by Adoring God | Jan 1, 2019 | Bible Reading, Faith, Jesus Christ, Man's Nature, Quiet Time, Salvation, Total Depravity, Word of God, Worship
“If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.” (1 John 1:8) The apostle John leaves no room for doubt about the true condition of humanity in his first epistle, declaring that anyone who claims to be without sin deceives himself....
by Adoring God | Jan 1, 2019 | Almighty God, Attributes of God, Faith, Prayer
“Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.” (Matthew 6:8) The scene in Matthew 6 involves a crowd of people gathered to hear what Jesus had to say. And on this particular day the Lord is teaching them...
by Adoring God | Jan 1, 2019 | Church, Covenant, Faith, Man's Nature
“Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;) That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth. And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but...
by Adoring God | Jan 1, 2019 | Covenant, Faith, Jesus Christ, Man's Nature
“Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.” (Ecclesiastes 7:29) One of the most searching verses in all of Scripture is found in Ecclesiastes 7:29: “Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright;...
by Adoring God | Jan 1, 2019 | Covenant, Creation, Faith, Jesus Christ, Salvation
“All things were made by him; and without him was not anything made that was made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men.” (John 1:3-4) Scripture declares Christ as the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end (Rev. 1:8, 21:6, 22:13). It also testifies...
by Adoring God | Jan 1, 2019 | Faith, Jesus Christ, Salvation, Total Depravity
“For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.” (Galatians 3:26) Assurance of salvation is one of the sweetest comforts of the Christian life, yet one of the hardest to attain. Many believers struggle to feel certain of their standing before God. Yet...
