Everlasting to Everlasting

Numbers are the musical notes with which the symphony of the universe is written.

Is this really what Christianity has come to, that we're debating Fifty Shades of Grey and yoga pants?

These are the great purposes for the coming of Jesus: glory ever ascending from man to God. Peace ever descending from God to man.

In the works of creation, God is above us; in his works of providence, he is outside is; in the law, he is against us; in himself, he is invisible to us. Only in Christ is he Immanuel, God manifested in our flesh. He is God in us, God with us, and God for us. Therefore, no man ever did it ever can understand anything of God truly, that is, upon a saving account, except in and by Jesus Christ

Let none doubt their calling because it came not with sound of the trumpet; let them not sit down to measure their own feelings by those of other men, and because they're not precisely the same, at once conclude that they are no children of the kingdom. No two leaves upon a tree are precisely alike - variety is the rule of nature; the line of beauty runs not in one undercoating course; and in grace the same rule holds good. Do not, therefore, desire another man's repentance, or thy brother's apprehensions of wrath. Be not wishful to try the depth of the cavern of misery, but rather rejoice that thou hast a partial immunity from its glooms.

Take the very personal words of the apostle Paul and make them your own. “The life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me” (Gal. 2:20). This is how [Jesus] destroyed the works of the Devil and rescued us from our sin. Don’t leave Christmas in the abstract. Your sin. Your conflict with the Devil. Your victory. He came for this.

If we do not live all by faith, we do not live at all by faith.