Moment #1 Click here for the message I am referencing. At the 26 minute mark is the gift Pastor Blankenship gave us, when he read this I’ll admit I was kind of wandering off but when he quoted the Hebrews text it was like a punch in the gut I almost lost my breath! At…
"…to the praise of the glory of His grace…" Ephesians 1:6
The Girl with Purple Hair Why’d she have to smile? The girl with purple hair smiled at me today. The girl with the purple hair and nose ring and black lipstick passed me on the sidewalk and smiled. Why’d she have to smile? I was so ready to despise her tromping along in those…
Jesus’ Unbelieving Brothers March 3, 2009 | By: Jon Bloom Do you, like me, have family members who do not believe in Jesus? If so, we are in good company. So did Jesus. And I think this is meant to give us hope. According to the Apostle John, “not even his brothers believed in him”…
God always does what is most glorifying for Himself God always does what is most loving for us. What is most glorifying for God is what is most loving for us. God is glorified in the glory of the Son. The Son is glorified through believing.
I am rejoicing in the doctrine of the trinity this week in a new way. I was pondering the attributes of God [my wife, Rosa has been reading A.W. Tozer’s The Attributes of God :)] The ONE true God has existed eternally in three persons. If this were not so then many of His attributes…
The Gospel is the Antidote to Everything Once there were two brothers. You know their story, more than likely. One was wasteful, exploitative, wanton, licentious. One was rigid, moralistic, uptight, legalistic. Two brothers with two personalities and two sets of attendant sins. But their father loved them both and all that he had belonged to…
Horatius Bonar, writing the preface to John Gillies’ Accounts of Revival, describes true men of God as possessing the following nine characteristics: 1. They were in earnest about the great work on which they had entered: “They lived and labored and preached like men on whose lips the immortality of thousands hung.” 2. They were…
Nine years ago today, the Lord took my mom to be with Him in heaven. I wanted to express my thanks to the Lord for the intentional heritage she left me, my brothers, my children and future grandchildren and in an extended way to my church family. There are many things that Mom instilled intentionally…
A couple of people asked me for the definitions I gave Sunday morning. Below is that section of my notes. May the Lord keep us from legalism and make us a people strong in faith. A Biblical Definition of Legalism: Legalism has at least two meanings that come back to the same core issue. #1…
William Hendrickson There is a line by us unseen that crosses every path. The hidden boundary between God’s patience and His wrath. How far can one go on in sin – how long will mercy spare where does grace end and where begin the confines of despair. An answer from the sky is seen, ye…