One of the joys we have at CMC is being able to partner in the Gospel with Cor Deo’s Drs Peter Mead and Ron Frost. We appreciate their excellent New Covenant emphasis along with their willingness to allow us to present such excellent content and materials to you.

How do you need to exercise bold faith where Christ has placed you? Your life is probably less than perfect; don’t be depressed or discouraged. Life was not easy for Ruth on this day. But she lived by faith on God’s word. You and I must life by faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, too, regardless of our circumstances.

So you’ve recently come to faith in Jesus Christ and you’ve experienced the new birth. That’s great! We have for you yet another brief study outline that’s intended to clue you in on a few of the really great things that will be part of your blessed experience in Christ.

John Piper writes: There are books you should read at your desk hunched over and ready to wrestle with rarified ideas. Then there are books that you should read the way you stop by a shaded stream. The trust level is high. The expectation for refreshment is keen. Jon Bloom, the President of Desiring God, has written a book like that. I encourage you to get a copy. “Not By Sight”

Among other things a pastor domineers by establishing an inviolable barrier between himself and the sheep. He either surrounds himself with staff who insulate him from contact with the people or withdraws from the daily affairs of the church in such a way that he is unavailable and unreachable.

  The Difference between an Apple and a Tomato   Not long ago a friend of mine became a Christian. Now, I do not say that he “made a decision” or “had an emotional experience.” No, this was a miracle! After years of wandering in spiritual darkness, caring nothing about the things of...

I highly recommend The Father, Son and Spirit: The Trinity and John’s Gospel. I was surprised by the readability of the book (although the last chapter was quite dense) and would not be afraid to recommend it to my own congregation for prayerful/thoughtful/discerning consumption.

Grace is God’s one-way unmerited love being dumped on us without restraint. It’s unbalanced in every way. Praise God for that because our condition was so bad and in ruin that and unbalanced assault of unconditional grace is the only thing that could (and can) fix us.

Though we call ourselves Christians, and would consider it as an affront put upon us, for any one to doubt whether we were Christians or not; yet there are a great many, who bear the name of Christ, that yet do not so much as know what real Christianity is.

Something is happening to us. In this life we might not love Christ perfectly. We might not trust in Him fully. We might not rejoice in Him constantly. But, we should be loving Him more and trusting Him more and rejoicing in Him more. We are in the process of “obtaining the outcome of our faith”.

Our text speaks of a homecoming, and in the culture of that time, it was an unexpected homecoming. We live in such a mobile age, in which we have friends and family scattered around the country and the world, that it is very difficult to comprehend how very hard it was for people to move in that time.

Children who grow up with cohabiting couples tend to have worse life outcomes compared to those growing up with married couples. Prominent reasons are that cohabiting couples have a much higher breakup rate than married couples, a lower level of household income, and a higher level of child abuse and domestic violence.

With our gaze fixed on ourselves we will look to Jesus as one who can offer us benefits, one who can serve our history-long pursuit of godlike status. After all, he can give us eternal life, and a nice heaven, and help us avoid hell, and bless our lives here on earth and so on.

Reisinger sees that the center of this debate revolves around one’s interpretation of the “seed” that God promised Abraham in Genesis 12:2, 7; 13:15; 17. He even goes so far to suggest that “All of Scripture from Genesis 12 to the end of the book of Revelation is the story of Abraham and his ‘seed’ as that seed relates to the rest of mankind.”

Jesus is shown to have the power to walk on water, since walking on water is considered in the Old Testament to be uniquely an activity of God. By walking on water, Jesus thus showed himself to be divine and also greater than Moses. Moses after all had to wait until God made dry land appear before he could lead Israel across the sea at the time of the exodus, whereas Jesus had no such need.

How do you expect to enjoy the eternal blessings of God? Do you imagine that somehow God will just overlook your sin and let bygones be bygones? But how could He do that? Has He not pledged that His justice will be served, and that sin demands judgment?