Click HERE for sermon audio Introduction In this verse James sets before us the whole aim and goal of this first section of the letter, and indeed what is the aim and goal of our whole Christian lives. This verse is very similar to verse 2, that we are to count it all joy when […]
Blessed
Blessed from Zion
May the Lord bless you from Zion, he who made heaven and earth! (Psalm 134:3) As we come to the Lord’s Table each week near the end of worship, this is one of the ways in which the Lord blesses us, His people. We have blessed His name, and now He blesses us through this communion meal of […]
God is for God
“to the praise of His glorious grace, with which He has blessed us in the Beloved.” + Ephesians 1:6 In my previous blog (Sons, Through the Son) I talked about verse five in Ephesians chapter one. I discussed two driving forces of God’s purpose for adopting us into His family – His love and His will. The […]