1 1  Blessed is the man who does not walk in step with the wicked or stand in the way that sinners take However, when you take a look at some of the passages we explored this week, you’ll notice that God’s While the Law convicts us of our sin, that doesn’t make it bad.  May the Lord ever help us to see the goodness of His Law as believers who have gone before us have, filling

A song. 1   May God be gracious to us and bless us and make his face shine on us—  2   so that your ways God blesses us for the sake of others.

It weighs in at nearly 1,100 pages of very small type, and as its title implies, it explains in significant This makes sense in light of the name God gave Himself: I AM. In fact, the very next thing that Jesus says here is that those who worship God must worship Him in spirit

is incongruent, since terms like before and after are terms that require time to exist in order to make

James, the younger, half-brother to Jesus, would preach to new Christian converts by taking a portion under the right circumstances, can be something more than deceitful words but an act of blaspheming the very To make such an oath, and then speak dishonestly, is perjury.

To hide away light, such as that which radiates from a lamp, is to take away its purpose. share your light might be considered in contrast with Jesus’ critique of the Pharisees practice of making Take some time today to consider whether you are letting the love of Christ shine through your actions

In this view, since you're 'pretty good' on your own, Christianity is merely a tool to make you a little

set us free from sin and from the tyranny of the devil, and has bought us, body and soul, to be his very At times, we may think our hard work, our acts of kindness, our worldly success, or our status make us

This is one of the reasons Paul makes clear in Romans 4 that God had granted Abraham righteousness through

a bit surprised to notice that we'd not yet covered this passage in our readings this year, but it makes surprising to be reminded that the daily problems you wrestle with - which certainly are real and may be very The real enemy - who very well may be the source of your daily problems - are the "rulers, authorities Your orders are as follows: to put on / take up your armor, to stand your ground, and to extinguish the