You need God the Father to intervene and provide you the strength to make this possible, since as Paul Christ's power is made perfect in weakness (2 Cor. 12:9), because a weak person realizes how much they becomes clear that participation in the Lord's Supper is not just an optional 'extra' that you can take AAA Prayer (About) ACKNOWLEDGE WHO GOD IS: We kneel before the Father, from whom every family in heaven

enjoying a long life in which things may be well and in which things may multiply greatly, clearly are made Normally, blessings will follow obedience, but not in every specific situation. cusp of settling into a new land, but we are close to beginning a new year, so it's a good time to take The Canons of Dordt draw to a close with a very similar reminder for God's people today. As you finish out 2025 and prepare for 2026, make sure placing yourself in a Bible preaching church is

Catholics & Protestants agree there's no salvation apart from the Church, but for very different reasons Everything you've heard Jesus teach on has been mind blowing and has shattered nearly every preconceived So every time Jesus asked a question, they probably sweat bullets hoping that Jesus wouldn't pick them But the two groups take very different paths in arriving at this conclusion. Don't make that mistake.

The primary purpose of Scripture is to "make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus." But the words of Scripture stand alone in that they are the very words of God, breathed out by the Holy Because its divine origin makes Scripture so much different than anything else ever written, it is the Let the Bible teach, rebuke, correct and train you so that "you may be thoroughly equipped for every

that my letter hurt you, but only for a little while— 9   yet now I am happy, not because you were made At every point you have proved yourselves to be innocent in this matter. 12  So even though I wrote to When tough words are necessary, make sure they're God's Word, not your own.

That not even the slightest thought or desire contrary to any one of God’s commandments should ever arise Rather, with all my heart I should always hate sin and take pleasure in whatever is right. Make it your goal to know God's law, statutes, precepts, commands and decrees. battle Sarx, keep doing what you're doing right now: reading God's Word and digging deeper into it every

So it only makes sense to conclude that the more you sin, the more grace you'll receive. asks the question his readers are thinking in order to proactively dismantle the problem before it takes I used every bit of emphasis possible to reflect the sharpness of Paul's repudiation reflected in the

synonyms like commands, decrees, precepts and laws as poetic stand ins to represent scripture, the very section of Psalm 119 reminds us once again of why it is that it's so important for you to read scripture every It's not just some arbitrary religious rule you need to comply with, rather it's very much for your benefit What's important here is the connection the psalmist makes between sin, suffering and sanctification.

Logos.com 2 Corinthians 3:12-18 (NIV) 12  Therefore, since we have such a hope, we are very bold. 13  face to prevent the Israelites from seeing the end of what was passing away. 14  But their minds were made Thus, if the marvelous Maker of every good thing were not dealing with us,  we would have no hope of Paul describes such people as having minds made dull (other translations: their minds are hardened / uses in the final verse of today's passage are critical to achieving the fulfillment that has been made

depravity which even infects small infants in their mother’s womb, and the root which produces in man every believers may sleep peacefully in their sin) but so that the awareness of this corruption might often make Have you ever thought of God's love as being 'bone crushing' before? our Confession puts it, this pain brings about an "awareness of this corruption [which] might often make The Holy Spirit seeks to wake sinners up to the danger they're in, much in the same way you might wake