The Impotent King Pastor Coty Pinckney: Mark [chapter 6] now provides us with a striking contrast between the disciples and Herod. The disciples: in the eyes of the world, weak and powerless, yet through God’s enabling exercise great power; Herod, in the eyes of the world the most powerful man in the region, yet … More The Impotent King
Psalm 85:3-4 You withdrew all your wrath; you turned from your hot anger. Restore us again, O God of our salvation, and put away your indignation toward us! C.H. Spurgeon, in “The Treasury of David” comments: Having removed the sin, the anger is removed also. How often did the longsuffering of God take away from Israel the … More Spurgeon connects Psalms and Judges
Pastor Kim Riddlebarger on Judges 8: In 1 Timothy 6, the apostle Paul warns us of many of the same things that Gideon brought upon Israel. He speaks of men who “teach a different doctrine [which] does not agree with the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and the teaching that accords with godliness.” Ironically, … More WWGD- “What would GIDEON do?”
Paul writes in 1 Corinthians 10 that we are to take heed of the examples of the Old Testament, because we should learn from them and not repeat their mistakes. In verse 12 he warns: Therefore let anyone who thinks that he stands take heed lest he fall. C. H. Spurgeon comments in “Morning and … More Grace and Falling
J.C. Ryle on Mark 6:5-6 And he could do no mighty work there, except that he laid his hands on a few sick people and healed them. And he marveled because of their unbelief. how exceedingly sinful is the sin of unbelief. Two remarkable expressions are used in teaching this lesson. One is, that our Lord “could do … More Unbelief
Some people are terrified of appearing needy. Obsessed with their public image and how they are perceived, they put on a false front of self-sufficiency and self-reliance. Not David! That’s one of the things I admire most in the author of so many of these psalms. He is utterly unashamed to acknowledge before others his … More Our Lack, His Supply: Sam Storms on Psalm 84
John Piper, “The Gideon Venture,” a sermon when the church was considering a building project, sending out part of the congregation to plant a new church, and doing all of this without incurring debt…. …we began to meditate on God’s unusual ways of doing things in the Bible. We saw his strange ways everywhere. God … More The Gideon Venture
1 Corinthians 9:19-23 For though I am free from all, I have made myself a servant to all, that I might win more of them. To the Jews I became as a Jew, in order to win Jews. To those under the law I became as one under the law (though not being myself under the law) … More “Becoming All Things to All Men to Save Some”
“Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace, and be healed of your disease.” Mark 5:34 J.C. Ryle, in his commentary on Mark, reminds us how faith is such a precious grace, or gift, from God: Of all the Christian graces, none is so frequently mentioned in the New Testament as faith, and … More Faith brings an empty hand, receives everything, and can give nothing in return.
C.H. Spurgeon on Psalm 82:8 Arise, O God, judge the earth; for you shall inherit all the nations! Come thou Judge of all mankind, put the bad judges to thy bar and end their corruption and baseness. Here is the world’s true hope of rescue from the fangs of tyranny. For thou shalt inherit all nations. … More Come thou Judge of all mankind
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