We want to see why each and every passage of scripture points to Christ as the hero of the story. Everything, and I mean everything, points to him in some way. It is not always implicit, but it is there. Maybe it shows the need for a better king, or more humble servant, or eve...
of the Truth of the Scripture Records stated anew, with Special Reference to the Doubts and Discoveries of Modern Times,” by the Rev. G. Rawlinson, M.A., pp. 5-6. (2)The Worth of the Old Testament,a Sermon preached in St. Paul’s Cathedral on the second Sunday in Advent, 8th ...
Afflictions such as aversion, pride and jealously are built from momentary feelings of attraction and repulsion. Suffering warns us that this identity, this world we have built out of our own imagination is threatened by loss or change. The very notion of independent identity must, for its ...
Afflictions such as aversion, pride and jealously are built from momentary feelings of attraction and repulsion. Suffering warns us that this identity, this world we have built out of our own imagination is threatened by loss or change. The very notion of independent identity must, for its ...
ll discover that our natural comfort is not the chief end of the universe. Instead, we might just find that the God of the universe is nearer than we ever imagined. Maybe, we’ll be able to say with Paul that “…our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory...
For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed. For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him. For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.”...
to have seen thy soul in its bloom is to have obtained a momentary glimpse in thyself of the transfiguration which shall eventually make thee more than man; to recognize is to achieve the great task of gazing upon the blazing light without dropping the eyes and not falling back in terror,...
despised. Nothing seems to be working out circumstantially in Paul’s life. And yet he looks at those hardships and calls them light and momentary, which is kind of staggering, if you think about it, because the suffering he describes is severe from our perspective. And yet he says these ...
17 For our momentary, light affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison, 18 while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are...
During this process it is tempting to want to run away sometimes and be alone, and that may actually be a momentary solution, but not for the long haul. It may be the brother or sister who is rubbing you the wrong way who is actually polishing your character for heaven. Sometimes it ...