What gives you the hope that things will go well for you? Where do you find comfort when life is chaotic and heartbreaking? Our only comfort is in God’s steadfast love and faithfulness.
Read MoreEnglish poetry often utilizes rhymes and meters. Thus the repetition of sounds and the cadence of words play important roles. Hebrew poetry (i.e. Psalms), on the other hand, do not utilize rhymes and meters
Read MoreIn view of heaven’s glory, “the worldling’s pleasure” cannot possibly anything more than a mist. Don't live, then, chasing after mist. We have something better, for “solid joys and lasting treasure none but Zion’s children know.”
Read MoreWe often misinterpret troubles of life. Life’s troubles certainly need to be resolved. But God ordains life’s troubles to disturb our self-confidence and self-sufficiency, all so that we may at last see the deepest problem of our broken communion with him. Indeed, how does it profit us if we have food, but not the Lord?
Read MoreQ. 38. What benefits do believers receive from Christ at the resurrection?
A. At the resurrection, believers, being raised up in glory, shall be openly acknowledged and acquitted in the day of judgment, and made perfectly blessed in the full enjoying of God to all eternity.
Read MoreQ. 28 Wherein consisteth Christ’s exaltation?
A. Christ’s exaltation consisteth in his rising again from the dead on the third day, in ascending up into heaven, in sitting at the right hand of God the Father, and in coming to judge the world at the last day.
Read MoreA. God created man male and female, after his own image, in knowledge, righteousness, and holiness, with dominion over the creatures.
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