Archive for July 2023
Continue to contend for justice
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-3bwt8-146166f The Lord will have his way. The scriptures are clear that He one day will set all things right for eternity. In the interim, while we still reside in this fallen world, God also will move justly in response to our prayers. We do not always see the result of our requests for God’s…
Read MoreS191P3 – Ecclesiastical truths: always more to learn
Ecc. 3:11 He has made everything beautiful and appropriate in its time. He has also planted eternity in the human heart—yet man cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end. Oh, the way we twist and pervert the longings that God places in our hearts! This man had billions of…
Read MoreS191P2 – Ecclesiastical truths: some labor in vain
Ecc. 2:18-21 And I hated all my labor wherein I labored under the sun, seeing that I must leave it unto the man that shall be after me. And who knoweth whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet will he have rule over all my labor wherein I have labored, and…
Read MoreS191P1 – Ecclesiastical truths: grief in learning
Ecc. 1:16-18 I communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I have gotten me great wisdom above all that were before me in Jerusalem; yea, my heart hath had great experience of wisdom and knowledge. And I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also was…
Read MoreS190P5 – The faithful bride: markedly unlike the world
Eph. 4:17-19 So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking. They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening…
Read MoreS190P4 – The faithful bride: committed to the pursuit
Song of Songs 3:3-4 The watchmen found me as they made their rounds in the city. “Have you seen the one my heart loves?” Scarcely had I passed them when I found the one my heart loves. I held him and would not let him go till I had brought him to my mother’s house,…
Read MoreS190P3 – The faithful bride: the heart of the martyr
Rev. 2:8-11 To the angel of the church in Smyrna write: These are the words of him who is the First and the Last, who died and came to life again. I know your afflictions and your poverty‒yet you are rich! I know about the slander of those who say they are Jews and are…
Read MoreS190P2 – The faithful bride: carries the fragrance of her groom
Song of Songs 1:12-14 While the king was at his table, my perfume spread its fragrance. My beloved is to me a sachet of myrrh resting between my breasts. My beloved is to me a cluster of henna blossoms from the vineyards of En Gedi. The memorial service following my sister’s death was difficult for…
Read MoreThe truth is the truth, and that’s the truth
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-59tme-1458cc6 Pilate asked the Lord, “What is truth?” Only the word of God reveals the answer. Every question of fact that matters, every truth of any real and lasting consequence for our lives, is found in the Lord.
Read MoreS190P1 – The faithful bride: awaits the day eagerly
Jer. 2:31-32 You of this generation, consider the word of the Lord: “Have I been a desert to Israel or a land of great darkness? Why do my people say, ‘We are free to roam; we will come to you no more’? Does a young woman forget her jewelry, a bride her wedding ornaments? Yet…
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