Semikkah7

11/17/2022 – “Nothing is a surprise to God; nothing is a setback to His plans; nothing can thwart His purposes; and nothing is beyond His control. His sovereignty is absolute. Everything that happens is uniquely ordained by God.” Joni Eareckson Tada

Soli Deo Gloria!

11/15/2022 – “The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly.” Soren Kierkegaard (1813 – 1855 / Denmark : bio attached)

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Soren-Kierkegaard/Stages-on-lifes-way

11/07/2022 – “Christ is worth all, or He is worth nothing.” George Whitefield (1714 – 1770)

Solli Deo Gloria!

11/04/2022 – “There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.” Saint Augustine – Bishop of Hippo (354 A.D. – 430 A.D.)

Soli Deo Gloria!

10/29/2022 – “The Lord challenges us to suffer persecutions and to confess Him. He wants those who belong to Him be be brave and fearless. He himself shows how weakness of the flesh is overcome by courage of the Spirit… A Christian is fearless.” Tertullian (Born 150 – 160 a.d. / died: 220 – 240 A.D.)/ Biography attached

Here is a biography of Tertullian, an early church father…

https://voh.church/tertullian-bio_234551

10/27/2022 – “Right now, we wear our souls on the inside. But one day we will be ‘clothed in righteousness’ as we wear our souls on the outside, brilliant and glorious.” Joni Eareckson Tada.

And Brother John has reached that “one day”, as have all our loved ones gone before us who accepted Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior. As messengers, we …

10/10/2022 – “True salvation always produces an abiding change of nature in a true convert. Therefore, whenever holiness of life does not accompany a confession of conversion, it must be understood that this individual is not a Christian.” Jonathan Edwards

Soli Deo Gloria!

10/09/2022 “The wrath of God does not end with death. This is a truth that the preacher can’t mention without trembling, nor wondering why he does not tremble more. The eternity of punishment is a thought which crushes the heart. You have buried the man but you have not buried his sins. His sins live and are immortal. They have gone before him to judgment, or they will follow after him to bear their witness as to the evil of his heart and rebellion of his life. The Lord God is slow to anger, but when he is once aroused to it, as he will be against those who finally reject his Son, he will put forth all his omnipotence to crush his enemies.” Charles Spurgeon

This post was posted previously on 12/27/2020, our last cycle of today’s reading of II Thessalonians, Day 224 of our Semikkah7 read through the Bible in a year plan.

Soli Deo …