Tag: Lord
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Why Submit? – a letter from Peter – 4
Why should we submit to anyone? If a follower of Christ Jesus encounters difficulty from your community, your boss, your spouse or anyone else, why submit to their will rather than your own? We began last time with Peter telling us the purpose of our good works through Christ Jesus: Submit to every human authority…
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Good Works – a letter from Peter – 3
What do our good works have to do with faith? Peter opens his letter to a persecuted church concerning this salvation with blessings. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His great mercy has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of…
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Jude -2- Necessity is the Father of Exhortation
To Correct or Encourage? Do I just keep encouraging my child, servant or follower, or must I instruct them with words of exhortation? Every parent, master, or leader must judge between the value of correction versus positive reinforcement. Jude, a leader of the church no less loving of the recipients of his letter than the…
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Hebrews 12- Reject Not God’s Grace
Therefore, strengthen your listless hands and your weak knees Hebrews 12:12 NET The author of Hebrews assures us: “We have a great cloud of witnesses surrounding us;” therefore do not grow weary and lose heart. Life’s race shall not be to the finish of death, but to our completion in eternity. In Christ we have…
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Hebrews 10- Come in, Fear not
Dominus autem in templo sancto suo sileat a facie eius omnis terra! וַֽיהוָ֖ה בְּהֵיכַ֣ל קָדְשֹׁ֑ו הַ֥ס מִפָּנָ֖יו כָּל־הָאָֽרֶץ׃ פ The LORD is in his holy temple; let all the earth be silent before him. Habakkuk 2:20 VUL, WlC, NIV Draw near to meet the LORD Hebrews 10: 8 First he said, “You neither want nor are you pleased…
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Give Thanks to the Lord – Psalm 136 & Psalm 95
His faithful love endures forever. Psalm 136 I don’t know about you, but once again Thanksgiving seems to be upon us as a prerequisite observance preceding the rush of the Christmas holidays. Some would observe in political correctness, ‘the holiday season,’ which promoted for lights in darkness and gifts seemingly endures forever. I have previously mentioned this hustle…
