From the survey last week, seven responses netted forty-nine words, including three of my own that were different than your lists. I asked for words from a Christian view that are important to our relationship with God and others. Over the weekend I wondered and...
We begin in Genesis 4:13 as it relates to punishment. Interestingly and profoundly, God’s Word makes reference to the bearing of our sins, its punishment, and its remedy. As we have highlighted these, let us look personally and take them to heart. H5375...
"For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother's womb. I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made:" Psalm 139:13-14 (Written years ago, this article was discovered in a notebook among many other notebooks. That I found it in...
In 1911, Julia H. Johnston wrote the text of the hymn Marvelous Grace (Grace That Is Greater Than All Our Sin). Marvelous grace of our loving Lord, Grace that exceeds our sin and our guilt! Yonder on Calvary’s mount outpoured, There where the blood of the Lamb was...
How amazing these last three days have been, and how blessed to see how God carries us through what He begins in us to where He wants us to be. When I write it is usually because I need to learn something new, or to confirm and shore up what I have been learning. Such...
“In the fifth petition we pray that God, for Christ’s sake, would freely pardon all our sins, which we are the rather encouraged to ask, because by His grace we are enabled from the heart to forgive others.” Shorter Catechism Forgiveness is a revolving grace that...
Was the whole world in crisis when God sent Jonah to Nineveh? It might have been, had God not saved that city. In this year of 2016, all nations are experiencing some kind of crisis, but especially here in the USA. At no other time in history have we seen such a...
He came to do the Father's will. In humility and obedience He fulfilled all requirements of the law. He personified the kingdom of God and His righteousness. He then was crucified, taking our sorriness upon Himself ~ ~ So that He might say, "Father, forgive them....
To benefit by all that Andrew Murray wrote on this subject we must each read this for ourselves. What I am attempting to do with this review of chapter 8 of Humility (PDF) is to combine this with Romans 5:12-21 after the preaching of our pastor’s August 31 sermon....