Posts Tagged: God
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Sep 22, 2011
No CommentsVerse – Romans 5:1
..since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Romans 5:1 Can you say you have peace with God? I look out on my friends and this world around me and I have to say I don’t see the peace that they claim they have. Our lives...
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Sep 20, 2011
No CommentsVerse – 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”?...
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Aug 17, 2011
No CommentsVerse: 1 Timothy 6:20-21
Avoid the irreverent babble and contradictions of what is falsely called “knowledge,” for by professing it some have swerved from the faith. 1 Timothy 6:20-21 In this final instruction in 1st Timothy there is clear instructions to avoid the thinking of the “rich” in earthly possessions. One of the discussions I most often have with unChristian...
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Aug 05, 2011
No CommentsWitnessing : Faith in power of God
1 Corinthians 2:2-6 For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. And I was with you in weakness and in fear and much trembling, and my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, that your faith...
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Jul 27, 2011
No CommentsQuote: 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...
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Jul 25, 2011
No CommentsQuote: John Calvin – Weakness of our flesh
“The capital point is that instead of indulging this weakness we should seek to shake it off and and be re-animated by the Spirit of God.” – John...
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Jul 25, 2011
No CommentsWho’s writing do you study?
I get asked who’s writings and teachings I read and I rattle off a few from the top of my head, I went to write a list and of course I put the Bible first… but then I started looking at my list and I realized that I read a lot of people who have errors in their theology....
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Jul 21, 2011
No CommentsQuote: 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...
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Jul 20, 2011
No CommentsQuote: 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...
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Jul 19, 2011
No CommentsFolly 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...
