of the Gospel In order that people may be brought to faith,  God mercifully sends messengers of this very As you scour the hillsides, suddenly the image of the coming herald comes into view, and it doesn't take That's exactly the kind of excitement Isaiah wants you to have each and every time you get to hear the Certainly you already know the general gist of what the Bible says, but you need to have an ever increasing

contain the life long wisdom of the Teacher , a character modeled after King Solomon, the wisest man to ever shocking at first, but as we view it in the context of the Proverbs Solomon wrote, it will begin to make With that out of the way, we can begin to make some sense out of it. It refers to the exhaustive search King Solomon made for an upright woman, marrying and taking in hundreds

That we in no way make any image of God nor worship him in any other way than he has commanded in his He tells them to make burnt, grain, fellowship, sin, and guilt offerings. Not just anyone could make these offerings. Only the priests were to make these offerings on behalf of the people, and they are to be done in a very Unfortunately, rather quickly after being ordained as priests, Aaron’s sons Nadab and Abihu make a critical

pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me. 11  Do not cast me from your presence or take Our need is for something outside of ourselves to make a radical difference within ourselves. Rather, he realizes that the only way he could ever find peace with God is for his heart - that is, his intellect, emotions and volition - to be made completely new again. Make David's prayer your prayer as another week draws to a close and you prepare for God to continue

They were instituted by God so that by our use of them he might make us understand more clearly the promise Summary Jesus uses very interesting terminology when instituting the Lord’s Supper. He says to his disciples when they are eating the communion bread, “Take and eat; this is my body.” Baptism is a sign and seal because it points to the sacrifice Jesus made on the cross, and shows us how What can make me whole again? Nothing but the blood of Jesus.

Have you ever thought of yourself as being spiritually spoiled? Romans 8:32-34 (NIV) ... us to get rid of this foolish fear— or rather, this unbelief— he says to us that Jesus Christ was “made God to give us his Son as our Intercessor, let us not leave him for another— or rather seek, without ever Every verse in it is pure comforting truth, and today's short passage is no exception. Confession, and especially awesome passages like Romans 8 - and, as one famous theologian once said, wake

Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me everything I ever But you likely don't take that same attitude in other aspects of your life. woman's testimony only know about her personal experience with Jesus - that He told her everything she ever Son is the only and entirely complete sacrifice and satisfaction for sins based only on how Jesus makes point others to hear the Word of God for themselves, so that they too can know not just how Jesus makes

that Jesus Christ, according to his divine nature, is the only Son of God— eternally begotten, not made The apostle says that “God made the world by his Son.” But this King would be very different than David. Micah here describes our situation; having been defeated by sin and now held under siege until every It's not that He's not part of us - He very much is, so much so that as a man He perfectly represents

And so, Lord, uphold us and make us strong with the strength of your Holy Spirit, so that we may not Somehow you've figured out how to make it to another day, and by using the skills and talents you've While it's good to be reminded of our mortality, that's not the reason the prophet is instructed to make

Indeed we see language like that in this passage from Deuteronomy that every Israelite would have known have - the good things here and now, and especially an eternity with Christ are all a gift of grace made