Revival

Let’s examine and search out our ways and return to the Lord. We raise our heart and hands toward God in heaven. Adapted, Lamentations 3:40-41 Surely we have sinned and fallen short. Both good and bad, joy and sorrow are part of God’s sanctifying Providence....

For His Glory

Everything comes from God, exists by His power, and is intended for His glory. All glory to Him forevermore. Amen. Adapted, Romans 11:36 The praise of God should be the cardinal object of all that we do. The noblest aim of intelligent beings is to secure Him a revenue...

Being The Best Version Of Me I Can Be

The woman . . . said to the people, “Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Messiah?” John 4:28-29 It’s tempting to get caught up in the comparison game. To look at others and say, “At least I don’t sin like that guy,” or “I’m doing...

The Ordinary Means Of Grace

The ordinary means of grace (sometimes the means of grace) (“OMG”, “MG”) are the God ordained ordinary channels by which the Holy Spirit enables believers to receive Christ and the benefits of redemption (Note 1). They are outward signs of...

Grace And Mercy

God regenerates us not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit, whom He poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior, that having been...

Gratitude: The Root of Both Goodness And Happiness

“The man bowed low in homage to the Lord.” Genesis 24:26 Here we have the Servant of Abraham recognizing and acknowledging the obvious movement of God in the tide of man’s affairs. (Some translations say “he bowed his head.” Whether he...