By Robert Flynn on
2/25/2010 8:48 AM
"But now I come to Thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they may have My joy made full in themselves. I have given them Thy word; and the world has hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. I do not ask Thee to take them out of the world, but to keep them from the evil one. They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world."-John 17:13-16
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By Jay Henning on
2/24/2010 5:26 PM
A new way to look at the acronym TDY...
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By Robert Flynn on
2/19/2010 8:06 AM
They were God's chosen people; they had had a unique place in God's purposes; and yet when God's Son had come into the world they had rejected him and crucified him. How is this tragic paradox to be explained? (William Barclay)
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By Daniel Cartwright on
2/10/2010 5:17 AM
". . .as it is written: “None is righteous, no, not one. . .
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By Robert Flynn on
2/9/2010 6:27 AM
God made us to serve him, and enjoy him; but by sin we have made ourselves unfit to serve him, and to enjoy him. We ought, therefore, continually to beseech him, by his Holy Spirit, to give us understanding. The comforts some have in God, should be matter of joy to others. But it is easy to own, that God's judgments are right, until it comes to be our own case. All supports under affliction must come from mercy and compassion. The mercies of God are tender mercies; the mercies of a father, the compassion of a mother to her son. They come to us when we are not able to go to them. Causeless reproach does not hurt, and should not move us. The psalmist could go on in the way of his duty, and find comfort in it. He valued the good will of saints, and was desirous to keep up his communion with them. Soundness of heart signifies sincerity in dependence on God, and devotedness to him. (Matthew Henry)
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By Robert Flynn on
2/7/2010 10:46 AM
Christianity exists not merely as a power or principle in this world, but also in an institutional and organized form which is intended to preserve and protect (not to obstruct) it. Christ established a visible church with apostles, as authorized teachers and rulers, and with two sacred rites, baptism and the holy communion, to be observed to the end of the world. (Schaff, P., & Schaff, D. S. (1997). History of the Christian church.)
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By Daniel Cartwright on
2/6/2010 6:02 PM
Death is separation. A physical death is the separation of the soul from the body. Spiritual death, which is of greater significance, is the separation of the soul from God. In Genesis 2:17, God tells Adam that in the day he eats of the forbidden fruit he will “surely die.” Adam does fall, but his physical death does not occur immediately; God must have had another type of death in mind—spiritual death. This separation from God is exactly what we see in Genesis 3:8. When Adam and Eve heard the voice of the Lord, they “hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God.” The fellowship had been broken. They were spiritually dead.
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By Jay Henning on
2/6/2010 2:19 PM
Fear and forgiveness seem to be an opposite impossible couple. These two traits, when correctly applied, provide a key to deeper understanding of God.
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By Daniel Cartwright on
2/5/2010 4:58 AM
And you were dead in the trespasses and sins. - Ephesians 2:1
In those words, the Apostle Paul is speaking of a 'former' state of those believers, a state of being spiritually dead. So we have to ask - former to what? Well, that is rather self-evident in the context and can only mean before they believed in Christ, since he is speaking to professing believes in Ephesus.
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By Robert Flynn on
2/1/2010 8:18 AM
It is an unquestionable truth, that if a man be not happy at home, he cannot be happy anywhere; and he who is happy there, need be miserable nowhere. (John Angell James, The Marriage Ring)
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