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God’s Gracious Provision—Thanksgiving Day 2023
This is the question of the Lord Jesus after He has healed the ten lepers who had met Him near the end of His prophetic ministry as He traveled to Jerusalem. In accordance with God’s command, because of their leprosy, these ten were separated from other people. Yet, they had a common n ...
Reformation Day
When the conscience is awakened by the power of the Holy Spirit, it is experienced that our own righteousness can never give peace. The poet of Psalm 71 has learned to understand this by the quickening power of the Holy Spirit. David had nothing to report of his righteousness; it was a ...
Enter into His Gates with Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving in our countries is a day set apart annually to give thanks unto God for bountiful harvests and national mercies received and enjoyed. This act of our government is praiseworthy and has been adhered to by all of our churches even as we have agreed in Article sixtyseven of ...
The Straight Street
Ananias, a certain disciple at Damascus, received a commandment from the Lord to go to the above-mentioned street. There he had to enquire for one called Saul. The Lord, whose eyes run to and fro throughout the whole earth and from whom nothing is hidden, did not only mention the name ...
Psalm 139—God’s Omniscience (8)
Peter—I know betterAfter Peter confessed, “Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God,” Jesus crowned this confession with a beatitude, giving glory to His Father: “Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-jona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but ...
Life and Martyrdom of John Hooper (2)
When Mary (a Catholic) ascended the throne, Hooper was one of the first who was summoned to London. His friends, warning him of his danger, entreated him to leave the country, but he refused, saying, “Once did I flee, and take me to my feet, but now, because I am called to this place a ...
Life from the Dead
How can anyone who is dead believe? He can, or our Lord would not have said so. I will show you how. He is a living man as quickened into life by the power of the Spirit of God, yet he is dead. This is the deep mystery, that though he is dead in law, dead in conscience, dead in helples ...
The Man Born Blind (17)
T he healed man has been found by his Healer. The Lord Jesus has a question for him. The Lord has performed a wonder in his life. It is recorded in the words of the healed man, “Whereas I was blind, now I see.” This wonder was life changing, but also because of this wonder he received ...
The Lovingkindness of the Lord
October 31 is still deserving of special observation. On the evening of this day in 1517, a miracle of God’s grace took place that was as glorious as it was mighty. The man who was called by the Lord to perform this act was no emperor or king, no mighty or noble man on earth, no world- ...
Questions from Our Readers
By the word exercise is meant—if I understand the question correctly—the exercises of faith. In Dogmatics we distinguish between the principle (or planting) of faith and the acts or exercises of faith. Regarding the first, the soul is passive as the sinner is quickened when he is dead ...
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