Weekly Article (Page 34)

From Paul’s prayer in Eph 1:15-23 we learn that Paul’s prayer life is anchored in the adoration of God. Paul has been singing the praises of the God of all grace. In vv.1-14 we have a backdrop that explains and glories in God’s plan of salvation – from election before time began to the final salvation of which the indwelling Spirit is the guarantee. The continual refrain…

These were Job’s perplexing questions (Job 23:1-9). Sometimes they are also our questions. Where’s God? And what’s He doing? And sometimes our answers are, “I do not know. And. I do not know.” But Job provides us with better answers. God knows where I am. “He knows the way that I take” (23:10a). Although I don’t know where God is and I may not even know where I am, God…

There is no attribute more comforting to His children, than that of God’s sovereignty. Under the most adverse circumstances, in the most severe trials — they believe that sovereignty has ordained their afflictions, that sovereignty overrules them, and that sovereignty will sanctify them all. There is nothing for which the children of God ought more earnestly…

In this meditation John Owen brings us face to face with the glorious mystery of the incarnation which we celebrate at Christmas: But had we the tongue of men and angels, we were not able in any just measure to express the glory of this condescension; for it is the most ineffable effect of the divine wisdom of the Father and of the love of the Son, — the highest evidence…

My God, Thou art all my good in times of peace, my only support in days of trouble, my one sufficiency when life shall end. Help me to see how good Thy will is in all, and even when it crosses mine teach me to be pleased in it. Grant me to feel Thee in fire, and food and every providence, and to see that Thy many gifts and creatures are but Thy hands and fingers taking…

As one looks over the geography of the Book of Exodus a clear and somewhat surprising pattern emerges as Daniel Hyde draws our attention to in ‘God in Our Midst’. Exodus takes place in three geographic locations. The story opens where Genesis ends—with Israel in Egypt—and continues there in chapters 1–13 (cf. Gen. 50:22–26). After leaving Egypt in the dark of night, the…

The Scriptures plainly declare that “the Lord has established his throne in heaven and his kingdom rules over it” (Ps 103:19). Christ is the Lord over his creation. His throne is in heaven, and He is king over creation. This kingship is ‘His official power to rule all things in heaven and on earth, for the glory of God, and for the execution of God’s…

The priestly office of Christ occupies a major place in the NT and includes not only a discussion of the office itself, but also of Christ’s sacrificial death to redeem sinners from their sin. In Hebrews we are told “to fix your thoughts on Jesus, the apostle and high priest whom we confess” (Heb 3:1). We are informed that we “have a great high priest who has gone…

It was John Calvin who brought the so-called ‘threefold office’ of Christ into prominence. The threefold office presents Jesus Christ as prophet, priest, and king, who in his saving work, fulfilled all the anointed offices of the Old Testament. For Calvin, ‘the Son of God, therefore, is not properly called Christ apart from his office, for it is there, in his official…

“Hosanna! Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!” (Mk 11:9) For the Jewish people the story of the Triumphal Entry, as we call it, is a story of misplaced and disappointed expectations.  The Jews were looking for one thing and Jesus was another.  They expected and wanted so badly a…