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No Acknowledgment

“There is no faithfulness, no love, no acknowledgment of God in the land. There is only cursing, lying and murder, stealing and adultery; they break all bounds, and bloodshed follows bloodshed. Because of this the land mourns, and all who live in it waste away;

the beasts of the field and the birds of the air and the fish of the sea are dying.” Hosea 4:1b-3

my people are destroyed from lack of knowledge. “Because you have rejected knowledge, I also reject you as my priests; because you have ignored the law of your God, I also will ignore your children.” Hosea 4:6

And it will be: Like people, like priests. I will punish both of them for their ways and repay them for their deeds.

Hosea 4:9

For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and acknowledgment of God rather than burnt offerings.
Hosea 6:6

Ignite A Flame

August 1, 2021 testadmin

“Ignite a flame in our hearts that we may not neglect you,

but pursue you with everything we have.”

The final request to God from Dr. R.C. Sproul (1939-2017) In his concluding prayer from his last sermon, “A Great Salvation”, to the congregation at St. Andrew’s Chapel in Sanford, FL on November 26, 2017

If

July 31, 2021 testadmin

If you have complete faith, you will have unlimited courage.

anonymous

Atheists and Those Preachers

July 30, 2021 testadmin

“Avowed atheists are not a tenth as dangerous as those preachers who scatter doubt and
stab at faith…Germany was made unbelieving by her preachers, and England is following
in her tracks.”
-Charles Spurgeon (1832-1892)

Woe To Those

July 24, 2021 testadmin

Woe to those who rise early in the morning
to run after their drinks,
who stay up late at night
till they are inflamed with wine.

They have harps and lyres at their banquets,
tambourines and flutes and wine,
but they have no regard for the deeds of the Lord,
no respect for the work of his hands. Isaiah 5:11-12

Woe to those who draw sin along with cords of deceit, and wickedness as with cart ropes,

Isaiah 5:18

Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put
darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter
for sweet and sweet for bitter. Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and

clever in their own sight.

Isaiah 5:20-21

Therefore the Lord’s anger burns against his people; his hand is raised and he strikes them down.
The mountains shake, and the dead bodies are like refuse in the streets.

Yet for all this, his anger is not turned away, his hand is still upraised.

He lifts up a banner for the distant nations,

he whistles for those at the ends of the
earth. Here they come, swiftly and speedily!

Not one of them grows tired or stumbles, not one slumbers or sleeps;
not a belt is loosened at the waist, not a sandal strap is broken.

Their arrows are sharp, all their bows are strung; their horses’ hooves seem like flint,
their chariot wheels like a whirlwind.

Their roar is like that of the lion, they roar like young lions; they growl as they seize
their prey and carry it off with no one to rescue. In that day they will roar over it like
the roaring of the sea.

And if one looks at the land, he will see darkness and distress;

even the light will be darkened by the clouds.

Isaiah 5:25-30

Fear

July 18, 2021 testadmin

“It is only the fear of God that can deliver us from the fear of man.”

John Witherspoon (1723-1794)

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