Posts from June 2021

Resisting Corruption from Within and Without

Psalm 119:9–11 9 How can a young man keep his way pure? By guarding it according to your word. 10 With my whole heart I seek you; let me not wander from your commandments! 11 I have stored up your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you. Avoiding sinfulness is an ongoing challenge. Temptations that take us…

A Father is an Example of Christian Devotion

1 Thessalonians 2:11–12 11 For you know how, like a father with his children, 12 we exhorted each one of you and encouraged you and charged you to walk in a manner worthy of God, who calls you into his own kingdom and glory.  Paul, Silas, and Timothy ministered faithfully to establish and build up a new church in…

Trust God, not Human Wisdom

Isaiah 31:1 Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help and rely on horses, who trust in chariots because they are many and in horsemen because they are very strong, but do not look to the Holy One of Israel or consult the Lord! The Assyrian nation comes against the nation of Judah. The Assyrians come…

Gospel Transformation to the Glory of God

Romans 6:1–4 1 What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? 2 By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? 3 Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4 We were buried therefore with him by baptism…