So be on your guard and watch yourselves, so that you do not forget the covenant of the Lord your God which He has made with you, and make for yourselves a carved or sculpted image in the form of anything which the Lord your God has forbidden you. For the Lord your God is a consu...
How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news, who proclaim peace, who bring good tidings, who proclaim salvation, who say to Zion, “Your God reigns!” Treasury of Scripture For yourselves, brothers, know our entrance in to you, that it was not in vain: ...
"How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news, who proclaim peace, who bring good tidings, who proclaim salvation, who say to Zion, 'Your God reigns!'" (Isaiah 52:7)Q61. (Ephesians 6:15) What would be the characteristic of a person who didn't have his...
But the Psalmist reminds us, as we see throughout the scriptures, that everything belongs to God. This is our first principle (albeit from the First Testament) – everything is God’s, it is just on loan to us. Second, in Luke 21:1-4, Jesus reflects on witnessing an older woman ...
Third, worship can refer to times when Christians gather officially as a congregation to praise God. This form of worship is commended and commanded in the Scriptures. “Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another—and all the...
The Scriptures– We start with the Scriptures, which afford us God’s self-revelation, first in the unfolding of a concern for God’s people, but supremely in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. The Scriptures, as related by the Holy Spirit to our contemporary situation, are...
You are the God that moves mountains. You are the King that reigns in gentleness but also authority. We look to you when times appear bleak. We look to you when we feel like we are waiting for answers. We avert our gaze from the things of this world and focus on the glory that shi...
When they ask you why your God didn’t warn you of what was coming so you would be prepared, what will you say? Will you tell them that I warned, but you would not listen? Will you tell them that you were trying to protect yourself and your future? What will you say to those ...
There’s no more fitting text than Isaiah 53, which prophesies God’s shocking plan to send his Servant to die for the sins of his people. You likely recognize these lines: We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to our own way; ...
of beauty brought people closer to God: “The dull mind rises to truth through that which is material”. Clark calls this “the intellectual background of all the sublime works of art of the next century and in fact has remained the basis of our belief of the value of art until today...