Verse – Psalm 51:6-7
Behold, you delight in truth in the inward being, and you teach me wisdom in the secret heart. Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. Psalms 51:6-7 We KNOW that our hearts are deceitful & incurable (Jer 17:9) but what is this “secret heart”? […]
Verse : Psalms 50:2-3
Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines forth. Our God comes; he does not keep silence; before him is a devouring fire, around him a mighty tempest. Psalms 50:2-3 I love how the Psalm speaks to the reader, clear and reliable judgment of God comes from the very nature around us, even the […]
Quote: W. Robert Godfrey – Weakness of the flesh
“The way to strengthen the weakness of our flesh is to seek our strength in God” — W. Robert Godfrey Reformation Sketches
Quote: Philip Melanchthon – Peace
“The conscience cannot come to rest and peace through works, but only through faith, that is, when it is assured and knows that for Christ’s sake it has a gracious God, as Paul says in Romans 5:1, “Since we are justified by faith, we have peace with God.” — Philip Melanchthon
Quote: Philip Melanchthon – Faith
“…faith signifies not only knowledge of history, but trust in the mercy promised because of Christ, or assent to the promise of grace.” — Philip Melanchthon
Folly and a raging heart.
When a man’s folly brings his way to ruin, his heart rages against the Lord. Proverbs 19:3 It amazes me every day people that blame God for their trouble. Couple things in this verse stand out to me. Man’s folly: This is man’s doing, his sin, his efforts, his action, not God’s. Man’s way: This […]
Hope
HOPE: the feeling that what is wanted can be had or that events will turn out for the best Romans 5:2-5 Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, […]
Worship: Singing the Same Song!
I got an email from my father that was pretty neat for a son to get. It was a testimony of God’s working in his life. God continues to move even though we are old. Way old. 😉 It is interesting that I still wrestle with Dispensational vs. Covenant Theology… yeah probably not on many people’s radar […]
Forgiven
This morning waves of emotion. It seems that as God blesses and changes my mindset it gets more difficult. As I drovethe truck (works when it is not raining) this morning trying to drive off the water in the air filter I cranked up the Skillet and just let go. God is in control and […]
In HIS goodness.
James 1: 18 In His goodness God chose to make us His own children by giving us His true Word. And we, out of all creation, became His choice possession. As a child I memorized the book of James and although my memory is not clear enough to spit it back out word for word, […]