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… …
The following quotation is from one of Calvin’s sermons that were collected together as a short book. Its subject is a heavy one. Many who claimed to agree with the Reformation were buckling under the threat of (and often enacted) persecution. A common mentality was of private support of Protestantism, while maintaining the public motions …
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The Affair of the Sausage was the effective start of the Reformation in Switzerland. The setting was the season of Lent in the year 1522. Huldrych Zwingli was already drawn into the Reformation that Martin Luther began via his 95 Theses in 1517, but this meat-eating event proved to be the watershed moment of the …
and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God, Ephesians 6:17 ESV As we rapidly approach the conclusion of Ephesians as a whole and of Kingdom War particularly, we conclude our study of the individual pieces of the armor of God with the only weapon of offense in the set. Gurnall comments …
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