion table. He responded: “Over my dead body.” They backed off but in the afternoon they exiled him. One year and a half years later they asked him back. When he ascended to the pulpit he began on the very next verse he had ended with when he was kicked out. He loved and trusted God’s Word. We are a...
GOD-GLORIFYING MARRIAGES: A BIBLICAL PLAN TO GLORIFY GOD BY FINDING JOY IN OUR MARRIAGES Ruth Graham was once asked is she had every thought about divorcing Billy. She responded, “Divorce no. Murder, yes.” “Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but...
“I asked for power that I might have the praise of men; I was given weakness that I might feel the need of God.” Taken from a Confederate Soldier’s Prayer The spiritual battle we fight is long and hard. We just can’t win it alone. Thankfully, God has given us a host of helps to take us through to final victory. Support for his troops includes a group of seasoned veterans,...
HOW TO FIND JOY IN THE HEALING OF BROKEN RELATIONSHIPS Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, brawling and slander, along with every form of malice. Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you. Eph. 4:31-32 Do not pray for easy lives, pray to be stronger people. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers, pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no...
THE SUPERIORITY OF GOD’S BOOK To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, “If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” John 8:31-32There is something about human nature that accepts over time the most controversial of change but would be appalled at the same innovation being abruptly introduced. I think the enemy...
THE EXCELLENCY OF GOD’S WORD “I delight in your decrees; I will not neglect your Word.” Ps 119:16 “Would it not be an encouragement to a subject, to hear his prince say to him, “You will honor and please me very much, if you will go to yonder mine of gold, and dig as much gold for yourself as you can carry away?” So for God to say, “Go to the ordinances, get...
The Authority of God’s BOOK 2 Timothy 3:16-17, All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work . “We owe to Scripture the same reverence as we owe God, since it has as its only source in him and has nothing of human origin mixed with it.” –John Calvin OUR PURPOSE: God’s speaks in creation, in history, in miracles, in...
THE CENTRALITY OF CHRIST AND THE WORD John 5:39-40, “You diligently study the Scriptures because you think that by them you possess eternal life. These are the Scriptures that testify about me, yet you refuse to come to me to have life.” “We were made to know and treasure the glory of God above all things; and when we trade that treasure for images, everything is disordered. The sun of...
The Sufficiency of God’s Word: Part Two “I hate and abhor falsehood but I love your law. Seven times a day I praise you for your righteous laws. Great peace have they who love your law and nothing can make them stumble.” Ps 119:163-165 “On the far side of every risk-even if it results in death-the love of God triumphs. This is the faith that frees us to risk for...
The Sufficiency of God’s Word “Jesus replied, ‘Are you not in error because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God?’” Mark 12:24 “In the beginning of this century the battle was over the inerrancy of the Scriptures. Today it is over the sufficiency of the Scriptures.” – Dr. James Boice Our Purpose: God’s Word is sufficient. God speaks and accomplishes...
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