James 5:2-3 Your riches have rotted and your garments are moth-eaten. Your gold and silver have corroded, and their corrosion will be evidence against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up treasure in the last days. Dr. Kim Riddlebarger, in a sermon series on James: The problem is not with wealth itself. … More He who dies with the most toys wins?
John 3:28-30 You yourselves bear me witness, that I said, ‘I am not the Christ, but I have been sent before him.’ The one who has the bride is the bridegroom. The friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly at the bridegroom’s voice. Therefore this joy of mine is now complete. He must increase, … More The Attention Is Going to Jesus
Ecclesiastes 7:15-18 In my vain life I have seen everything. There is a righteous man who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who prolongs his life in his evildoing. 16 Be not overly righteous, and do not make yourself too wise. Why should you destroy yourself? 17 Be not overly wicked, neither be … More “too goody-goody or too impossibly naughty”?
Jeremiah 23:5-6 “Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch, and he shall reign as king and deal wisely, and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land. In his days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell securely. And this is the name by which … More Nothing But Christ OUR Righteousness
John Piper comments on James 4: So what was wrong with what these people said in verse 13: “Come now, you who say, ‘Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, and spend a year there and engage in business and make a profit’”? What’s wrong with that? What’s wrong is … More If the Lord Wills…
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.” In 1994, John Piper preached a series of 4 sermons from John 3:16. Here is the introduction and links to each message in the series- How many of you have ever in … More Danger, Design, Duty and Destiny
Ecclesiastes 7:13 Consider the work of God: who can make straight what he has made crooked? The following was written by a mom named Laura, whose daughter, Hannah, was diagnosed with Incontinentia Pigmenti, I.P.,a rare disorder, and Cerebral Palsy. She started the website, IP Hugs, to encourage other parents of children with this rare disease. … More For who can make straight what He has made crooked?
Ray Stedman on Jeremiah 20-22: In our last study, in Jeremiah 20, we were, historically speaking, in the fourth year of the reign of King Jehoiakim in Judah, when Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, for the first time brought his armies up against Jerusalem. Nebuchadnezzar made several expeditions against the city before it was finally overthrown … More Heavenly Genie or Sovereign Lord?
4:1 What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you? 2 You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask. 3 You ask and do not receive, because you … More James is really all about grace.
John 3:3-8 Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?” Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, … More Jesus’ teaching about the new birth is unsettling
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