OUTLINE: A Love Letter to God’s ChildrenBlog – 5/27/22 “by grace through faith” -“by grace”: solely by God’s power -“through faith”: solely through trust in God (not self)A Love Letter to God’s ChildrenBlog – 5/27/22 FaithFaith is confidence in God’s trustworthiness (“I can trust God at His word”). It provides conviction under impossible circumstances and […]
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OUTLINE: A Love Letter to God’s ChildrenBlog – 5/27/22 “by grace through faith” A Love Letter to God’s ChildrenBlog – 5/27/22 FaithFaith is confidence in God’s trustworthiness (“I can trust God at His word”). It provides conviction under impossible circumstances and that God will do just as He wills and pleases, to His own glory,
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TODAY’S VERSE: Romans 6:23 “For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” What is eternal security? Let us define each word in the phrase to find out. Eternal means existing at all times; always. Security means protected; safe. So, then, eternal security means always safe or saved.
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The apostle Paul wrote the greatest number of books in the Bible. He was, indeed, a child of God (unbelievers are “by nature children of wrath” – Ephesians 2:3). He wrote about many things that were sacred to him, holy doctrines that have stood the test of time, as well as the assaults of Satan and the kingdom
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OUTLINE: Ro 4:4-5Now to the one who works, his wages are not counted as a gift but as his due. And to the one who does not work but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness.Ro 11:6But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis
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OUTLINE: Jn 10:3bThe sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.Ro 4:4-5Now to the one who works, his wages are not counted as a gift but as his due. And to the one who does not work but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith
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Is it possible to have a zeal for God that God rejects? According to Holy Scripture, the answer is “yes”. Brothers, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for them is that they may be saved. For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge. For, being ignorant of
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OUTLINE: Lk 17:10So you also, when you have done all that you were commanded, say, ‘We are unworthy servants; we have only done what was our duty.’”Who Am I? – Casting CrownsWho am I, that the Lord of all the earthWould care to know my nameWould care to feel my hurt?Who am I, that the bright
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OUTLINE: Who Am I? – Casting CrownsWho am I, that the Lord of all the earthWould care to know my nameWould care to feel my hurt?Who am I, that the bright and morning starWould choose to light the wayFor my ever-wandering heart? Jn 10:3bThe sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name
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The title of this blog may have you intrigued. How could someone Jesus called “a devil” be comforting to us? Isn’t Judas Iscariot the man whose guts were spilled out on the ground after he hung himself (Acts 1:18-19)? I mean, how can one whose death was so gruesome inspire us to comfort in any
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