We are continuing to read through Heaven Taken by Storm together. You can find our reading plan and links to previous posts here. https://open.spotify.com/episode/1T3GQ4qAk6lBWeLiaPnqj9?si=FJMDUt9rTl6XIZX3Gc9fDw Chapter Seventeen Outline Hindrance #1 – Take heed of unbelief. Hindrance #2 – Take heed of puzzling thoughts about election. Hindrance #3 – Take heed of too much violence after the world. Hindrance #4 …
I typically compile some snapshot background information at the beginning of whichever book I am studying, not the end. Yet between a prologue sermon and another spent entirely on the first two verses, I never made such a post for Paul's letter to the Ephesians, until now (better late than never, right?). Much of this …
So that you also may know how I am and what I am doing, Tychicus the beloved brother and faithful minister in the Lord will tell you everything. I have sent him to you for this very purpose, that you may know how we are, and that he may encourage your hearts. Peace be to …
My soul is consumed with longingfor your rules at all times. Psalm 119:20 ESV Because each of Psalm 119's twenty-two stanzas contains eight verses, we conclude the first half of gimel with our meditation upon this verse. The relationship between the two lines of this verse is much more immediate than many of the ones …
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In The Whole Armor of God, Duguid concludes with a chapter on how prayer features into spiritual warfare. In the following quotation, he speaks on how the Spirit helps us to rest in God as our Father, even when our prayers go unanswered or He strips us of something that we love. Good parents love …
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We are continuing to read through Heaven Taken by Storm together. You can find our reading plan and links to previous posts here. https://open.spotify.com/episode/292VjtGygTCSFRgfcFw7rP?si=_mypLkF4TaW8k35x4BjxPA Chapter Sixteen Outline 27 Motives for Offering violence Consider our deplorable condition It is possible to arrive at happiness Violence for heaven is our grand business Consider how violent the wicked are for sin …
There is something inherently intriguing about an epic story. The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit books (and films) are grand and sweeping narratives of which we simply cannot have enough. The highly popular Marvel Cinematic Universe is a collection of individual stories that connect and interplay over different periods, locations, and even mediums. …
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Since I did not preach yesterday, I am posting my finally completed notes from an earlier portion of Ephesians from back in Kingdom Life that I also did not preach. Bondservants, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling, with a sincere heart, as you would Christ, not by the way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, …
I am a sojourner on the earth;hide not your commandments from me! Psalm 119:19 ESV Having already referred to himself as God’s servant, the psalmist now calls himself a sojourner. In the ancient world, a sojourner was quite different from being a modern-day tourist. Today, we are able to go to the other side of …
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https://open.spotify.com/episode/4orea6oziK90jwmfVyhhL6?si=VRUOJWVlTa67ah8ZJI5y3A We are continuing to read through Heaven Taken by Storm together. You can find our reading plan and links to previous posts here. Chapter Fifteen Outline Objection #1 – But we have no power to save ourselves… Objection #2 – But this offering violence is hard… Objection #3 – But I will lose the pleasure of sin… …
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