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Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.

- George Carlin

Ps 40:5, (WEB), Many, Yahweh, my God, are the wonderful works which you have done, And your thoughts which are toward us. They can't be set in order to you; If I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.

I have been reading through the book of Psalms lately as my morning readings and I have been amazed at what I have found since I have started this little journey. I am awed at how many times I can read the same Scriptures over and over and that at Yahweh's ...

The Two Natures in a Believer
By J. C. Philpot

Among those branches of divine truth which, without special teaching, we
cannot enter into, is, that of the two natures in a believer. And yet, though
every child of God must in all ages have been experimentally acquainted with
the inward conflict between flesh and spirit, nature and grace; and though
authors innumerable have written on such subjects as sanctification, the trial
of faith, the ...

The creation waits in eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed. For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God.

We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits ...

Grace For Today Don Fortner
OCTOBER 10 ISAIAH 46: 10 DAY 284
‘I will do all my pleasure’
Read Romans 9:10-26
The God of heaven is infinitely, totally and absolutely sovereign. It is
written, ‘Our God is in the heavens; he hath done whatsoever he
hath pleased’ (Ps. 115:3). ‘Whatsoever the Lord pleased, that did he
in heaven, and in earth, in the seas, and in all deep places’ (Ps.
135:6).
My friends, there is no possible alternative between ...

The Impotent god of a Sovereign People?

“No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day.”(John 6:44 ESV); Vincent Cheung, an outspoken and widely known Christian of our day says this regarding God’s sovereignty in our salvation: “you think I will tell you, God has sent Christ to make salvation possible (emphasis mine) for everyone, even you, so that in the end you will determine your own destiny…… But God has not left even ...