Today is a gentle reminder, just in case we are lulled into thinking maybe our salvation or our relationship with Jesus Christ has anything to do with us, make no mistake... our redemption is God's glory, and only His! We learn today, starting with Ephesians 1:11 to 14 and turning to various passages in Scripture, that only by grace and by faith, by God's seal, we are His as believers. Our only purpose is to believe and to be transformed!
Prayer is what fuels the Christian spiritual life. Jesus gave us the Lord's Prayer as a template for how we ought to pray, and...
Severe consequences resulted when God's people wandered away in disobedience. In today's text we see that compromise ultimately led to disaster for the Israelites...