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As a tree planted

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He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers. The wicked are not so, but are like chaff that the wind drives away. Ps 1:3-4 In light of the emptiness of the ungodly life, how can one become godly, blessed, and happy? How can one truly live the “more abundant life” that Christ came to give? In this sermon on Psalm 1:3–4 titled “As a Tree Planted,” many think they are Christians, but in this inspiring discourse, Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones distinguishes the person who is unquestionably “in Christ” from those who merely deceive themselves. No one is born a Christian or can make themselves a Christian. A Christian is the work of God through the work of the Holy Spirit in conviction, revelation, repentance, and conversion. It’s God’s doing and one can only experience the new birth into a new life as the result of the operation of the Spirit. ... Her...
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by Your great power

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Ah, Lord GOD! It is you who have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm! Nothing is too hard for you! Jer 32:17 Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh. Is anything too hard for me? Jer 32:27
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Children of God

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See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him. Beloved, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is. And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure. 1 John 3:1-3
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About Paul's conversions

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Tom Wright About Paul's conversions Q. Talking about Paul the Apostle and I was thinking Tom about his remarkable, supernatural, dramatic conversion. Why doesn't the Lord do that more often? A. It's a good question. But probably a third of the questions that people ask me are about : why did God do this or why does God do that? And my usual response is you better ask him... ...I think here it's quite clear that something dramatic had to happen because here is, if you like, God's sense of humor that when God wants to reach out to the great, unwashed, idolatrous Gentile world, who does he call to do that? A hardline, zealous, pharisaic Jew. Because if it had been a kind of anything goes sort of Jew who had always been a bit soft on Torah, etc. If such a person had gone off to say to Gentiles, by the way, "the God of Israel loves you too", then everyone would have said, "well, of course, you would say that because that was the way you ...
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We have come to the Heavenly Jerusalem

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..you have come to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God (the heavenly Jerusalem), to myriads of angels in festive gathering, to the assembly of the firstborn whose names have been written[a] in heaven, to God who is the Judge of all, to the spirits of righteous people made perfect... Hebrews 12:22-23 {Holman C.S.B.}     The apostle uses past tens here. ☆
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