• Finish the Course

    4 December, 2011 /

    Acts 20:24 But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God. Paul had a call from God. At the time of his salvation, God already willed in His plan to use Paul for an important mission unrevealed in the Old Testament: that of adding the Gentiles to the church of God. It was to be difficult to break new ground and change the mindsets of the Jews. Paul was to go through terrible hardships and…

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  • Christ, the Hope of this World

    21 August, 2011 /

    Image courtesy Mike McCune (CC BY 2.0 license) on Flickr. 2 Corinthians 5:19 …God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself… God made Man upright (Ecclesiastes 7:29), and very good (Genesis 1:31), but Man chose to sin against the Lord in heart, mind and in action. The first instruction of love – that man was not allowed to eat the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil – given in the Garden of Eden was rejected with consequences. Our decisions affect those around us. God, being consistent with His nature, has to punish sin. Even as He had to protect the purity of the garden and future generations,…

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