Sin
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Read Daniel 9:1-19 Pray The Story of Israel Abraham – Isaac – Jacob Moses – Exodus – Promised Land Judges – United Kingdom – Divided Kingdom Manasseh – He rebuilt worship centers to false gods His father had destroyed. He burned his son as a human sacrifice to a false god. His reign was full
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What is the Gospel? “God is Holy” – God is perfect in all of his attributes – glorious in all that he does. He is set apart – unique – His ways are not our ways, His thoughts are not our thoughts. He dwells in pure radiant unapproachable light. Nothing and no one can stand
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How to Love God Part 2 John Bunyan: “When God brings sinners into the covenant of grace, he doth first kill them with the covenant of works, which is the moral law, or ten commandments.” To sum up yesterday’s post I argued that the main work of the law is to reveal God’s holiness and
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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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I’m sitting in an Olive Garden in Bloomington, IL. My thoughts of what heaven will be like do not much exceed this.
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If we shine the light too brightly that Christianity is mainly about personal transformation – we create a hierarchy that encourages people’s natural inclination to push their sin underground and pretend to be more than they are. If we, instead, shine the light brightly on the beauty of Jesus – His Holiness – His Compassion
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I had this picture come to mind on Sunday while in church. You remember the scene in the movie Hook with Robin Williams where he has met the Lost Boys and he sits down at the end of a very long day to what he thinks is going to be a glorious meal, but when
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Brilliant light – light so pure and piercing – light radiating in an incomprehensible spectrum – light so bright as to be unapproachable. In the midst of the light, on a throne, high and lifted up – the God of gods and the King of kings – the Lord of all the hosts of heaven
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Dean Koontz: “Everyone talks about justice, but there can be no justice where there is no truth, and these are times when truth is seldom recognized and often despised.” If you grew up in a conservative Christian culture like I did you probably feel as if the world is coming undone.
Passionate Grace 