Monthly archives: June, 2021

Hope Offered

June 30, 2021 testadmin

Fearing that we would be dashed against the rocks, they dropped four anchors from the stern and prayed for daylight.

Acts 27:29

Because God wanted to make the unchanging nature of his purpose
very clear to the heirs of what was promised, he confirmed it
with an oath. God did this so that, by two unchangeable things
in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled to
take hold of the hope offered to us maybe greatly encouraged.
We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure.

Hebrews 6: 17-19a

To Think Of Safety

June 18, 2021 testadmin

 

 

These have come so that your faith – of greater worth than gold,

which perishes even though refined by fire – may be proved genuine
and may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed.
1 Peter 1:7

“You ask me what I shall do if I am called by the emperor. I will
go even if I am too sick to stand on my feet. If Caesar calls me,
God calls me. If violence is used, as well it may be, I commend my
cause to God. He lives and reigns who saved the three youths from
the fiery furnace of the king of Babylon, and if He will not save me,
my head is worth nothing compared with Christ.

This is no time to think of safety.

I must take care that the gospel is not brought into contempt

by our fear to confess and seal our teaching with our blood.”

 

 

(Source: Roland H. Bainton, Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther (1950)(Hendrickson, p. 167).

 

 

Courage to Continue

June 17, 2021 testadmin

“Success is not final,

failure is not fatal:

it is the courage to continue that counts.

Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

Ashamed

June 1, 2021 testadmin

If anyone is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation,
the Son of Man will be ashamed of him when he comes in his Father’s glory with
the angels.

Mark 8:38