Like Jesus, you should be set on serving - even to the extent that you make yourself the slave of all

He infuses new qualities into the will, making the dead will alive, the evil one good, the unwilling But take a moment to consider just how monumental Simon's confession of Christ is. It didn't take long for Jesus to relieve the tension with the very next word He spoke, calling Simon

Once again Paul quickly makes the answer to his own rhetorical question firmly absolute: No!

Mark Futato notes that the final verse of this introduction makes it "clear that the fathers told their

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

As Sinclair Ferguson remarks in Children of the Living God, we can make two mistakes here: to expect

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.

But as important as it is, it's not likely that begging for grace or mercy is very often at the top of blesses us beyond measure - for the earth has yielded its produce far more abundantly that we could ever to pause and take a break - to let the words just sung sink in. God knows what you need; your pausing to take a breath gives His Spirit the opportunity to help you know Prayer (About) ACKNOWLEDGE WHO GOD IS: Our Father, God, our God, who is gracious to us, blesses us, and makes

Lifting up hands in God's name and having a mouth and joyful lips offering praises makes sense when blessings