Soli Deo gloria – by Dave Hall
Value Christian Fellowship“So what is the difference” I hear you ask “between this and valuing the church, which we looked at yesterday?” Yesterday I was arguing the case for valuing being able to come together to worship God and to be in the place where God’s special blessing is upon His people. This is a […]
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Value coming together as a churchProbably every A.G.M. I plead with church members to be at services Sunday AM, PM and Church Night whenever possible. I’ve pointed out many times that the New Testament from the close of Acts to the end of the 3rd chapter in Revelation is almost entirely about living out your […]
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Value scripture and prayer 1 Thess 5:17 Pray without ceasing Psa 119:97 Oh how I love your law! It is my meditation all the day. I hope everyone of us who is truly saved values our Bibles and prayer – something would be terribly wrong if we didn’t. But how much do we value them? […]
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That you may grow in Christ Continuing with what God is saying to the Christian through this, we come to two very clear statements in scripture that speak to times of trial and suffering. Rom 5:3 Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance,Rom 5:4 and endurance produces character, […]
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The fragility of life and The preciousness of life, but what else for the Christian? Walk by faith not by sightOne of the most important ideas that run through the Bible is that of walking by faith and not by sight. Paul asserts in 2 Cor 5:7 for we walk by faith, not by sight […]
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Sorry for the lateness of this blog – having been down the church AM with Matthew preparing tomorrow’s service, I just wanted to enjoy the sunshine this afternoon! – wasn’t it great for those of us who were able to sit out in it? So… Given, as we have seen that God is sovereign over […]
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We will leave the question of why this is happening and what God wants to teach through it to another day. For today I want to simply address the question of: Why should we be glad as Christians that God is sovereign over it? I could give many reasons, but will restrict myself to just […]
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It’s so easy to speak of the sovereignty of God in the abstract isn’t it? I remember reading how R.C.Sproul used to ask his first year students to raise their hand if they believed God to be sovereign? At which point he said every hand went up. While their hands were still in the air […]
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To what extent are you actively supporting God’s government? Romans 13 is one of those amazingly practical and challenging chapters in the Bible. The Jews are under Roman rule which to the devout Jew is a horrific situation. The Romans are gentiles, they claim that their emperor is a god, they deny the existence of […]
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God is not man, that He should lie, or a son of man, that He should change His mind. Has He said, and will He not do it? Or has He spoken, and will He not fulfill it?
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