depravity which even infects small infants in their mother’s womb, and the root which produces in man every grace and mercy— not to put them to sleep but so that the awareness of this corruption might often make

The LORD offers you refreshment no vacation can ever provide. I will make an everlasting covenant with you, my faithful love promised to David. 4  See, I have made the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it without watering the earth and making For urgently and most genuinely God makes known in the Word what is pleasing to him:  that those who First, we experience physical thirst more often during these hot months, making it easier to understand

God made a covenant with Abraham, saying, “I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing…and all peoples on earth will be blessed through You are part of the promise that God made to Abraham. How did God fulfill that promise? We have hope because we know that death is not the end; Jesus is going to return and is going to make This promise is made visible in the water of baptism.

If they listen to you, you have won them over. 16  But if they will not listen, take one or two others along, so that ‘every matter may be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.’  17  If The goal of church discipline at every stage is restoration; to win them back over .

Your faith is a gift, but building it up takes hard work! He is the head over every power and authority. 11  In him you were also circumcised with a circumcision In His life, death, resurrection and ascension, He disarmed the very powers and authorities that seek to take you captive. though you owe your life to God's gift of grace which you've passively received, Paul gives you some very

.” 10  Then the LORD said: “I am making a covenant with you. before you the Amorites, Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites. 12  Be careful not to make worship any other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God. 15  “Be careful not to make As the LORD makes Himself known to Moses, He announces both His mercy and justice: He is compassionate Certainly your circumstances are far different from those of these Israelites making their way through

; without him nothing was made that has been made. 4 In him was life, and that life was the light of Right away in verse 1, John is making several significant theological claims about who Jesus is. While numerous heresies throughout the ages have tried to deny the divinity of Christ, John makes it As John describes it, “All things were made through him, and without him was not anything made that was made.”

You must fulfill your vows, even if you were swindled into making it. The heathen Canaanites, the very people whom God had decreed must be wiped out because of their wickedness , are very much aware of God's mighty power in protecting and providing for His people, which is a concept God had forbidden Israel from making treaties with nations within the borders of the Promised Land (Deuteronomy Know that you must do all that you can to fulfill whatever you obligated yourself to in making these

Make it your business. Another way to translate that would be, Happy is the man who makes God's Word his primary occupation. The question is significant: as people who've been made perfect in Christ, are we now expected to obey In other words, do you you "seek the Lord with all your heart (v2)" with the same intensity that you take Make it your business, and see how God will reward you with blessedness in this life and the life to

What a perfect way to explain what the Bible would be if its primary claim that it is the very Word of He heard the very voice of God expressing His pleasure and love for His Son. But here Peter says in a sense, don't take my word for it! (v20)" In other words, every word of the Old Testament is shining its light on what would be revealed comprised of the words of Moses, David, Peter, Paul and others, it's much more accurate to describe every