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July 2009 Entries
Worship Preparation | To God be the glory (1) In the Church & (2) in Christ Jesus...Forever. Amen.
Something eternally seismic happened at the cross of Christ, and the empty tomb.
Through His death and resurrection, Jesus "purchased for God from every tribe, tongue, people and nation" a redeemed church. Those who were formerly alienated from God, and therefore, His enemies, were bought with the invaluable blood of Jesus--God's own Son, and infused upon converstion with the capacity to bring glory God's great Name!
The saving work of Jesus is so significant and powerful and life-tranforming that the Scripture says that "the church" will redound the same degree of glory to God "forever and ever" as Jesus--His own perfect and glorious Son--has always and will always bring to Him.
Or in one simple phrase, as Sunday's sermon text puts it,
"To God be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen."
The parrallelism in that verse is nothing short of amazing.
Lord willing, I'll see you Sunday, with a ready heart! John 3:30
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The Heart of The Father
Yesterday was a top seven day in my life. Or, to use the golf scoring system, it was a top-three day! The order goes like this:
- Conversion, March 1996.
- Marriage to the love of my life, July 1999.
- A five-way tie: The birth of each of my children, March '01, October '02, September '04, May '06, and yesterday.
- A trillion other undeserved blessings (Church, Christian growth, family, friends, Providentially ordered pain, Mountain Dew, good books, snowboarding, good conversations, shoes, breathing, et cetera).
The reason I'm publicly gloating over our daughter's birth...
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Love Within Thy Bosom Burns
We're told in Hebrews 1:9 that God the Father spoke in Psalm 45:6-7 of the Lord Jesus saying, "Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated lawlessness."
Two tremendous affirmations are made by God the Father in this statement concerning Jesus...
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