The assurance of this salvation is based on the covenant of grace and election that God made before the foundation of the world. Jesus had victory over death and the grave. He will destroy all His enemies. He did all of these things by His own power. Therefore, we are duty in church ...
When I think back on my years at JRC, I know that my first memories will invariably be these myriad of life moments: B’nai Mitzvah, funerals and shiva calls, weddings and baby namings and the countless simple moments when I was able, in some measure, to be part of your lives on beh...
But over the next weeks and months my thoughts returned again and again to those moments that I had spent immobile on the hallway floor. Lying there on the floor, I had been worried about many things. In addition to panicking about whether we would be able to get home that day, I wond...
Listen to The Word Made Plain on Amazon Echo Learn How Featured Offer When God Gives Up (Romans 1:18-27) In his three part series entitled, “When God Gives Up,” Senior Pastor Tony Clark of Calvary Chapel Newport News Virginia focuses on God’s limitations in regard to sin. Is there...
Based on 1 Peter 3:1-8 “Wives, in the same way submit yourselves to your own husbands so that, if any of them do not believe the word, they may be won over without words by the behavior of their wives, when they see the purity and reverence of your lives. Your beauty should not...
Shepherds for Sale—How Evangelical Leaders Traded the Truth for a Leftist Agenda.She describes how those on the political left are insidiously working to draw Evangelicals, the last remaining bulwark standing in the way of their socialist, Marxist vision, over to the Democrat side by giving larg...
But then the Law came crashing down on him. Look at the second clause in verse nine, starting with the words “but when.” Read those few words in the middle of the verse aloud, “But when the commandment came, sin revived…”
3.I conclude from the foregoing positions, and conclude with confidence, that the serpent was not really cursed at all, while the devil was. All I know of God tells me that He would not — all I know of nature tells me that He did not — inflict punishment on the unwitting victim of...
And then, imagine that Jordan Spieth comes over to you. He motions to his caddie. The caddie reaches into Spieth’s bag, and pulls out…a baseball bat? Spieth hands you the bat, pats you on the shoulder, and calls out, “Batter up!” before walking away. And suddenly you’re ...
On the Fall (Sexagesima Sunday.) GENESIS iii. 12. And the man said, The woman, whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat. This morning we read the history of Adam's fall in the first Lesson. Now does this story seem strange to you, my friends...