‘Awakening’ is an awareness of personal sinfulness in light of a holy God. People necessarily must be ‘awakened’ to their sin before a righteous God before they can repent and trust in Christ for salvation. Salvation is a sovereign work of God that replaces stony hearts with a hearts of flesh [...]
To escape the wrath to come is the first desire of the awakened sinner. Christ himself taught us that repentance is linked with forgiveness (Luke 24:46-47). So therefore forgiveness is granted to the truly repentant sinner - this is the first duty required by the Word. And this duty is happily [...]
At first glance this psalm seems like a ‘to do’ list. Be like this and you may dwell in the Lord’s tent. Actually this psalm is not about us! Its about the Lord!
O LORD, who may abide in Your tent?
The picture here is the Lord as host and His tent as a tent of hospitality.
Who [...]
Music provides an accompaniment for almost every activity in life— most of us would agree that music doesn’t have to be sanctified in order to make it legitimate or within God’s pleasure or God’s will. However, since we understand that whatever we do in worship is under the authority of the [...]
Have you ever wondered about the companionship aspect of marriage? God made everything and He said it was ‘good!’ But when he saw Adam alone he said that it was ‘not good’ that man should be alone. God created Eve to be a helper and a companion. This was all before the [...]
Our church believes in the regulative principle of worship. That means is that we only do things in our worship service that are commanded in the Bible, specifically,
1) reading of the Scriptures,
2) preaching and hearing the Word of God,
3) singing with grace in our hearts to the Lord,
4) prayer with thanksgiving [...]
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This is real faith: believing and acting obediently regardless of circumstances or contrary to evidence. After all, if faith depended on visible evidence, it wouldn’t be faith. “We walk by faith, not by sight,” the apostle Paul wrote.
It is absurd for Christians to constantly seek new demonstrations of God’s power, to expect a miraculous answer [...]
My Alaskan friend (now stationed in Missouri) Donna wrote this recently and it reminded me again of that wondrous question; why did the Lord choose me?
Never does much time go by when I don’t wonder why God would choose to save me. After I read this passage last night from Yours, Jack (C.S. [...]
Ask ye what great thing I know,
that delights and stirs me so?
what the high reward I win?
Whose the name I glory in?
Jesus Christ, the crucified.
Who defeats my fiercest foes?
Who consoles my saddest woes?
Who revives my fainting heart,
healing all its hidden smart?
Jesus Christ, the crucified.
Who is life in life to me?
Who the death of [...]
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