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Dashed To Pieces
Dashed To Pieces As our sin grows our lives become unmanageable by allowing the sin to become our master. The sin looks different to all people but it is still the same under the hood. Behind the mask of a smile resides the pain of someone separated from God. The list of carnal sins is many and the wretched man that I am is the same wretched man as everyone else. We are all the same in God’s eyes. Isiah (chapter 13) sees something that we see today, but he…
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God’s People Aren’t Impressive. Just Look at Moses’s Family Tree by RYAN WELSH for The Gospel Coalition The Bible is surely history’s most honest book. Its unfettered and brutal transparency about the unimpressive nature of God’s chosen people, even its human authors, testifies to its authenticity. The gospel makes this point powerfully. Jesus, the God-man, entered human history, lived a sinless life, died a sinner’s death, and rose again so that unrighteous, unimpressive chosen people would be reconciled to God. If God’s people believe they’ve been saved by grace through faith—that…
READ MOREThankfulness for Christ and the Joy He Alone Provides
Thankfulness for Christ and the Joy He Alone Provides by James Forbis for Servants of Grace Philippians 1:3-4, “I thank my God in all my remembrance of you, always in every prayer of mine for you all making my prayer with joy,” When I was a child, I learned a song called “I’ve Got the Joy, Joy, Joy, Joy” from my mother, and to this day I can still hear her singing it. It was one of those repetitious songs that you probably heard if you grew up in a…
READ MOREWhom Am I Trying to Persuade?
Whom Am I Trying to Persuade? Looking back through time it’s easy to see what a disaster is left in the wake of ones life. When I look back and see the mountains of debris it is all to easy to see that I was attempting to please others, fit in or satisfy my broken, frail false ego. Don’t misunderstand the debris is still gathering, however, it seems to have slowed substantially. This begs the question, the same question that Paul ask… Galatians 1 CSB 10 For am I now…
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Faithful Servant We are ask to be as the Father and be a servant to others. If we dedicate ourselves to serving others the joy that wells up inside is beyond measure. Love is real. Matthew 24 CSB 45 “Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his master has put in charge of his household, to give them food at the proper time? 46 Blessed is that servant whom the master finds doing his job when he comes.
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