hundreds of years yet before God gave His full law through Moses, but the one stipulation He wants to make Understand that your life has value not just because you're a awesome person, but because you are made Plenty of corrupt governments have been very good at avenging killers, but yet placed little value on Society must regain a fear of God, and a realization that His image in each and every person has all His image upon each one of us; ALIGN YOUR LIFE WITH GOD'S WILL: Pray that you will see God's image in every

Right now, at this very moment, Jesus is in heaven pleading your cause before God! Second, we have our own flesh in heaven— a guarantee that Christ our head will take us, his members, By the Spirit’s power we make the goal of our lives, not earthly things, but the things above where Christ righteousness from Jesus, but then He said something to the effect of, "Ok, I've paid the debt of your sins and made This means that every moment of every day, your risen Savior is at the right hand of God asking Him to

already seen as we've read through the Old Testament so far: An Almighty LORD who sovereignly controls every pregnant fiancée to the city of David which is called Bethlehem, the very place the prophet Micah had joy which will be for all the people, right before a multitude of the heavenly host - that is, the very choosing one of society's least significant elements to be recipients of the greatest announcement ever It's good that our society still makes a big deal out of celebrating Christmas each December, even if

Here in North America, we're used to cycling through our national leaders every four years, or eight the volume of the seraphim's song, but its words are deafening - indelibly etched into the mind of every God fearing person ever since: “Holy, Holy, Holy, is the LORD of hosts, The whole earth is full of His immediate heavenly presence, have a devastating effect as they descend upon the physical world: the very The seraphim needed to touch Isaiah's unclean lips with a burning coal to make atonement.

It's not a lack of evidence that makes Christianity, or even theism in general, so hard for some to accept It's our sinful pride and arrogance, driven by the deep urge to make ourselves god, which we inherited the Belgic Confession of Faith this year, we've worked through doctrines that Christians from nearly every Their problem isn't that they don't think we need God's grace; They'd certainly agree that our sin makes But they cling to our own free will as being the final arbiter of our eternal destiny: every person has

2   As when fire sets twigs ablaze and causes water to boil, come down to make your name known to your attributes as we come to Him in prayer, giving us a peace producing confidence that He has control over every Indeed, one of the primary reasons the Bible teaches us to make a cknowledging God such a primary part In other words, a cknowledging our depravity in the light of God's holiness makes it clear that God's

be allowed in, and in fact their fate was sealed a few chapters earlier when they were cast into the lake Dig Deeper Certainly the average American has a very distorted view of God in which the Father is viewed Be ready for His settlement by making sure that in every aspect of life, you belong to your faithful the Last, the Beginning & the End (v13) ALIGN YOUR LIFE WITH GOD'S WILL: Pray that you will submit every

The second greatest book ever written doesn't have a word in it! is before our eyes like a beautiful book in which all creatures, great and small, are as letters to make Second, he makes himself known to us more openly by his holy and divine Word, as much as we need in this didn't add all of this stunning beauty in creation just so that we could have a nice view to enjoy every Each part of nature, from the tiniest microscopic organism to the biggest of galaxies make up pages of

known as the prologue to John's gospel, John drops a huge theological nugget, writing that "no one has ever Do the hard work of knowing Christ each and every day of the year. Keep reading the Bible; keep making time during the day to disconnect from the noise to pray and think This is theology: living in the light of God's presence made visible through the Word. AAA Prayer (About) ACKNOWLEDGE WHO GOD IS: Our Father, invisible to most, but made known through the

to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19  Therefore go and make And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.” believe and confess that Jesus Christ, in whom the law is fulfilled, has by his shed blood put an end to every Included amongst these orders is to not only make disciples, but to baptize them in the name of the Father There are several things we can take away from John the Baptist's words, one being that not all baptisms