We’re going back through the first nine chapters of Proverbs investigating how wisdom is ‘given’ to us. Granted, the fear of the Lord is where we must start, and remain, but what instructions, steps, practices follow to insure that we are becoming wise?
Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, spend a year there, buy and sell, and make a profit”; 14 whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then …
“…the priority of the daily bread and butter of the self-pleasing life–that is what takes us into the world, the arena in which Christ’s Lordship is not recognised and where his writ does not run.” The Message of James – J.A. Moyter
“If we are to live for Him in the world, there is a constant issue of commitment, loyalty, to be faced: are we His or are we not? Are we His, not by virtue of a past decision allowed to grow stale, but in the daily pressure of the often small things by which our …
“He who often thinks of God, will have a larger mind than the man who simply plods around the globe.” From Knowing God by J.I. Packer
“Reconciliation is a change of relationship between persons (God and man; man and man) that involves at least three elements: (1) confession of sins to God and to any others who have been offended; (2) forgiveness by God and by the one who has been offended; (3) the establishment of a new relationship between offender …
The Book of James was written for Christians to understand how to live in this fallen world where tests and trials abound. Fortunately, James is a great pastor who tells us like it is, and teaches us how to navigate this life to the glory of God and for the blessing that it brings to …
“…in this small act of dying, I loved my wife differently. I realized that in Philemon and elsewhere, Paul was re-enacting the gospel, Jesus death for us. The word for means the weight of our sins comes on Jesus. Paul uses for when he defines the gospel: “The Lord Jesus…gave himself for our sins.” (Galatians …
“…let the loveliness of the repeated brethren, my brethren, my beloved brethren sink into our minds and hearts until there is born in us a determination that our church will be like that. Let it be a fellowship of rich and poor, who alike consider their faith their greatest wealth; a fellowship of care where …
The theater is just dark enough that the audience can just barley see a lone figure stride out to the center of the stage. He stands there for a moment and then a booming voice is heard from the balcony above; behind the patrons. This offstage surprise is immediately eclipsed by the authority of the …
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