Confessions of a Sophisticated Sloth If you were told you had five years to live, would you live more in those five years than in the decades you might have had left? By “live” I cannot mean “lifespan,” or the question isn’t worth asking. I mean to live wide awake, live purposefully, live undistracted by … More The Subtle Way to Waste Your Life
JUDGES 8 CONTEXT: Obedience to God (Gideon. selfless service to God) and Disobiedance to God (Abimelech, prideful greed, and the Jewish people) are the two major themes. Matthew Henry breaks it down this way: This chapter gives us a further account of Gideon’s victory over the Midianites, with the residue of the story of his … More Devotional Thought for Today – 03/25/2022
. Isaiah 6 CONTEXT: Hitherto, it should seem, Isaiah had prophesied as a candidate, having only a virtual and tacit commission; but here we have him (if I may so speak) solemnly ordained and set apart to the prophetic office by a more express or explicit commission, as his work grew more upon his hands: … More Devotional Thought for Today – 03/24/2022
A Theology of Sin and Sovereignty: How Sin Never Disrupts God’s Sovereign Decree “This is my Father’s world: O let me ne’er forget. That though the wrong seems oft so strong, God is the ruler yet.”1 This stanza from Maltbie Babcock’s hymn This is My Father’s World has comforted many Christians since it was published in 1915. It … More A Theology of Sin and Sovereignty
For several years now, the nation’s largest Protestant denomination — the Southern Baptist Convention — has been in a contentious fight over social justice, Critical Race Theory, and what many fear has been an incursion of woke ideology into its ministries. The issue came to a head in Nashville in June of 2021 during a … More Southern Baptists Nominate Tom Ascol, Voddie Baucham To Leadership To Combat Woke Drift In Largest Protestant Denomination
EXODUS 20 CONTEXT: Exodus 20 is all about the Decalog or Ten Commandments handed down by God to Moses on Mount Sinai. This chapter and Deuteronomy 5:6-21 are the two places which we find it recorded in the Bible. Our text today is part of the context of the 4th Commandment Remember the sabbath day, … More Devotional Thought for Today – 03/22/2022
As this article points out, praying for Russia’s defeat is fine, even praying those tough Psalms that invoke God’s wrath. But it is not the end-all. Right in the middle of the Bible are passages that many find uncomfortable. The imprecatory psalms are among the hymns that were sung by the people of God, but … More Praying All of the Psalms Over Russia
The author makes an excellent point that “Christians” are to look long term, (generational) not short term (what is in it for me) in our thinking. Despairing Over the Culture? There’s Still a Reason to Get Out of Bed Tomorrow One of the questions that Christians ask repeatedly at the moment is whether there is … More If Our Society Is Collapsing, Should We Hope or Despair?
LUKE 9 CONTEXT: For this chapter, Matthew Henry breaks it down as follows: I. The commission Christ gave to his twelve apostles to go out for some time to preach the gospel and confirm it by miracles (v. 1-6). II. Herod’s terror at the growing greatness of our Lord Jesus (v. 7-9). III. The apostles’ … More Devotional Thought for Today – 03/19/2022
Question: “If Jesus is our atonement, why did He die at Passover instead of the Day of Atonement?” Answer: Every one of the Old Testament sacrifices typified Christ. The Passover or paschal, sacrifice was a type of the Lord Jesus Christ as the Lamb of God… READ MORE > > >
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