Related: Artwork by Tony Reinke of The Shepherd’s Scrapbook
Theology
Despite eight years of new life in Christ, my poor, guilty soul still becomes overwhelmingly anxious at times. A dark cloud comes and just sits over my head, not letting any hope from God’s promises or past faithfulness get through and restore my joy. And it’s my fault. It’s unbelief and sin. God never intended [...]
Question: What is your only comfort in life and in death? Answer: That I am not my own, but belong — body and soul, in life and in death — to my faithful Savior Jesus Christ. He has fully paid for all my sins with his precious blood, and has set me free from the [...]
Question: What is Prayer? Answer: Prayer is an offering up of our desires unto God, for things agreeable to his will, in the name of Christ, with confession of our sins, and thankful acknowledgment of his mercies. Source: The Westminster Shorter Catechism – Question 98
And the beast was given a mouth uttering haughty and blasphemous words, and it was allowed to exercise authority for forty-two months. It opened its mouth to utter blasphemies against God, blaspheming his name and his dwelling, that is, those who dwell in heaven. Also it was allowed to make war on the saints and [...]
And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose. For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. And those whom [...]
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love he predestined us for adoption as [...]
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.” —Jesus ChristJohn 3:16, ESV “Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son [...]
God motivates us to feel and to do what we should by calling to our minds his past performances of love and his future promises of love—some near, some far. Be sure that you are connected to the way God means to motivate you with the backward look and the distant forward look and the [...]
I noticed that YouTube was down for some reason this morning and the videos I’d linked to recently weren’t available so I thought I’d post the audio version of John Piper’s message on adoption.
