Bound by the Spirit
Patrick was bound by the Lord to remain in Ireland.
Salt of the Earth (Why We Need the Church, Part 6)
“You are the salt of the earth; but if salt has lost its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men.” Matthew 5.13
Three uses of “salt”
The declining state of the Church in America suggests – even among some of its own members – that the warning Jesus issued in this teaching has begun to be realized: The Church is losing its “saltiness,” and therefore it is being rejected as no longer needed or useful.
Romans 14:7-13
For none of us lives to himself, and none of us dies to himself. For if we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. So then, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord's. For to this end Christ died and lived again, that […]
God’s Word of Power
Foundations of a Worldview
Numbers 20.6-8
And the glory of the LORDappeared to them. Then the LORDspoke to Moses, saying, “Take the rod; you and your brother Aaron gather the congregation together. Speak to the rock before their eyes, and it will yield its water; thus you shall bring water for them out of the rock, and give drink to the congregation and their animals.”
The Problem with the World
Ecclesiastes 7.27, 28
27”Here is what I have found,” says the Preacher,
“Addingone thing to the other to find the reason,
28Which my soul still seeks but I cannot find:
One man among a thousand I have found:
But a woman among all these I have not found.”
