For the Shaping of Our Souls Law Matters: The Roadmap for Life (5) Following God’s Law must begin within our souls. I will praise you with an upright heart when I learn your righteous rules. Psalm 119:7 Our Guide will work first of all to impress the roadmap for life on our inward being, ...
Our Guide Law Matters: The Roadmap for Life (4) Jesus has sent us a Guide to help us along our way. “And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to obey my rules… and you shall be my people, and I will ...
. . . [Editor's Note: Republished with permission from The Christian Curmudgeon blog, Sunday, February 26, 2012. The author is the Rev. William H. Smith, a minister in the Presbyterian Church in America] When I was in my ...
The Glory of the Lord Jesus aa March 18, 2012 Lesson: John 2:1–12 Key Verse: John 2:11 aa Introduction Today’s lesson will be taught as a sequence of events; for we have in the second chapter of John a story of our Lord’s first miracle, the changing of water into wine. It is ...
Hear Instruction aaa March 4, 2012 Lesson: Proverbs 8:22–36 Key Verse: Proverbs 8:33 aaa Introduction Wisdom is personified in these words: “She stands in the top of high places, by the way in the places of the paths. She cries at the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming of ...
The Glory of the Word aa March 11, 2012 Lesson: John 1:1–14 Key Verse: John 1:14 aa Introduction The apostle John, whose Hebrew name is Johanan (Jehovah has been gracious), writes his ‘gospel’ with this purpose: “But these are written that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; ...
God so Loved aa March 25, 2012 Lesson: John 3:11–21 Key Verse: John 3:16 aa Introduction A favorite memory verse of God’s children is John 3:16. They are the words that Christ the Son spoke: “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him ...
Our Pioneer Law Matters: The Roadmap for Life (3) Jesus has blazed the trail and indicated the path we must walk if we would know abundant life. Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and ...
Life—on God’s Terms Law Matters: The Roadmap for Life (2) Only God can define the nature and proper course of life. And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, I am the LORD your God. You shall not do as they do in the ...
The Way of the Disciple Law Matters: The Roadmap for Life (1) The Law marks out the path for discipleship. And by this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments. Whoever says, “I know him” but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the ...