Our Need for Grace
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.-Romans 3:23PARTIAL IS COMPLETEThe apostle Paul notes in Romans 3:23 that all of humanity has fallen short of God's standard set forth in the law....
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For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.-2 Corinthians 5:21 O God of grace,Thou has imputed my sin to my substitute, and...
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When they heard these things, they were enraged in their hearts and gnashed their teeth at him. But Stephen, filled by the Holy Spirit, gazed into heaven. He saw God's glory, with Jesus...
View ArticlePrayer Changes Us
Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.-Matthew 6:8WHY DO WE ASK?You might wonder, "Why does God insist that we pray to him and tell him our problems? Why doesn't...
View ArticleIn God's Sight
The angel said to those who were standing before him, "Take off his filthy clothes." Then he said to Joshua, "See, I have taken away your sin, and I will put rich garments on you."-Zechariah 3:4GOD'S...
View ArticleA Pleasure to Obey
For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.-John 1:17CHRIST ENABLES USJohn wanted to make a point about God's laws when he said, "The law was given through Moses;...
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Better what the eye sees than the roving of the appetite. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.-Ecclesiastes 6:9WANDERING HEARTEnjoying what you currently have is better than letting your...
View ArticleAlready v. Not Yet
When the sun was setting, all those who had anyone sick with various diseases brought them to Him. As He laid His hands on each one of them, He would heal them. Also, demons were coming out of many,...
View ArticleWatch Yourself
Brothers, if someone is caught in a sin, you who are spiritual should restore him gently. But watch yourself, or you also may be tempted.-Galatians 6:1A SERIOUS WARNINGThis passage gives us a very...
View ArticleBought at a Price
You were bought at a price; do not become slaves of men.-1 Corinthians 7:23CHRISTIAN FREEDOMHere Paul forbids us to become slaves. No doubt he says this as a general guideline against people who try...
View ArticleHis Children
How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! . . . Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known.-1 John...
View ArticleForget Good Works
Listen, O daughter, consider and give ear: Forget your people and you father's house.-Psalm 45:10OUR TRUSTFaith is very fragile and needs to hear the command: "Forget your father's house." Something...
View ArticlePraying Through Psalms
Be filled with the Spirit. Speak to one another with psalms, hymns and spiritual songs. Sing and make music in your heart to the Lord.-Ephesians 5:18-19ATTITUDES OF THE HEARTConsider what the most...
View ArticleSow Grace
Whoever sows injustice will reap calamity, and the rod of his fury will fail. Whoever has a bountiful eye will be blessed, for he shares his bread with the poor.Proverbs 22:8-9JUSTICEYou should be...
View ArticleWorship Out Loud
Ascribe to the Lord, O heavenly beings, ascribe to the Lord glory and strength. Ascribe to the Lord the glory due His name; worship the Lord in the splendor of holiness.-Psalm 29:1-2DEEPER AND BIGGER...
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Now great crowds accompanied him, and he turned and said to them, “If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his...
View ArticleContinual Repentance
Pray this prayer today:O God of grace,Thou hast imputed my sin to my substitute, and hast imputed his righteousness to my soul, clothing me with a bridegroom's robe, decking me with jewels of...
View ArticleActions Can't Repair
All of us have become like something unclean,and all our righteous acts are like a polluted garment;all of us wither like a leaf,and our iniquities carry us away like the wind.-Isaiah...
View ArticleWhy Our Plans Fail
The Lord foils the plans of the nations; he thwarts the purposes of the peoples.-Psalm 33:10STOP AND LISTENWe must do what God wants and stop thinking and worrying about God hasn't told us to do....
View ArticleFaith Comes First
For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.-Ephesians 2:10ONE OR TWO DIMENSIONSYou have often heard it said that the Christian...
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