We need to remember that God speaks to us through the people we encounter in our daily lives: the co-worker we ignore each day because he is a little odd, our sister that we have yet to forgive after she said something hurtful to us, the homeless man we pass on the street and prete...
James 4:8 “Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.” It never ceases to amaze me how people can say one thing and do another. Or, how people act one way in public and then act differently behind ...
It says, “The Spirit that lives in us wants us to be his own.” 6 But God shows us even more kindness.Scripture says, “God opposes arrogant people, but he is kind to humble people.” 7 So place yourselves under God’s authority. Resist the devil, and he will run away ...
“The supremacy of Scripture is not a dictate imposed on us by a faceless despot. The words of Scripture are the words of Jesus, the Good Shepherd who laid down his life for his people.” “God becomes supreme in our hearts not by battering us into submission but by gently changing our...
We should know the Word of God and know the God of the Word. It’s much more than connecting people with a book to be read or listened to. It’s about connecting with the One of whom the Bible speaks – Jesus Christ.” Any reading of the Bible that short changes Christ as the ...
It is for this reason that God has given us the Bible: “God has made known the secret of His will through the Prophets and Apostles in the Holy Scriptures. He permitted them to say who He is” (18). Brunner holds an instrumental view of the Scripture. God speaks to humanitythroughthe...
Examining scripture to properly interpret it. “Study and do your best to present yourself to God approved, a workman tested by trial who has no reason to be ashamed, accurately handling and skillfully teaching the word of truth.” (2 Timothy 2:15).
For many years, I believed that the scriptures taught that God had never completely fulfilled the land promise that He made to Abraham. This is what I was taught to believe and what, I in turn taught others. Now we all know that God will not go back on His promises. So, assuming thi...
Canon Of Scripture, as the phrase is usually employed, may be defined as "the Authoritative Standard of Religion and Morals, composed of those writings which have been given for this purpose by God to men." A definition frequently given of the Canon is, that it is "the Catalogue of the ...
I am strong and full of courage. I am not afraid what man can do to me because God is with me wherever I go.Joshua 1:9 I have opened my heart to God's love, and I am now one of his children.John 1:12 I forget those things which are behind, and reach forth unto those thing...