Make Sure Your Calling

“Wherefore, the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure—for, if you do these things, you shall never fall.” II Peter 1:10 It’s only by His Grace that we enter in—and it’s only by His Grace that we endure and make sure. Security and...

Faith’s Additives

“And besides this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue. . .and to virtue, knowledge. . . and to knowledge, temperance. . .and to temperance, patience… and to patience, Godliness. . . and to Godliness, brotherly kindness. . .and to brotherly kindness,...

On Loving As Jesus Does

“Then said the Lord, ‘You have had pity on the gourd, for the which you have not labored, neither made it grow—which came up in a night and perished in a night.  And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that...

On Anger and Bitterness

“But it displeased Jonah exceedingly and he was very angry. . .Then said the Lord, ‘Do you well to be angry?’. . .And he said, ‘I do well to be angry, even unto death’.” Jonah 4:1, 4, 9b The Lord will still use us even when our heart’s not right with Him; but,...

Nothing Is Impossible With God

“So the people of Nineveh believed God and proclaimed a fast and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them—for word came unto the king of Nineveh and he arose from his throne and he laid his robe from him and covered himself with sackcloth...

When the Task Is Too Great

“So Jonah arose and went unto Nineveh, according to the Word of the Lord.  Now Nineveh as an exceedingly great city of three days’ journey.  And, Jonah began to enter into the city a day’s journey and he cried and said, ‘Yet 40 days and Nineveh shall be overthrown’.”...

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