“For we ourselves were once” this way. Every time you sin, you, in effect are the fool saying in his heart, “There is no God.” Jesus told the Pharisees that by rejecting him as Messiah
When you look at the gospel, you understand that you cannot break God’s Law without activating holy justice. And it either falls on you, or it falls on Christ. The hymn writer many years ago said, “O what a Savior is mine. In Him God’s mercies combine.” ...
And so, it would not do us any harm to remember those vows given at Baptism on behalf of each of us. When a man is baptized as an adult, as even now sometimes happens, and happened especially often in antiquity, he himself makes the vows on his own behalf; but if he is baptized ...
Back to those tassels: they are a kind of a commandments’ sacrament of God’s Word. God will show us in His Law the way we are to walk and will show us when we go astray, so apt to go astray, and like sheep we have all gone astray, each into his own way (Isaiah 53) and ...
We may not understand the ways of God in withholding benefits from us that we hoped to enjoy, or when He removes in part some of those objects with natural appeal that we once valued, while allowing others to possess them. We may also spend much time wishing for vindication and restored ...
Wilson lists some reasonable clues for us to believe that the facts narrated in the Doctrine of Addaï have an historical basis and relate to Abgar V, who reigned at the time of Jesus. When he died in 50 AD, he was succeeded by his son Ma'nu V. After the death of the latter, ...
A hymn popular among Latter-day Saints declares: There is a green hill far away, Without a city wall, Where the dear Lord was crucified, Who died to save us all. We may not know, we cannot tell, What pains he had to bear, But we believe it was for us He hung and suffered there...
Why do you turn your face away? We think that God has turned his face away from us when we find ourselves suffering, so that shadows overwhelm our feelings and stop our eyes from seeing the brilliance of the truth. All the same, if God touches our intellect and chooses to become present...
people from a distance, you might think they had it made and that life was easy for them. But when you get closer, you discover that their climb to the top of the mountain was not an easy one. The road was rocky and bumpy, but the bumps were what they climbed on to get to the...
even when we were dead in trespasses and sins." The pith of my sermon will be an endeavour to declare that the reason of Christ's dying for us did not lie in our excellence; but where sin abounded grace did much more abound, for the persons for whom Jesus died were viewed by him ...