Generated with Google Gemini. Stephen stood before the Sanhedrin accused of speaking blasphemous words against God and Moses. In response, he sought to demonstrate through the retelling of Israel’s sacred history that the followers of Christ stood in continuity with all the Israelites who honored and respected God and Moses invalidating the charges against him. … Continue reading Stephen the First Martyr Part 3: Testifying to the Prophet Like Moses Sent by God
Athenagoras: Worship the Composer, Not the Instrument
Beautiful without doubt is the world, excelling, as well in its magnitude as in the arrangement of its parts, both those in the oblique circle and those about the north, and also in its spherical form. Yet it is not this, but its Artificer, that we must worship. For when any of your subjects come … Continue reading Athenagoras: Worship the Composer, Not the Instrument
Charles Spurgeon: Who is a pardoning God like thee? Or who hath grace so rich and free?
Pause then, O Christian, and thus soliloquize: “I once scorned him who loved me with an everlasting love, I once esteemed him as a root out of a dry ground. I served him not, I cared not for his blood, his cross, or his crown; and yet I am now become one of his own … Continue reading Charles Spurgeon: Who is a pardoning God like thee? Or who hath grace so rich and free?
A.W. Tozer: Our woes began when God was forced out of His central shrine.
Our woes began when God was forced out of His central shrine and “things” were allowed to enter. Within the human heart “things” have taken over. Men have now by nature no peace within their hearts, for God is crowned there no longer, but there in the moral dusk stubborn and aggressive usurpers fight among … Continue reading A.W. Tozer: Our woes began when God was forced out of His central shrine.
Francis Schaeffer: Much can come from little if the little is truly consecrated to God.
The Scripture emphasizes that much can come from little if the little is truly consecrated to God...