John Piper listed 7 Biblical reasons to tithe in a sermon, “Toward the Tithe and Beyond,” 1. Honoring an Old Testament Principle 2. Honoring the Creator as Owner of All 3. The Antidote to Covetousness 4. Governing Ever-Expanding Spending 5. God’s Way of Bringing About Good Deeds 6. God’s Way of Providing for You 7. … More 7 Biblical Reasons to Tithe
Numbers 17:6-8 Moses spoke to the people of Israel. And all their chiefs gave him staffs, one for each chief, according to their fathers’ houses, twelve staffs. And the staff of Aaron was among their staffs. And Moses deposited the staffs before the Lord in the tent of the testimony. On the next day Moses went into the … More The Budded Rod
John Piper on the love of God: Now think about this. Is the love of God demonstrated to us historically for us to study and think about and know as objective fact (verse 8)? Or is the love of God poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit for us to feel and be … More The Love of God…Fact or Feeling?
J.C.Ryle says this about Matthew 23:1-12- We are now beginning a chapter which in one respect is the most remarkable in the four Gospels. It contains the last words which the Lord Jesus ever spoke within the walls of the temple. Those last words consist of a withering exposure of the Scribes and Pharisees, and … More The Most Loving Heart Uses the Language of Stern Reproof
In “The Treasury of David”, Spurgeon condenses Matthew Henry: God, in this Psalm, “speaketh twice,” for this is the same almost verbatim with the fourteenth Psalm. The scope of it is to convince us of our sins, to set us blushing, and to set us trembling because of them: there is need of “line upon … More Great sin, great Savior!
They arrive at Kadesh in the Wilderness of Paran to the south of Canaan, and in Numbers 13 the 12 spies are sent in to spy out the promised land. After 40 days they return. Caleb and Joshua hand in this report: “Let us go up at once and occupy it; for we are well able to … More God, grasshoppers and boasting
John Piper, in a sermon, “Love Your Neighbor as Yourself, Part 1” said, Matthew 22:37–40: On These Two Hang . . . But let’s go back to our text in Matthew 22:37–40. Here Jesus DOES mention both love for God and love for neighbor; and he explicitly says (in v. 40), “On these two commandments depend the … More Two Great Sovereign Purposes of God
Dr. John Piper preached through a sermon series on the book of Romans that spanned eight and a half years, and has preached 15 messages just from Chapter 3 of Romans! Here is a portion of one, “God Vindicated His Righteousness in the Death of Christ” that relates directly to Psalm 51 which we read today … More Is God’s Glory Cheap?
According to Dr. Sam Storms of Enjoying God Ministries, Psalm 51 has a special message for several groups of people. He introduces his article, When Mercy Scrubs Clean the Soul, like this: First, Psalm 51 is for those who have never come to grips with the horror of human sin and the magnitude of … More Is the message of Psalm 51 for YOU?
Numbers 8:23-26 Retirement of the Levites 23 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 24 “This applies to the Levites: from twenty-five years old and upward they [2] shall come to do duty in the service of the tent of meeting. 25 And from the age of fifty years they shall withdraw from the duty of the service and serve no more. 26 They minister [3] to their … More What does Numbers say about Retirement?
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