Taste and See
We should look to God to be our constant aid in time of trouble. Consider the testimony of the Psalms:
“I sought the Lord, and he heard me, And delivered me from all my fears. They looked unto him, and were lightened: And their faces were not ashamed. This poor man cried, and the…
The end of Philippians 2:12 reads, “Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling” and if you’re anything like me, that verse at some point may have conjured images of us searching through the Bible looking for exactly the right formula for God to save us, all the while being afr…
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When the Apostle Peter was expounding the work of salvation to Cornelius he summarised the work of our Lord in this way: “God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil [diabolos]; for God was …
There is a story about a businessman who rode the subway into downtown New York every day. He took the escalator up to the street and walked to the corner where he bought a newspaper from a little boy yelling, “Paper! Paper!” at the top of his lungs. The man smiled, handed the boy a quarter for …
“Wisdom doesn’t necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.” It was Elihu who observed, “Great men are not always wise: neither do the aged understand judgment”. There are some who have had twenty years’ experience, and there are others who have had one year�…
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Our reading contains some challenging words of the Lord: “Why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and do not do the things which I say? I will show you what he is like who comes to me and hears my words and puts them into practice. He is like a man building a house who dug down deep and laid the fou…
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