Sovereignty
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My wife, Christie, listened to the recent discussion between Andy Stanley and Dr. Flowers and felt compelled to write a letter to Pastor Stanley. “Dear Pastor Stanley, This morning my husband was listening to an interview you did with Dr. Flowers a couple of days ago. He came across it through a Twitter post. I
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Romans 9 The Statement “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.” WHOOOAAAA God …hates???? That would be unjust!! 14 What shall we say then? Is there injustice on God’s part? By no means! This must be about something else not about God saving people… 15 For he says to Moses, “I will have mercy on
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The bent of Paul’s heart to rage against God is the same bent of every heart apart from awakening grace. The need of Paul to be knocked off his horse by the blinding light of the Lord is not a “Paul” need. God must reveal himself or we perish. The response of faith in Paul
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KJV was requested by the host church – It had been a while 🙂
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Powerful sequence in Amos 4 “I gave you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, And lack of bread in all your places, Yet you did not return to me, declares the Lord. I also withheld the rain from you When there were yet three months to the harvest… …So two or three
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John 11:14 “Then Jesus told them plainly, “Lazarus has died, 15 and for your sake I am glad that I was not there, so that you may believe. John 11:35 “Jesus Wept” What is Jesus glad about in verse 14? That “he was not there” Glad that he was not there to prevent Lazarus’ death!
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Reading today in I Kings 11 and 12 Due to Solomon’s sin of going after other gods, God says his kingdom will not endure. And the prophet Ahijah says this to Jeroboam: “Behold I am about to tear the kingdom from the hand of Solomon and will give you ten tribes…” But how will he
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Observation on God’s sovereignty in today’s Bible reading: 1) Jeremiah 1 “Now the word of the Lord came to me saying, ‘Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.” God’s sovereign choice does not mean Jeremiah is
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In Isaiah, Assyria is “the rod of God’s anger” against a godless nation. And God uses them to plunder and spoil the “people of his wrath.” And when God has completed his appointed purpose for the nation of Assyria, Assyria says, “By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom,
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Philip Yancey writes in his book on prayer, “A hundred times a second lightning strikes somewhere on earth, and I for one do not believe God personally programs each course.” Why does Yancey say this? Why would it bother him if God was planning the path of every lightning bolt? Is he concerned about God
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