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1 day ago · We can always pray, and we can usually speak and mentor and reach out in the name of Jesus, and show the love of Christ and the wisdom of having invested our lives in Him. Psalm 92 says of the elderly, “They still bear fruit in old age; they are ever full of sap and green” (v. 14).
1 day ago · God elects sinners in Jesus Christ. Jesus dies for God’s elect. The Holy Spirit then applies the merits of Christ to all those, but only those, whom God has chosen, and for whom the son has died. Not only do we have the Trinitarian symmetry, we also have the so-called “five points” of Calvinism.
His resilience can be an inspiring guide for us. In the Bible, Apostle Paul similarly echoes this sentiment in Philippians 3:13-14 (NIV): “But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.” Reflection:
2 days ago · Assurance of Pardon - Having confessed our sins, it is imperative that we then proclaim and rejoice in the assurance of pardon that is granted to us in the gospel of Jesus Christ, as the apostles did (Eph 1:7, Col 1:13-14, etc). A Biblically faithful worship service must announce this liberating truth every week.
4 days ago · That brings Father Witherup to the Bible’s lessons on aging that treat growing old and gray as the normal course of life and generally equate age with the gray hairs of wisdom. “Aging is part of a seamless path that human beings usually follow, a continuum that extends from birth to death,” he notes. Most important is the goal of living a ...
4 days ago · Proverbs 16. Contrast the Upright and the Wicked. 1 The plans of the heart belong to man, But the answer of the tongue is from the L ORD. 2 All the ways of a man are clean in his own sight, But the L ORD weighs the motives. 3 Commit your works to the L ORD. And your plans will be established.
May 31, 2024 · After visiting Jesus, the wise men are warned in a dream not to return to King Herod and to take a different route home (Matthew 2:12). During Jesus’ trial, Pilate’s wife suffers greatly in a dream because of Jesus and sends a message to her husband, urging him to have nothing to do with Jesus’ condemnation (Matthew 27:19).
