Christ is the perfect High Priest and has opened the way to God. In so doing, He grants all believers an invaluable possession. At the same time, there is an earnest call to always keep one's eye on Jesus.
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The quest for lasting peace
True reconciliation with God does not come through one's own effort or asceticism, but only through Christ's perfect sacrifice, which gives lasting peace and daily cleansing.
Read more ...Good mood
The gospel of the glory of Christ is the reason a Christian does not lose heart, no matter how hard life may be.
Read more ...The downfall
Only a personal, living faith in Christ Jesus can keep us safe in this time of chaos, apostasy and ruin.
Read more ...The Gospel of Jesus Christ
The Gospel in a few Bible verses.That they may encourage us to offer our sacrifices of praise and thanksgiving to God our Father and to our Lord Jesus Christ! "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten ...
Read more ...Know the Lord
A while ago at a Bible study conference, a text came along from which a certain phrase rather stuck with me. It was the phrase "knowing the Lord" from Hebrews 8:11 "And they shall certainly not every man his neighbor and every ...
Read more ...The Church According to Luke
As I recently read through, more or less "accidentally," the last section of the Gospel according to Luke, it struck me that in this section (Luke 24:36-53), Luke mentions a number of things that you might call "basic characteristics of the church" ...
Read more ...Thoughts on the sacrifices
We have talked about it many times before, how important it is to thank and praise God our Father and the Lord Jesus for the work on the cross of Calvary. The other day I ran across it in the Old ...
Read more ...The hidden things
"The hidden things are to the LORD our God, but the things revealed are to us and to our children forever, to do all the words of this law" (Deuteronomy 29:29). The application of this text is usually ...
Read more ...There was no breath left…
We had the commemoration of 500 years of the Reformation. Pieces of it I have seen, images from Wittenberg and Utrecht. In both places, the Reformation was portrayed as church renewal that should continue to take shape today. A church that remains ...
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