Interested in taking hold of the life that is truly life? You're likely not too concerned about making it to work or uptight about getting your daily chores accomplished -10 is a good example of how quickly things can fall off the cliff: 8 If you have many possessions, make The first verse makes a great elaboration of passages like we read in 1 Timothy 6, but the final two verses makes it seem like it's your generosity that delivers you from death!

Nobody ever has or ever will like paying taxes. They were to make themselves abominable by everything unclean and profane, 49 so that they would forget Dig Deeper Our confession encourages us to "learn from" these books, but also makes it clear that these Realize this is the same grace which has triumphed in your life, and never make the mistake that the Pharisees made upon seeing Matthew's conversion, by assuming a person is too sick even for the greatest

us to get rid of this foolish fear— or rather, this unbelief— he says to us that Jesus Christ was “made God to give us his Son as our Intercessor, let us not leave him for another— or rather seek, without ever But Jesus there didn't elaborate on what makes the trees different, only that there are good trees and Dig Deeper The LORD's words here in Jeremiah 17 make sense even when read out of the context they originally

No sin is greater, no sin makes God more angry than blaspheming his name. The significance of this description is that his father’s heritage made him a foreigner, and while those While the consequence is not a physical death, this sin does make one worthy of condemnation.

In addition to the medical concerns affiliated with leprosy, according to the ceremonial law, this made Dig Deeper Kate and I (Pastor Alan) have been married for 13 years, which hopefully makes it safe to Despite our family and friends knowing that we were grateful for them, we still made sure to write out AAA Prayer (About) ACKNOWLEDGE WHO GOD IS: Our Father, who takes pity on His children and heals our diseases ; ALIGN YOUR LIFE WITH GOD'S WILL: Ask God to help you make gratitude the primary motivation in your

They lie in wait for the church and every member of it like thieves, with all their power, to destroy However, as we take a look at Scripture, we see clearly there are spiritual beings - both angels and Paul says that by the calling of the Gentiles the wonderful wisdom of God was made known to angels: for

Making distinctions is critical to having a well rounded theology (an understanding of who and what God is), and it's important to be able to turn to the Bible for guidance when making distinctions. this baptism is part of the biblical witness for the Trinity, helping to solidify the distinction we make

is righteous before you. 3  The enemy pursues me, he crushes me to the ground; he makes That is enough to cover all our sins and to make us confident, freeing the conscience from the fear, Summary Each day as we read the Bible, we practice praying the very passage we just read back to God David's not making an excuse by saying God shouldn't judge him because nobody else is righteous either Certainly David didn't know Jesus, his greater son , who would make this peace possible by giving all

You're forgiven through Christ, but it's the Father's love & compassion that makes it possible. In other words, it's the very character and nature of God that makes forgiveness possible. the cross satisfied the righteous anger that God has for those who cross His good and perfect will, making

cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit. 15 The person with the Spirit makes believe and confess also that the Holy Spirit proceeds eternally from the Father and the Son— neither made He cures that pesky noetic effect so that once again you can "make judgments about all things." subjective judgments based on your own limited experiences, but true and correct judgments that reflect the very