But keep in mind the literal meaning of the Greek word paraklēsis: the para part means alongside (like a parapro, paralegal, and paramedic work alongside a teacher, lawyer and doctor), and klēsis means to

Unconditional Election Point 2 - Limited Atonement Point 3 - Total Depravity Point 4 - Irresistible Grace is not by our own merits or strength but by God’s undeserved mercy that we neither forfeit faith and grace

Unconditional Election Point 2 - Limited Atonement Point 3 - Total Depravity Point 4 - Irresistible Grace suspend the exercise of faith,  severely wound the conscience,  and sometimes lose the awareness of grace

God laughs at those who think they're stronger than His grace! God's grace always has been and always will be stronger than you are!

and what is visible, but our Lord gives what the sacrament signifies— namely the invisible gifts and graces them with all comfort; giving us true assurance of his fatherly goodness; clothing us with the “new man Since through Christ you have become a benefactor of the many graces of Christ, live into this new self

We have been delivered from our misery by God’s grace alone through Christ and not because we have earned This is the nature of what light is, it is meant to be shared.

of Faith, Article   36: The Civil Government We believe that because of the depravity of the human race toward exercising absolute authority, and while functioning in the sphere entrusted to them, with the means

By God's grace you don’t need to figure it out. God will payback troublers with trouble and give relief to the troubled for sure, and by His grace many wonderful doctrine we'll be exploring here in Point Two of the Canons of Dordt as we learn that God's grace

What does the third request mean? A. “Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven” means, Help us and all people to reject our own wills

Faith The cause or blame for this unbelief, as well as for all other sins, is not at all in God, but in man To come means more than just moving yourself closer to God. It means to humble yourself, realize your complete dependence upon Him, by humbly and joyfully singing