Monthly Archives: August 2015

Congregational Prayer: August 30, 2015…

Posted on August 31, 2015 by Tom Brainerd

Our Holy Father and our God, we do, indeed, give You thanks and praise for Your goodness. We bless Your holy name, O God, as we remember Your mighty acts, as we look back at the Old Testament and see … Continue reading →

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Deeper and more important…

Posted on August 29, 2015 by Tom Brainerd

Originally posted on Livin' in the foothills:
Alec Motyer on Isaiah 54:8… With a little wrath I hid My face from you for a moment; But with everlasting kindness I will have mercy on you,” Says the Lord, your Redeemer.…

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Sanctification and glory…

Posted on August 23, 2015 by Tom Brainerd

…sanctification is glory begun, and glory is sanctification completed. Bruce, Hebrews, 81

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God’s very heart laid bare…

Posted on August 22, 2015 by Tom Brainerd

It is in the passion of our Lord that we see the very heart of God laid bare; nowhere is God more fully or more worthily revealed as God than when we see him “in Christ reconciling the world to … Continue reading →

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Above all idol gods…

Posted on August 22, 2015 by Tom Brainerd

Originally posted on Livin' in the foothills:
We may boast of him above all idol gods upon this account. He is known among his people, not so much by acts of power, as acts of grace, and the greatness of…

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What God has actually done…

Posted on August 21, 2015 by Tom Brainerd

…the only way to discover what is a worthy thing for God to do is to consider what God has actually done. Bruce, Hebrews, 79

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The unconverted heart…

Posted on August 19, 2015 by Tom Brainerd

Originally posted on Livin' in the foothills:
The unconverted heart hates God, and will show its hatred whenever it dares, and has a favorable opportunity. It will persecute God’s witnesses. It will dislike all who have anything of God’s mind,…

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Attended to in right manner…

Posted on August 16, 2015 by Tom Brainerd

When the heart of the hearer is quickened, enlivened, spirited with gospel truths, and by them is moulded and fashioned into their likeness, and cxpresseth that likeness in its fruits, or in a conversation beconiing the gospel, then is the … Continue reading →

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Security of our faith…

Posted on August 16, 2015 by Tom Brainerd

Studying of the word is the security of our faith. John Owen, Hebrews, 235

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Something about himself…

Posted on August 15, 2015 by Tom Brainerd

The person who says, “I could not have a  high opinion of a God who would (or would not) do this or that,” is not adding anything to our knowledge of God; he is simply telling us something about himself. … Continue reading →

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