In the last article, we took a look at some of the historic church stances on the concept of Providence, now I want us to actually look at why this doctrine is good news for us. I think growth in our walk with God in this doctrine comes in stages: …
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No One can Tame God!
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 …
Read More »Why Study the Old Testament?
“…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 …
Read More »Getting Job-ed Q&A
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 …
Read More »How are the New Year Resolutions Going?
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 …
Read More »Getting Job-ed Part 7: God
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: …
Read More »Advent Day 24: The King is Worshiped
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 …
Read More »Advent Day 22: No Room in the Inn
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 …
Read More »Advent Day 20: It Pleased Yahweh to Crush Him
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 …
Read More »Advent Day 17: Ezekiel
I will seek the lost, and I will bring back the strayed, and I will bind up the injured, and I will strengthen the weak, and the fat and the strong I will destroy. I will feed them in justice… And I will set up over them one shepherd, my …
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