Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. Resist him, firm in your faith, knowing that the same kinds of suffering are being experienced by your brotherhood throughout the world.
1 Peter 5:8-9
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Know Your Brothers Suffer Also
Posted in Peter, Scripture, suffering on August 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Who Is This Who Even Forgives Sins?
Posted in Friend of sinners, Jesus, Scripture, redemption, worship on March 6, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Now one of the Pharisees invited Jesus to have dinner with him, so he went to the Pharisee’s house and reclined at the table. When a woman who had lived a sinful life in that town learned that Jesus was eating at the Pharisee’s house, she brought an alabaster jar of perfume, and as she [...]
Christ is All, and in All
Posted in John Piper, Paul, racism, sermons on February 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In Christ ethnic and social differences cease to be obstacles to deep, personal, intimate fellowship. Colossians 3:9-11, “You have put off the old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator. Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and [...]
With All Craftmanship
Posted in Moses, Scripture, calling, the arts, worship on February 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
See, the LORD has called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah; and He has filled him with the Spirit of God, with skill, with intelligence, with knowledge, and with all craftmanship, to devise artistic designs, to work in gold and silver and carving wood, for work [...]
The Grace of God Working with Me
Posted in David J. Bosch, Paul, fellow workers with God, paradox, sovereignty on February 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Some of Jesus’ contemporaries indeed believed that God’s work, by definition, excluded any human involvement. We want to put it, catagorically, however, that this is a false conception that cannot but be detrimental to the Church. The Bible speaks with a disarming candor here:
-The disciples are seed (Matt 13:38) and at the same time laborers [...]
The Aroma of Christ
Posted in Paul, Scripture, aroma of Christ, glory, sovereignty on January 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“But thanks be to God, who in Christ always leads us in triumphal procession, and through us spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of Him everywhere.
For we are the aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing, to one a fragrance from death to death, to [...]
The Boundaries of their Dwelling Place
Posted in God of All Nations, Paul, Scripture, sovereignty on January 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place, that they should seek God, in the hope that they might feel their way toward him and find him. Yet he is actually not far [...]
Not For Your Sake
Posted in Ezekiel, Scripture, glory, redemption, sovereignty, vindication on November 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
“It is not for your sake, O house of Israel, that I am about to act, but for the sake of My Holy Name, which you have profaned among the nations to which you came. And I will vindicate the holiness of My Great Name, which has been profaned among the nations, and which you [...]
