Category: His Word for You

  • Look to Christ and Live

    Look to Christ and Live
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    “So, Moses made a bronze serpent and set it on a pole. And if a serpent bit anyone, he would look at the bronze serpent and live.” Numbers 21:9 The Lord’s people must not be grumblers, complainers, and whiners! Back in the Old Testament times, Israel had been given their freedom from slavery in the Read more

  • Immanuel… God with Us

    Immanuel… God with Us
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    “Therefore, the Lord Himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call His name Immanuel.” Isaiah 7:14 Truly this has been our need from the beginning.  Immanuel…God with us.  In our pain, in our sorrows, in our fears, in our grief, in our life and in Read more

  • His Word for You

    His Word for You
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    Easy Believism & Self-Deception “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.  On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your Read more

  • God’s Holiness and Man’s Depravity

    God’s Holiness and Man’s Depravity
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    “How great are your works O LORD!  How unfathomable your thoughts!” Psalm 92:5 Good theology is multi-faceted, comprehensive, and accumulative, ever-building upon itself line upon line, precept upon precept.  If the poured foundation at the beginning is skewed, everything built upon that foundation will be off kilter.  However, if the plumb-bob of God’s Word is Read more

  • Look to Christ

    Look to Christ
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    “I am still confident of this:  I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.” Psalm 27:13 Can you earnestly say this short psalm that was penned by the shepherd King David so many years ago?  If you have been redeemed by the blood of the Lamb then the answer Read more

  • O Death, Where Is Your Sting?

    O Death, Where Is Your Sting?
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    “O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?  The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law; but thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ” (1 Corinthians 15:57). For the elect of God, death has lost its sting forever Read more

  • Take Heed Lest You Fall

    Take Heed Lest You Fall
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    “Let anyone who thinks that he stands take heed lest he fall.” 1 Cor. 10:12 Last week the unfortunate news broke that famed pastor, author, and preacher Steven J. Lawson was removed from his ministerial duties due to an “inappropriate relationship with a woman”. The official announcement gave no additional details about the sin itself. Read more

  • Monergistic Theology

    Monergistic Theology
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    “And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, He interpreted to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself.”  “Then He opened their minds to understand the Scriptures.”  Luke 24:27, 45 Those who think they can understand the Scriptures apart from the grace of Divine enablement, err greatly. Spiritual truths are spiritually discerned and Read more

  • Mercies in Christ

    Mercies in Christ
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    “David said to him, ‘do not fear, for I will surely show kindness to you for the sake of your father Jonathan, and will restore to you all the land of your grandfather Saul; and you shall eat at my table regularly.’  Again he prostrated himself and said, ‘what is your servant, that you should Read more

  • Contentment During Abundance

    Contentment During Abundance
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    “I have learned in whatever situation I am to be content. I know how to be brought low, and I know how to abound. In any and every circumstance, I have learned the secret of facing plenty and hunger, abundance and need.” Philippians 4:11, 12 For the Christian to know contentment in lowliness and adversity Read more