Morning Devotions

Isaiah 25:9-12

March 27, 2007

The telos of God's work will be good and just when everything that has been promised by the Father to his people through the merit of his Son and ministry of the Spirit will be completed and consummated.

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Mark 5:21-43

March 22, 2007

A study of Mark's account of Jesus' healing the unclean woman.

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Isaiah 25:6-8

March 13, 2007

The fulfillment of God's promise of the seed of the woman is anticipated in the prophecy of Isaiah.

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Mark 8:31-9:1

February 15, 2007

Jesus comes as a king unlike any other king proclaiming a kingdom unlike any other kingdom.

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Isaiah 24:21-23; Revelation 21:1-5, 10-11; 22:2-5

November 29, 2006

In Isaiah's revelation of the Day of the Lord it is the glory of the Lord of Hosts that is revealed before all.

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Isaiah 24; 28.1-6

November 22, 2006

Isaiah presents for the reader a model response in light of the predicted final judgment.

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Isaiah 24; 2 Pet 3.8-13

November 8, 2006

The picture of the Lord's judgment is intended to evoke a response from the reader, especially in light of our knowledge of Jesus the Messiah and his imminent second coming.

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Isaiah 24:1-6

October 11, 2006

The end of the world is presented as a cataclysm that is world engulfing where everyone will know that it is from the hand of the Lord.

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Isaiah 24; Revelation 18-19

September 27, 2006

Isaiah 24's vision of the end of the world is picked up and elaborated upon by the Apostle John in the Book of the Revelation.

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Isaiah 24-27

September 13, 2006

The prophet Isaiah identifies two distinct cities with two distinct eschatological outcomes.

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God’s Pure Word

September 1, 2006

Because the Word of God is the life of the church, there is a need for competent and faithful ministers of that Word.

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1 Thessalonians 4:1-8

November 25, 2005

The sexual ethics of our culture is primarily a theological issue, for when God is replaced by a "New God" this makes nearly all things permissible.

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1 Thessalonians 3:1-6

November 18, 2005

The Apostle Paul displays what it looks like when the joy of Jesus is within us.

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1 Thessalonians 2:17-3:5

November 11, 2005

Paul encourages the persecuted church by reminding them of the profound realities of their participation in Christ and his coming again in glory.

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1 Thessalonians 2:13-16

October 7, 2005

The Gospel of Jesus Christ is and has always been inherently offensive to the world.

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1 Thessalonians 2:7-12

September 23, 2005

The Apostle Paul uses three rich metaphors to describe his own ministry that provide for us models as we think of ministry in our own context.

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1 Thessalonians 2:1-6

September 15, 2005

The Apostle Paul attempts to display before the Thessalonian church the value of his ministry.

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