You're forgiven through Christ, but it's the Father's love & compassion that makes it possible. In other words, it's the very character and nature of God that makes forgiveness possible. the cross satisfied the righteous anger that God has for those who cross His good and perfect will, making

is righteous before you. 3  The enemy pursues me, he crushes me to the ground; he makes That is enough to cover all our sins and to make us confident, freeing the conscience from the fear, Summary Each day as we read the Bible, we practice praying the very passage we just read back to God David's not making an excuse by saying God shouldn't judge him because nobody else is righteous either Certainly David didn't know Jesus, his greater son , who would make this peace possible by giving all

cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit. 15 The person with the Spirit makes believe and confess also that the Holy Spirit proceeds eternally from the Father and the Son— neither made He cures that pesky noetic effect so that once again you can "make judgments about all things." subjective judgments based on your own limited experiences, but true and correct judgments that reflect the very

Word of this made it to the captain of the temple, who had the disciples arrested. Instead, Peter makes a bolder declaration in their midst: “And there is salvation in no one else, for Despite Jesus having already ascended to heaven, the Disciples were out healing the sick and making the

Summary The word 'epistle' isn't used much in everyday language anymore, except every now and then to you learn that you've "been chosen according to the foreknowledge of God, and are being sanctified (made

always been some, who look at all of the strife and division in the Church and trace it to these 'man made But not only is every word and phrase of our creeds and confessions meticulously based in scripture,

an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, “Joseph son of David, do not be afraid to take The Son took the “form of a servant” and was made in the “likeness of man,” truly assuming a real human So it makes sense that after trying to wrap his mind around this crazy situation that Joseph "had in As strange as this entire story sounds, it most certainly wasn't something that God was making up as God sent His Son, born of a woman, not just to take away your sins, but to also still your fears.

little children are commanded to honor their parents, that you too will honor the Lord your God in every

For his power and goodness are so great and incomprehensible that he arranges and does his work very People want to hear positive, encouraging messages when they come to church that build them up and make But perhaps the most shocking claim that Peter makes is about God. Peter makes clear in his sermon the primary message of the gospel: that "God raised Jesus from the dead Peter makes this clear as well.

Dig Deeper It might seem like we should be taking much more advantage of the promise Jesus makes in v19 We certainly should be taking more advantage of the this promise, but we also better understand the parameters of the promise being made here. First of all, the promise is made in conjunction with the formal administration of the Church, but although to be coming together to ask Him for, especially now that you've been reminded of the promise Jesus made