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There is only one true God, but what is He like?
Indeed in light of the infinite glory and majesty of His Being is it possible to know God? Is He not incomprehensible, how can we know the unknowable? The answer is that the infinite God declares that finite man can know Him since He has made Himself known – and that not with resulting frustration,…
The Popular Treatment of God (1 Samuel 5&6)
What can you say about a generation that thinks God is dead and Elvis is alive!
The Yiddish word “chutzpah” seems right. It has no English equivalent, but it refers to one who has an attitude of incredible gall or presumption.
The classic example of a chutzpah is the young man who murders his…
Knowing God (Jeremiah 9:23-24)
Every generation has its set of values and priorities, yet as we look around our own we see it is not really that different to what God declares of Jeremiah’s day.
Some in our day place ‘wisdom’ (whether in terms of education, culture, scientism, mysticism, etc) at the top of the list. Others place ‘power’ there (personal or collective). To them it means…
Behold Your God!
Join us at SYPC in this series of Discipleship Seminars as we will be looking at several chapters of JI Packer’s Knowing God
Elijah (25) Elijah’s Enduring Concern (2 Kings 1)
What do you want to be remembered for? That seems to be a thought common to people as they get older, increasingly wanting to make their last days count.
It is now towards the end of Elijah’s life, and here we find his last recorded public act. There is still a private act to go, but as far as…
Father, glorify your name. John 12:28
We can admire the wisdom and power of God, who can make his people better by their sufferings. Behold, I show you a mystery: sin brought affliction into the world, and God makes affliction carry sin out of the world. God has never intended more good to his children than when he deals most severely with them. He would rather fetch blood than lose a soul. A suffering…
James (26) The Power of Prayer Unleashed (James 5:16b-18)
James gathers all he has been saying on prayer to declare that prayer has great power, and that this is not the prerogative of a select few believers or ‘super saints’ but for all believers.
Of prayer James says that it “avails much”. There are two things we should notice here.
Firstly, these…
Repentance Basics (1 Kings 21:27-29)
What does it mean when a person says they are repentant? The word means to turn around and hence to have a change of mind. In particular in the Bible and for Christianity it is a change of mind not about individual plans, intentions, or beliefs, but rather a radical change in one’s attitude about God and is inseparably linked to faith in Christ and obedience to God’s…
What Is True Repentance?
A proper love for God necessarily involves a hatred for sin that leads to repentance.
James (25) The Power of Prayer: Confession (James 5:16a)
So far, as we have been considering prayer, James as stressed the Place of prayer, and has moved on to the Power of prayer using the real life example of illness. Here he gives us another, and more clear cut demonstration of the Power of prayer – that relating to forgiveness.
The former dealing…