“Blessed be the name of God forever and ever, to whom belong wisdom and might. He changes times and seasons; he removes kings and sets up kings.” (Daniel 2:20-21 ESVS) As in 2008, the 2010 election has brought about significant change in the leadership of our national and state governments. Regardless of the results, it is …
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Your Father Knows What You Need Before You Ask Him
“And when you pray, do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do, for they think that they will be heard for their many words. Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.” (Matthew 6:7-8 ESVS) How should the words of Jesus - "Your Father knows what …
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God Loved Us First
This past Sunday at HopeSpring we reflected on how God shows His love for us at the cross. The central verse was Romans 5:8: "God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us." The cross continues to show us that God loved us when we were weak, …
Did Jesus Not Know the Hour of His Second Coming?
But concerning that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only. (Matthew 24:36 ESV) These are Jesus' own words describing the time of His return. He speaks of Himself (the Son) as not knowing the hour it will take place. How can this statement …
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Christ Arraigned, We Adorned
This quote came to me via my dad. It is from Thomas Watson: Behold, what manner of love is this, that Christ should be arraigned and we adorned, that the curse should be laid on his head and the crown set on ours. Think again of 2 Corinthians 5:21.
The Law Reveals Our Sin
This is how John Bunyan describes the function of the law in Pilgrim's Progress: Then he took him by the hand, and led him into a very large parlor that was full of dust, because never swept; the which, after he had reviewed a little while, the INTERPRETER called for a man to sweep. Now, …
How the Doctrine of Imputed Righteousness Birthed the Reformation
ESV Romans 1:16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. 17 For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, "The righteous shall live …
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We Are Elect Exiles
“Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who are elect exiles of the dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in the sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience to Jesus Christ and for sprinkling with his blood: May grace and peace be multiplied to you.” (1Peter 1:1-2 ESV) …
The Cross and the “Spiritual”
Consider D. A. Carson's concluding reflection from his exposition of 1 Cor. 2:6-16 in The Cross and Christian Ministry (pp. 62-63): What it means to be "spiritual" is profoundly tied to the cross, and to nothing else... This lesson is especially important when so many Christians today identify themselves with some "single issue" (a concept …
How God Communicates His Glory to Us
In his book The End for Which God Created the World (printed in God's Passion for His Glory by John Piper) Jonathan Edwards describes what God's glory is in Himself and what it is when manifested to us. This is how Edwards describes God's glory within Himself: The whole of God's internal good or glory, …
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