Austin Rankin
Featured, God, Theology
Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways! “For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who has been his counselor?” “Or who has given a gift to him that he might be repaid?” For from him and through …
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Austin Rankin
Featured, God, Good Practice
“…remember the former things of old; for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me, declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times things not yet done, saying, ‘My counsel shall stand, and I will accomplish all my purpose…’” Isaiah …
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Austin Rankin
Culture, Featured, Jesus
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.” John 13:34-35 ESV We’ve talked about this in …
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Austin Rankin
Affliction, Featured, God, Jesus, Joy
Getting Job-ed Q&A This is the conclusion of the Getting Job-ed Bible Study. These will be the questions we had at the end of the book and also a couple of extra that were asked and that we added. We encourage you to go back to some of the earlier …
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Austin Rankin
Affliction, Culture, Featured, God
Now this is the commandment—the statutes and the rules—that the Lord your God commanded me to teach you, that you may do them in the land to which you are going over, to possess it, that you may fear the Lord your God, you and your son and your son’s son, by keeping all his …
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Austin Rankin
Uncategorized
Getting Job-ed Part 8: Job (Conclusion) In this part, we’ll end the study in the Book of Job by seeing what Job’s response is to God. This is what Job has been waiting for in the whole book: to address God face-to-face.
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Austin Rankin
Affliction, Featured, God, Theology
Getting Job-ed Part 7: God In this part, we will see that God is now speaking for Himself to Job and his friends. He is picking up right where Elihu left off. God is getting at the heart of Job’s issue that has become prevalent in the Book of Job: …
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Austin Rankin
Advent, Featured, God, Jesus
O Come let us Adore Him… – O Come All Ye Faithful, 1751, John Francis Wade Christ is the Lord, then ever! ever praise we! His power and glory, evermore proclaim!- O Holy Night, 1843, Placide Cappeau and Adolphe Adam Christmas is about worship. We worship and admire anything and …
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Austin Rankin
Advent, Featured, God, Jesus, Joy, Theology
And she gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in swaddling cloths and laid him in a manger, because there was no place for them in the inn… He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him. Luke 2:7 and John 1:11 ESV …
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Austin Rankin
Advent, Featured, God, Jesus, Joy, Theology
But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities, upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned—every one—to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity …
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