May 5, 2017
by Clint Humfrey
| Tags: Glory, Creator, Gospel
One of the classic examples of an awakened recognition of the gravity of God came to the ancient prophet Isaiah when he had a supernatural vision of the khavod of God. Isaiah saw that God was morally pure-- triple deluxe pure so that angelic beings could not view God directly because their creaturely eyeballs would fry if they looked at God’s holy purity. And these angel...
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February 18, 2017
by Paul Toews
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Category:
Life Application
| Tags: nature, Truth, Glory
Without a recognition of a glorious God, there can be no moral underpinnings. People have the law of God written on their hearts and by nature know what is right or wrong (Romans 2:14-15), but this has been eclipsed by human principles that have deemed that offending others is the ultimate wrong. If humanity is seen as most glorious, then there can be no sense of wrongn...
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July 22, 2016
by Paul Toews
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Category:
The Gospel
| Tags: Glory, humanity, Mediator
The fact that Jesus took on the form of a man so that he could effectively mediate between man and God is one of the greatest truths we can think about....
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July 15, 2016
by Paul Toews
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Category:
Devotionals
| Tags: Faith, Glory, Hope, Meditation
In scripture we read that Christ is the image of God (2 Cor. 4:4). He makes the invisible God visible (Col. 1:15). God is glorious and in beholding Christ we behold that glory. In Christ, God himself, his Being and the mystery of his existence in three distinct persons, was gloriously revealed to believers, and the light of the knowledge of these truths dispelled all those...
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July 1, 2016
by Paul Toews
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Category:
Life Application
| Tags: Glory, Owen, Spiritual
Having read through The Glory of Christ by John Owen I have some questions. Has "look to Christ", or "behold Christ" become nothing more than a platitude? If you are told to "look to Christ" are you disappointed, hoping for something more? This month I want us to look to Christ and behold his glory, together, for perhaps the reason these statements have lost their savor...
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April 8, 2016
by Rob Snyder
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Category:
Theology
| Tags: Glory, humanity, Value
There is a prevailing assumption that focusing on God's glory, value and worth too much will lead to a careless and unloving attitude towards humanity. The Puritan Thomas Brooks would have begged to differ. ...
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