I lift up my eyes to the hills.From where does my help come? Psalm 121:1 ESV Life under the sun is vanity. Even in places of justice and righteousness, we still find wickedness. No one does good, not even one. Some die young. Others die old. Some are rich. others are poor. Some love life. …
https://youtu.be/Oo98BbaEDrs For as the heavens are higher than the earth,so are my ways higher than your waysand my thoughts than your thoughts. Isaiah 55:9 ESV The book of Job is wisdom literature largely in the form of an epic poem which sees Job debating his friends over the nature of suffering within the world, especially …
The question of how God's absolute sovereignty relates to human freedom is a long-standing one. In his book Enjoying God, Sproul briefly tackles this subject and makes an important distinction: we are free, but we are not autonomous. Augustine said that "in a certain sense God wills everything that comes to pass." He ordains things …
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https://youtu.be/G4ge8sNkmyI I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. There is one body …
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work. I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and …
While writing about the immutability of God, I entirely intended to address this question: Does Jesus becoming man mean that God changed, that He became mutable? My word count limit, however, came a lot faster than I realized, so I have decided to write a follow-up article addressing this question. Although my answer is a …
https://youtu.be/brDSi-51gUI For I the Lord do not change; therefore you, O children of Jacob, are not consumed Malachi 3:6 ESV After decades in exile, the LORD brought the people of Judah back to their own land. Upon their return, they rebuilt the altar, began rebuilding the temple, and worshiped their great God who had disciplined …
A joyful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones. Proverbs 17:22 ESV We all know the feeling. When someone is steeped in joy, it radiates from them. It illuminates rooms with more than mere light. We are drawn to it like moths. But it also repels. Nocturnal creatures hide from …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B78h8TVSO44&t=31s Rather than proceeding directly into Ephesians 4, as I originally had planned to do. I believe that a brief interlude would be helpful for us before launching into the second half of the book. As I have noted before, the plan is to study Ephesians in three sections: chapters 1-3 were called Kingdom Come …
This sermon was originally preached in 2016. But avoid foolish controversies, genealogies, dissensions, and quarrels about the law, for they are unprofitable and worthless. As for a person who stirs up division, after warning him once and then twice, having nothing more to do with him, know that such a person is warped and sinful; …
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