My soul clings to you,Your right hand upholds me.
Holding onto our world
It is in our nature to hold on to our world view or to be conformed to the world’s viewpoint. “Worldly wisdom” becomes our refuge for it doesn’t call us…
The Gospel is for the believer – Part 4
The Covenant of Faith “But by His doing you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption, so that, just as…
Futile suffering in this world
The Problem of Futile Suffering I listened as an atheist admitted that the most difficult quandary for him in believing in God is the presence of pointless suffering. He could…
The Gospel is for the believer – Part 5
Washing with the Word/Sanctification Ephesians 5:25-27“Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her, so that He might sanctify her, having cleansed…
Unicorns and fairies
If we were suddenly in a world where unicorns and fairies were common, they would in short order lose their novelty as we went about our every day life. We…
The Firstborn and Beginning of God’s Creation
BACKGROUND: The son of God, the son of man Then God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish…
God hides so he is approachable
As discussed earlier (here), God has postponed the Day of the Lord, the day of our judgment . . . by hiding himself. And because of this we have hope,…
Beautiful
In Proverbs 31, King Lemuel sets down to write as he recalls “the utterance which his mother taught him”. These are the words that a mother installed into her son…
Good News, not good advice
I wish you would bear with me in a little foolishness. Do bear with me! For I feel a divine jealousy for you, since I betrothed you to one husband,…