God gave mankind only Ten Commandments, and provided a corollary set of two laws that summarize the Ten by imparting a most necessary ingredient to the obedience to God – LOVE! “ Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying, Master, which is the great commandment in the [...]
(Here is a Youtube presentation of tune): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsTdv0GMJP8 1 Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. John 14:1 (KJV) This hymn was written by Edgar P. Stites in 1876 and first appeared as a poem in a newspaper of that time. When Dwight L. Moody saw [...]
Today was the Thirteenth Sunday after Trinity in the Endless Green Season. On Point Someone asked, where do the quotes come from? The answer is from the people who uttered them. But, how did you find them? Oh, that. Some from Bishop Jerry, many from Rev Bryan Dabney, a few from other places, some [...]
TWO ‘DEAD’ MEN, 13 And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them. Rev 14:13 (KJV) In reality, there is no such thing as [...]
by Timothy George, June 16, 2017 (Timothy George is the founding dean of Beeson Divinity School of Samford University, Birmingham, Alabama; general editor of the Reformation Commentary on Scripture; and a fellow for the Center of Baptist Renewal.) During seven years of graduate study at Harvard University, I frequently passed through Johnson Gate into Harvard Yard [...]
“And the angel of the Lord spake unto Philip, saying, Arise, and go toward the south unto the way that goeth down from Jerusalem unto Gaza, which is desert. And he arose and went: and, behold, a man of Ethiopia, an eunuch of great authority under Candace queen of the Ethiopians, who had the charge [...]
“The carpenter stretcheth out his rule; he marketh it out with a line; he fitteth it with planes, and he marketh it out with the compass, and maketh it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man; that it may remain in the house.” Isaiah 44:13 (all scripture quoted is [...]
“O clap your hands, all ye people; shout unto God with the voice of triumph. For the Lord most high is terrible; he is a great King over all the earth. He shall subdue the people under us, and the nations under our feet. He shall choose our inheritance for us, the excellency of Jacob [...]
Today was the Twelfth Sunday after Trinity in the Endless Green Season. On Point Someone asked, where do the quotes come from? The answer is from the people who uttered them. But, how did you find them? Oh, that. Some from Bishop Jerry, many from Rev Bryan Dabney, a few from other places, some [...]
The Twelfth Sunday after Trinity. The Prayer of Collect. ALMIGHTY and everlasting God, who art always more ready to hear than we to pray, and art wont to give more than either we desire or deserve; Pour down upon us the abundance of thy mercy; forgiving us those things whereof our conscience is afraid, and [...]