by Adoring God | Jul 8, 2023 | Attributes of God, Jesus Christ
“I will love thee, O LORD, my strength.” (Psalm 18:1) The psalmist’s declaration of his love for God in Psalm 18:1 represents a life wholly devoted to Him—a devotion of first place in the heart that transforms how one lives and relates to the world. So for us to echo...
by Adoring God | Jun 29, 2023 | Jesus Christ, Law of God
“No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will hold to the one and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.” (Matthew 6:24) This passage from our Lord’s Sermon on the Mount delivers a sharp and searching...
by Adoring God | Jun 15, 2023 | Jesus Christ
“I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.” (Luke 5:32) Christ did not come to congratulate the self-sufficient or to commend the righteous in their own eyes; He came for the sick—those wounded by sin, weary of guilt, and broken under the burden of...
by Adoring God | Jun 1, 2023 | Almighty God, Jesus Christ, Man's Nature
“Hate the evil and love the good and establish judgment in the gate; it may be that the LORD God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.” (Amos 5:15) In John 3:16 the Apostle proclaims, “For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son”...
by Adoring God | May 25, 2023 | Almighty God, Jesus Christ, Salvation
“So then neither is he that planteth anything, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.” (1 Corinthians 3:7) Scripture is rich with agricultural imagery, and none more telling than that of the church being called God’s “husbandry” (1 Cor. 3:9) and...
by Adoring God | May 18, 2023 | Jesus Christ, Salvation
“And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins; wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience.” (Ephesians 2:1-2)...