Monthly Archives: March 2019
Be subject for the Lord’s sake to every human institution, whether it be to the emperor as supreme, or to governors as sent by him to punish those who do evil and to praise those who do good. For this is the will of God, that by doing good you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish people……
True Christianity requires that we admit our sinfulness, accept the fact that we are incapable of saving ourselves, and trust in the only Savior who can. We must, however, begin by admitting our hands are dirty before we can make our way to the sink of salvation.
In the first Great Awakening, Jonathan Edwards noted that the first thing active in conversion was an overwhelming sense…..
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have…..
Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, in Aramaic called Bethesda, which has five roofed colonnades. In these lay a multitude of invalids—blind, lame, and paralyzed. One man was there who had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already been…..
