Equipping the Saints
Pray for Your Church: Leaders (5) And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ… Ephesians 4.11, 12 Order of operationsEphesians 4.11 and 12 circles back to the foundational elements that pertain to […]
Life Longing
“…knowing, beloved brethren, your election by God. For our gospel…” (1 Thess. 1:3-4, NKJV) Before I came to Christ I had heard something of the gospel many times. I attended church where the Bible was read and Jesus featured. Because of a girl I fancied, I attended a Christian group on college campus and a […]
The Good News of Wrath
Jesus throughout the Scriptures: Pre-exilic Prophets 4 (5)Pray Psalm 147.1.Praise the LORD!For it is good to sing praises to our God;For it is pleasant, and praise is beautiful.Sing Psalm 147.1.(St. Anne: Our God, Our Help in Ages Past)Praise God, for it is good to sing loud praises to the LORD!With joy our songs of praise we bring to God and to His […]
Keeping to God’s Course
Our readings in this series are from the book, The Church Captive. Here is a brief excerpt from pages 70, 71: “In our brief survey, we have seen that, in nearly every age of Church history, segments of the Body of Christ have failed to recognize and resist deceitful winds of doctrine, and have consigned themselves and their […]
Stations of the Cross #7: Jesus Takes Up His Cross
We, whose lives were lost under the power of sin, have been recovered by the Messiah, who came to redeem us by embracing his own cross.
Insults
Luke 11:14–20 (ESV) Now he was casting out a demon that was mute. When the demon had gone out, the mute man spoke, and the people marveled. But some of them said, “He casts out demons by Beelzebul, the prince of demons,” while others, to test him, kept seeking from him a sign from heaven. […]