John 17:3 “This is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and the one you have sent — Jesus Christ.” CSB What do you think it means to know God when you read this verse? Does it mean to know of God, like how we …
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Three Reasons why God’s Sovereignty and Providence are Good News for Us
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: …
Read More »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 »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 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 …
Read More »Advent Day 15: Isaiah
Then he said to them, “These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled.” Luke 24:44 We have to constantly be breaking the mentality that the …
Read More »Advent Day 13: The King is Coming
When your days are fulfilled and you lie down with your fathers, I will raise up your offspring after you, who shall come from your body, and I will establish his kingdom. He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. I will …
Read More »Advent Day 10: A Prophet Like Moses
“The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your brothers—it is to him you shall listen…” Deuteronomy 18:15 ESV Moses is an Old Testament heavy-weight contender. Jesus comes on to the scene and says that Moses and the Prophets wrote about Him (Luke …
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