Acts 13:42-48 (NIV) CONTEXT: Paul & Barnabas preached the gospel in a synagogue in Antioch, and the people Listen to passage & devotional: Belgic Confession of Faith, Article 16: The Doctrine of Election We believe Romans 1:16 says that the gospel - that is, the message of the good news of salvation through Jesus Christ Most of the verses that come before today's passage in chapter 13 record the first powerful sermon Paul

Faithlife.com Daniel 7:1–14 (NASB95) 1 In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon His throne was ablaze with flames, Its wheels were a burning fire. 10 “A river of fire was flowing And I kept looking until the beast was slain, and its body was destroyed and given to the burning fire. 12 For all those who died before that time will be raised from the earth, their spirits being joined and As John Calvin famously wrote, "where God closes His mouth, there I will desist my inquiries."

to task for tolerating such an ugly sin and instructed them to "expel the wicked man from among you (1 ASK GOD FOR WHAT YOU NEED: Read the New Testament in a year, a chapter a day - 1 Corinthians 4

Listen to passage & devotional: Belgic Confession of Faith, Article 1 We all believe in our hearts and

Psalm 121 (NIV) A song of ascents. 1 I lift up my eyes to the mountains— where does my help come from Listen to passage & devotional: Belgic Confession of Faith, Article 13: The Doctrine of God’s Providence Summary Psalm 121 comes in a section of the Psalter which is known as the Songs of Ascents. As you walk the difficult route Christ has called you to follow, be sure to sing Psalm 121 to yourself

Listen to passage & devotional: Belgic Confession of Faith, Article 1 We all believe in our hearts and that follows this, he's right back in the saddle again (The very next words famously begin chapter 12 because you don't understand what's going on, remember this tremendous doxology at the end of Romans 11 Today: Mark 10

Romans 9:6-16 (NIV) CONTEXT: Romans nine is one of the most difficult chapters in the Bible, dealing  not by works but by him who calls—she was told, “The older will serve the younger.” 13 Just as it is written: “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.” 14 What then shall we say? 15 For he says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom love) while not only Esau, but also his descendents after him, would be set apart from it (Malachi 1:

type of national baptism, that as God's people passed through the sea, they came to belong to Him (1 Corinthians 10:1-2). In the next chapter, Exodus 20, God expresses these covenantal stipulations in 10 categories we often

Listen to passage & devotional: Belgic Confession of Faith, Article 1 We all believe in our hearts and bringing salvation to those "far from [His] righteousness" by "bringing [His] righteousness near" (v12-13

the invisible things of God: his eternal power and his divinity, as the apostle Paul says in Romans 1: Summary When we looked at the first half of Psalm 19 earlier this week, we saw how the beauty, order Today: Mark 14