Jesus gave the shortest, most powerful sermon ever, and it's good news for you! Every eye, Luke writes, was fastened on Jesus. Jesus then delivers one of the shortest, most powerful sermons ever preached: Today this scripture is

that Jesus Christ, according to his divine nature, is the only Son of God— eternally begotten, not made The apostle says that “God made the world by his Son.” those viewpoints, but you don't need to wonder or speculate Jesus' primary reason for coming, since He makes

That is enough to cover all our sins and to make us confident, freeing the conscience from the fear, The point here is that we take our very refined ability to outwardly look very differently than we inwardly So our Confession warns, if you try to appear before God relying on your ability to make yourself look

God's grace is stronger than we are, and how it is that He produces both our will to believe and our very Sadducees, the majority political/religious party in Jerusalem. 27  The apostles were brought in and made “Yet you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching and are determined to make us guilty of this man’s here harmonize all of scripture as they unpack the truth that Peter scolds the Sanhedrin with: the very This is the very essence of Reformed theology.

This renewal process looks different in every person; some are quite obviously gifted while others have

It takes more than good stuff to have a good life. They embrace celibacy, they eat only the plainest and most basic foods, and go to great lengths to make While there may be very particular instances when a Christian is called to completely isolate himself Ecclesiastes is often mistakenly considered to be a very dour, pessimistic book. for you to "find satisfaction in your toil" is to thank God often throughout the day, and continue to make

“Give us today our daily bread” means, Do take care of all our physical needs so that we come to know Jesus isn't calling you to take a life long vacation as you count on your daily bread getting shipped Instead, Jesus calls you to seek first His kingdom and righteousness, and He makes an extraordinary promise Dig Deeper Jesus here is telling you to make a shift in attitude more so than a change in your daily

hearing, they do not hear or understand. 14 In them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah: “ ‘You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving. 15 For this people’ someone who hears the word, but the worries of this life and the deceitfulness of wealth choke the word, making While there are different levels of fruitfulness, the fact that the word was heard and understood makes Some will hear the Gospel but will not have it take hold.

But it is very pleasant and a great comfort to the righteous and elect, since their total redemption Summary There's no greater compliment that Paul could ever give to a church than what he writes here Good Christians who agree on nearly every other doctrine will often come to different conclusions in Some Christians take difficult passages from apocalyptic books like Revelation or Daniel and then try

is likely full of blogs & podcasts today optimistic about the coming year encouraging you to finally make AAA Prayer (About) A CKNOWLEDGE WHO GOD IS : Our Father, who made our salvation possible by sending