Growth Is From the Lord
The Shepherd’s Example (11) Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers through whom you believed, as the Lord gave to each one? I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the increase. So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase.. 1 Corinthians 3.5-7 Hildegard of Bingen […]
Commerce Corrupting
Kingdom Commerce (6) Then He taught, saying to them, “Is it not written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations’? But you have made it a ‘den of thieves.’” Mark 11.17 A cancerous corruptionOnce corruption has found its way into an economy, it grows and spreads. Wherever greed supplants grace as […]
Saved for God and His Glory
Our readings in this series are from the book, Such a Great Salvation. Here is a brief excerpt from page 59: “As believers, we understand that the end of our salvation—the ultimate reason why we have been saved—is that God may be glorified, that the riches of His wisdom, goodness, love, mercy, and power might be on […]
Dead
Ephesians 2.1-10 (1) Pray Psalm 18.1-3.I will love You, O LORD, my strength.The LORD is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer;My God, my strength, in whom I will trust;My shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.I will call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised;So shall I be saved from my enemies. Sing Psalm 18.1-3.(St. Columba: How […]
The Whole Duty of Mankind
There is one thing that deserves my greatest care, that calls forth my ardent desires, that is, that I may answer the great end for which I am made – to glorify thee who hast given me being, and to do all the good I can for my fellow men.
Getting Serious
Acts 2:29–36 (ESV) “Brothers, I may say to you with confidence about the patriarch David that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day. Being therefore a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him that he would set one of his descendants on […]