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Imputed righteousness is a bit of a mystery until a clear understanding of imputation is obtained. Albert Barnes, a Presbyterian commentator, writes: Romans 4:3 For what saith the Scripture? - The inspired account of Abraham’s justification. This account was final, and was to settle the...

You are the salt of the earth. But if salt has lost its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It has become useless. It can only be thrown away and people will trample on it. You are the light of the world. A city built on a mountain cannot be hidden. No one lights a lamp and covers it...

Obadiah 1:10-14 For the slaughter and violence done to your brother Jacob, shame shall cover you, and you shall be cut off for ever. 11 On the day that you stood aside, on the day that strangers carried off his wealth, and foreigners entered his gates and cast lots for Jerusalem, you too were...

Vote for tax cuts and watch what happens. .... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6niWzomA_So

James 2:14 What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him? Shall faith be able to save him? He now comes to one of the chief points of this epistle, to show against the disciple of Simon Magus, the magician, that faith alone will not...

I got a good little chuckle out of this.

Salvation Salvation is not so easy to define. Some think of it as a kind of transaction where the sinner exercises faith in Jesus Christ and God forgives their sins and saves them. A done deal, all finished at the cross. Some think of salvation is a quest of sorts where the sinner repents and...

After leaving the mountain Jesus and his disciples made their way through Galilee; and he did not want anyone to know, because he was instructing his disciples; he was telling them, 'The Son of Man will be delivered into the hands of men; they will put him to death; and three days after he...

Wherever you find jealousy and ambition, you find disharmony, and wicked things of every kind being done; whereas the wisdom that comes down from above is essentially something pure; it also makes for peace, and is kindly and considerate; it is full of compassion and shows itself by doing...

The godless say to themselves, 'Let us lie in wait for the virtuous man, since he annoys us and opposes our way of life, reproaches us for our breaches of the law and accuses us of playing false to our upbringing. Let us see if what he says is true, let us observe what kind of end he himself...

My backup phone, a Leagoo S8, has electronic image stabilisation (EIS) for videos. That is a surprise to me. It is good.

Is poverty not the worst form of violence? Because it happens by the exploitation of one by another even if the exploitation is accomplished without the knowledge of the one exploiting others. This is better understood from the perspective where everyone is a child of the same God but here on...

I set my face like flint - expressionless? Is that how you think of the Lord as he suffered beatings and shameful treatment from Jews and Romans up to and including his crucifixion? Isaiah 50: 5 -9 A reading from the prophet Isaiah The Lord has opened my ear. For my part, I made no resistance...

Saint Paul says that man is justified by faith and freely. The faithful are said to be justified by faith, because faith is the beginning of human salvation, the foundation, and the root of Justification. Without faith it is impossible to please God, and to come into the fellowship of His holy...

The Lord, Jesus Christ, died for all, yet not all receive the benefit of His death, his death benefits only those to whom the merit of Christ's passion is communicated.

Do you long to be a blessing to others? Then give some thought to this: Be ambitious for the higher gifts. And I am going to show you a way that is better than any of them. If I have all the eloquence of men or of angels, but speak without love, I am simply a gong booming or a cymbal...

My only glory is the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, which crucifies the world to me and me to the world. Take the case, my brothers, of someone who has never done a single good act but claims that he has faith. Will that faith save him? If one of the brothers or one of the sisters is in need...

We could pray for one another. I pray for nearly all of you, I admit to forgetting some occasionally. I appreciate it when any of you prays for me. Some of my prayers are meditative. Some spoken. Some read and recited. I imagine that each of you has various approaches that suit your beliefs and...

I read this just before going to bed. It looks interesting. It is necessary to show why, besides the particular judgement of each individual, a general one should also be passed upon all men. Those who depart this life sometimes leave behind them children who imitate their conduct, dependants...

Technology marches on and on. People speculated about job losses in 1968 as computers made inroads into accounting, banking, insurance, and government. Most of their speculations about job losses were conservative but some were excessive. We live in an age where computer technology has not...