The Lord said to Abram: Go from your land, your relatives, and your father’s house to the land that I will show you. I will make you into a great nation, I will bless you, I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing. I will bless those who …
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Getting Job-ed Part 4: Affliction.
Getting Job-ed Part 4: Affliction. In this part, we start to dive deeper into what this book is about. We see that Job is afflicted by Satan, but all within the Sovereignty of God.
Read More »Advent Day 4: In the Garden
Whoever makes a practice of sinning is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil. 1 John 3:8 ESV This may seem like a strange advent article, but I think it’s …
Read More »Advent Day Three: In the Beginning
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light …
Read More »Advent Day One: Prepare Him Room
Let Every Heart Prepare Him Room. –Joy to the World, Isaac Watts, 1719 Happy first day of Advent (days leading up to Christ’s first coming)! We will be releasing an Advent study every day leading up to December 25th. So let’s jump in. We tend to make excuses about how …
Read More »Getting Job-ed Part 3: God and Satan
Getting Job-ed Part 3: God and Satan. In this part, we will explore the two sets of dialogs seen in Job 2-3 between God and Satan. These dialogs should make us question our longstanding views and begin to reshape our concepts of: 1. God and His Sovereignty 2. Satan …
Read More »Christians, it’s Time to Mature
But I, brothers and sisters, could not address you as spiritual people, but as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ. I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you were not ready for it. And even now you are not yet ready, for you are still of the flesh. …
Read More »Getting Job-ed Part 2: Who is Job?
Getting Job-ed Part 2: Who is Job? We will be continuing our video series following the Bible study Getting Job-ed. This will be Getting Job-ed Part 2: Who is Job? In this part, we will explore who Job is and a little bit about him. We will be focusing on the …
Read More »Getting Job-ed Part 1
This will be Part 1 of the series looking at the Bible study Getting Job-ed. We will be looking at doing this video series weekly, God-willing! Feel free to leave comments on youtube, we’ll just ask to keep them civil. We hope that it does spark some conversation and thoughts! …
Read More »Falling Forward: Reflections on a Culture of Deconstructing Christianity
Examine yourselves, to see whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Or do you not realize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you fail to meet the test! 2 Corinthians 13:5 English Standard Bible There’s a big movement within our culture of deconstructing institutions and …
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