What It Means to Walk with God

by Adoring God | Apr 25, 2019 | Attributes of God, Man's Nature, Salvation

“Enoch walked with God…” (Genesis 5:24) English clergyman Robert Bolton called walking with God “the crown of the Christian’s character.” This pattern of life can be observed in Scripture in men like Adam before the fall (Genesis 3:8), Enoch (Genesis...

Grace to Grow in Grace

by Adoring God | Apr 20, 2019 | Attributes of God, Jesus Christ, Man's Nature

“So then neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but God who causes the growth.” (1 Corinthians 3:7 NASB) Have you ever considered how you receive grace daily or how you grow in grace as Peter exhorts us to do in 2 Peter 3:18? Grace...

The Infinite Power Behind God’s Providential Care

by Adoring God | Jan 7, 2019 | Attributes of God, Jesus Christ, Man's Nature, Prayer

“It was not you that sent me here, but God.” (Genesis 45:8)   The account of Joseph’s life is one of the most prominent displays of the providence of God in all of Scripture. Further, though the stories of such notable historical characters as Adam,...

How to Tell the Difference

by Adoring God | Jan 1, 2019 | Attributes of God, Jesus Christ, Law of God, Man's Nature

“Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness.” (1 John 3:4)  The third chapter of this first letter of John to the church is characterized by antitheses: the sinfulness of the Christian versus the sinlessness of Christ...

Chosen and Secure in the Father’s Love

by Adoring God | Jan 1, 2019 | Almighty God, Jesus Christ, Man's Nature, Salvation

“Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.” (1 Peter 1:2) In the first chapter of his first epistle Peter shares...

The Word That Instructs and Guides

by Adoring God | Jan 1, 2019 | Bible Reading, Faith, Man's Nature, Salvation

“For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.” (Hebrews 4:12) The sufficiency of...