by Adoring God | Jul 31, 2025 | Bible Reading, Faith, Jesus Christ
“He will regard the prayer of the destitute, and not despise their prayer.” (Psalm 102:17) Psalm 102 is a cry arising out of the affliction of captivity, and it is wrought with grief, loneliness, and weariness. Yet from within that groaning a beam of hope shines...
by Adoring God | Jul 24, 2025 | Almighty God, Godly Meditation, Prayer, Quiet Time
“Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither labored in vain.” (Philippians 2:16) Before the congregation ever gathers, before a single psalm is sung or a prayer is lifted, the heart must be prepared to...
by Adoring God | May 29, 2025 | Almighty God, Jesus Christ, Man's Nature, Salvation
“These words spoke Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said,Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee.” (John 17:1) In the grand narrative of redemption that reaches beyond time, there is perhaps no moment more pivotal than...
by Adoring God | Apr 3, 2025 | Almighty God, Faith, Jesus Christ, Man's Nature, Salvation, Total Depravity
“If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.” (John 15:6) There’s a magnificent beauty in the simplicity of nature. Consider, for example, the splendid display of...
by Adoring God | Jan 23, 2025 | Almighty God, Attributes of God, Jesus Christ
“For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.” (Malachi 3:6) The pursuit of knowing God is the highest calling and greatest privilege of every believer. Which is to say that theology — described by William Perkins as having “two parts:...
