Thursday, April 30, 2015
Wednesday, April 29, 2015
Tuesday, April 28, 2015
Monday, April 27, 2015
Friday, April 24, 2015
Thursday, April 23, 2015
Monday, April 20, 2015
Friday, April 17, 2015
Thursday, April 16, 2015
Wednesday, April 15, 2015
God Is Love
Dr. J. I. Packer in Knowing God makes an interesting contrast in two
statements he makes about “God is love”. First of all he says that “God
is love” is not the complete truth about God so far as the bible is
concerned. Secondly he says that “God is love” is the complete truth
about God so far as the Christian is concerned. “God is love means that
His love finds expression in everything that he says and does. For
instance in Romans 8:28: AND WE KNOW THAT ALL THINGS WORK TOGETHER FOR
GOOD TO THEM THAT LOVE GOD, TO THEM WHO ARE THE CALLED ACCORDING TO HIS
PURPOSE. Paul is declaring that every single thing that happens to him
expresses God’s love to him and comes to him for the furthering of God’s
purpose for him”.
Tuesday, April 14, 2015
Monday, April 13, 2015
The Nature Of Sin
Oswald Chambers wrote, "The nature of sin is not immorality and
wrongdoing, but the nature of self-realization which leads us to say, "I
am my own God." This nature may exhibit itself in proper morality or in
improper immorality, but it always has a common basis--my claim to my
right to myself." This is our problem we all claim to have a right to
our-self. No one can tell us anything because we know what is best for
us and God help the person who gets in our way! C.S. Lewis put it this
way, "Pride is the ruthless, sleepless, unsmiling concentration on self"
Lord deliver me from myself, and help me to see how much I get in the way of making any spiritual progress.
Lord deliver me from myself, and help me to see how much I get in the way of making any spiritual progress.
Gov't Mule - Simple Man
Gov't Mule's cover of the Lynyrd Skynyrd hit "Simple Man" off the album "Under the Influence" (tribute to Skynyrd cd with various artists)
Saturday, April 11, 2015
Wednesday, April 8, 2015
Saved by grace alone or not saved at all!
“I AM PRAYING FOR. . . THOSE WHOM YOU HAVE GIVEN ME FOR THEY ARE YOURS”
John 17:9 Jesus values them simply because they belong to God. Jesus is
saying I am praying for these people because they are yours and I am
concerned for what is yours. We are God’s personal possession, Jesus is
praying for us because we belong to him. How ridiculous for Christians
to worry and fear when the shepherd and caretaker of their souls is
caring for them. “You are not your own, for you were bought with a price’ (1 Corinthians 6:19-20).
Believers are the Father’s love gift to the Son. It is unthinkable that the Father would permit this gift of love to fail by one believer being lost. Salvation is totally of God’s grace. If we could not be saved by our good works why should we be condemned after we are saved by some sin or act of disobedience? If God who knows all things knew that we would fail, why would he have given his son in the first place? Either we are saved by grace alone or we are not saved at all!
Believers are the Father’s love gift to the Son. It is unthinkable that the Father would permit this gift of love to fail by one believer being lost. Salvation is totally of God’s grace. If we could not be saved by our good works why should we be condemned after we are saved by some sin or act of disobedience? If God who knows all things knew that we would fail, why would he have given his son in the first place? Either we are saved by grace alone or we are not saved at all!
