Tertullian records that this was done by his fellow-Christians at Carthage in the second century; the disciples of St. Columba worshipped him as an embodiment of Christ; and in the eighth century Elipandus of Toledo spoke of Christ as “a god among gods,” meaning that all believers were...
God doesn’t count us; he calls us by name. Arithmetic is not his focus. Isaiah had looked ahead and spoken the truth: If our powerful God had not provided us a legacy of living children,We would have ended up like ghost towns, like Sodom and Gomorrah. How can we sum this up?
God never calls us to do anything without faithfully keeping His wordand enabling us to do it. We are not always faithful to do what God tells us,but He remains faithful and stands by His word to fulfill what He has promised(Isa. 46:11). When the children of Israel reached the Red ...
Jesus calls us to love our enemies, and goes on to give crazy examples of this, that almost no-one would follow. We are reminded that God loved us even while we were his enemies, and that he even died for us. That takes loving to a whole new level of abnormality. Not easy! Let’...
In addition, God would have us understand: His help often comes gradually.Think of: Joseph, languishing in prison until Pharoah calls for him to interpret his dream (Exodus 39:19-41:43) David, living as a fugitive until God fulfills his promise to make him king (1 Samuel 16-31; 2 Sa...
The purpose of this post is not to start another book (which I might never finish) but to speak briefly about the work God calls us to and the work that He does in and through us. Tendency to our Feelings “Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus...
God calls us to be holy, a separated people from the World. We are to be salt and light to this world. We cannot be what God calls us to be when we participate in what the World is doing. Churches would often rationalized that this would be an opportunity to draw people to the chu...
WILHELMUS H.TH. MOEHN, "God Calls Us to His Service: The Relation between God and His Audience in Calvin's Sermons on Acts [Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance 345]. Droz, Genève 2001, 279 pp. ISBN 2600004831doi:10.1163/002820302x00319Ward Holder...
As Bridegroom, God calls his bride "Hephzi-bah" - "my delight is in her." Parallel Commentaries ... HebrewForכִּֽי־ (kî-)ConjunctionStrong's 3588: A relative conjunctionas a young manבָּחוּר֙ (bā·ḥūr)Noun - masculine singularStrong's 970:...
Thus to accomplish even the beginning of his task the Theist has to show against the Agnostics, that the knowledge of God attainable by rational inference, however inadequate and imperfect it may be, is as true and valid, as far as it goes, as any other piece of knowledge we possess; ...