Years ago, God put it on my heart to start a boys’ home on Long Island. I truly sensed the Lord was behind this work. Yet, after just eighteen months, state officials imposed such stringent regulations on the operation of the home that we had no option but to close it down. We’d taken in four boys during the brief time we were open. After we closed down, I l […]
Sola Scriptura
The Bible is the sole written divine revelation and alone can bind the conscience of believers absolutely.
Sola Fide
Justification is by faith alone. The merit of Christ imputed to us by faith is the sole ground of our acceptance by God, by which our sins are remitted.
Solus Christus
Christ is the only mediator through whose work we are redeemed.
Sola Gratia
Our salvation rests solely on the work of God’s grace for us and in us.
We have a South African Gospel Singer called Joe Niemand. He is a humble, un star-like musician -there is no ’show’ with him. He is a down-to-earth brother in the Lord who happens to have been blessed with a beautiful voice along with an incredible lyric and musical ability.
This album is titled simply, ‘LOVE — scenes from Song of Songs’, and this song is inspired by the Song Of Solomon Ch 6:4-10
Song of Solomon 6:4-10
THE Beloved
4 O my love, you are as beautiful as Tirzah,
Lovely as Jerusalem,
Awesome as an army with banners!
5 Turn your eyes away from me,
For they have [...]
We find out very quickly when faced with adversity, whether we are following a religious creed or following the person of the Lord Jesus Christ, by how we respond.
Our confidence has to be rightly placed, i.e. in Jesus Himself. Oswald shares that, “Many hundreds who accept creeds but refuse to act on their belief; the consequence is they fling their creeds overboard and ignore the central test of Christianity, viz., Who is Jesus Christ to me?”
If our confidence is placed in following a creed or a tradition, we will turn tail and flee with faltering hearts when we see it [...]
I have used this passage by Oswald before, but I feel it is one that needs to be read more than once. Not only read, but ingested that the fragrance of Christ may fill us so entirely that we might grasp the enormity of what the cross was really about. If you follow a crossless gospel or your church is taking you the way of a crossless gospel, run far away as far as you can from it – it cannot and will not bring you salvation dear reader. There is only [...]
My beloved sister Marge, of whom I wrote about in my last post, has just gone home to the Lord. Her family were all with her and her real life is now beginning…
Take your glory Lord for her life, her testimony and her unwavering faith in you.
Praise you beloved Lord.
2 Corinthians 5:1-9
1 For we know that if our earthly house, this tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. 2 For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven, 3 if [...]
I spent the best part of this morning with a very dearly beloved sister Marge, who is on her way home to the Lord, my sister Jill and my dad-in-law, Dee.
Marge is 81 and is dying, not only due to an illness in her lungs from many years of smoking, but also because it is the Lord’s timing.
As I sat with her and gently caressed her hand, she looked so beautiful and soft. Her white hair falling around her face in the little wisps the way that old folks hair goes sometimes and her skin still so incredibly young, but [...]
Do you ever find that your Christian walk is frustrating? Are you trying so hard to be a Christian, yet finding yourself instead so confused and flip-flopping from feeling you are on top of it, only to find yourself failing over an over and want to crawl away in guilt or lash out in anger at the seeming futility of trying to make it work or ‘feel real’? You may even be feeling so sick of yourself and feeling a failure and don’t see the point of going on.
I was so blessed this afternoon reading the wonderful, adoring words of this Psalm…
Psalm 33 (ESV)
The Steadfast Love of the LORD
1 Shout for joy in the LORD, O you righteous!
Praise befits the upright.
2 Give thanks to the LORD with the lyre;
make melody to him with the harp of ten strings!
3 Sing to him a new song;
play skilfully on the strings, with loud shouts.
4 For the word of the LORD is upright,
and all his work is done in faithfulness.
5 He loves righteousness and justice;
the earth is full of the steadfast love of the LORD.
How often we can get in the way and slow ourselves down with our own ideas, behaviours and habits…
Taken from: My Utmost for His Highest – Oswald Chambers
February 10th.
“Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things.” Isaiah 40:26
The people of God in Isaiah’s day had starved their imagination by looking on the face of idols, and Isaiah made them look up at the heavens, that is, he made them begin to use their imagination aright. Nature to a saint is sacramental. If we are children of God, we have a tremendous treasure in Nature. [...]
Reading David Wilkerson’s Daily blog today, (and please do go and read it ) I was reminded of a post I wrote in September of 2008, most part of which is the title above.
It is one of those posts that is still very much a part of my life and I have learned with slow, awkward steps and many scraped knees from falling down, to wait upon the Lord and to listen for His voice a little better than I did at the time of writing it.
I came through a personal crisis last year, that [...]
# Isaiah 42:8 I am the LORD, that is My name; And My glory I will not give to another, Nor My praise to carved images.
My dad-in-law sent this to us and I share it with you now
May Our wonderful Lord Jesus bless you at this special time.
Let us bow down and truly worship Him in Spirit and in Truth.
“Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, who, being in the form of God, did not consider it something to be held onto to be equal with God, but made Himself of no [...]
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