But the first is the very substance of the gospel. "There is none other name whereby men may be saved, but by Jesus Christ," Acts iv.12. Life eternal is all within him. All the treasures of grace and wisdom and knowledge are seated in him, Col. i.19, ii.3. All the light of ...
Grace without hierarchy is meaningless. I wish to unpack this claim using (while at the same time taking very large liberties with) Alexis de Tocqueville’s contrast between the paternalism of the European Ancien Regime, on the one hand, with the individualism of the then nascent America and ...
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2 And great crowds gathered about him, so that he got into a boat and sat down. And the whole crowd stood on the beach. 3 And he told them many things in parables, saying: “A sower went out to sow. 4 And as he sowed, some seeds fell along the path, and the birds came and...
not the doctrine of eternal life, nor the promises of it, nor the way to it; though all these are contained in them, and pointed out by them: for though life and immortality are brought to light by the Gospel, and the promise of eternal life belongs to the covenant of grace, and th...
The pure in heart obtain the grace To see without a veil His face, there are two references to Scripture, the first to Matt.5:8, the second to 2 Cor.3:18, where the Authorized Version translates With open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord.' The Greek is, however...
8 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, 9 not of works, lest anyone should boast. 10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them. (...
Read more about coping with sorrow, grief and loss. Prayer for the day In sorrow, Jesus, Your comfort will take all the bitterness and longing away and give me courage to face the heartache. Your grace will console me and Your arms will support me. Thank You, dear Lord. ...
III. History of the English Translation now in common Use — The authorized version was undertaken at the command of King James I, in consequence of several objections having been made by the Puritans to the bishops' translation at the second day's sitting of the conference held at the palac...
—Those who in the day of grace are accepted by grace, shall never be cast off.—Riches, sensual pleasure, and worldly glory are the devil’s dangerous baits. Ah ! beware of this poisonous sugar !—The treasures which we cannot take with us when we die are not the true ones; blessed...