Devotional Commentary of EphesiansStudying the Book of Ephesians by certain recurring key words and phrases...
Key Words #1: The Father
WE NEED BOTH GRACE AND PEACE (Ephesians 1:2)
The following is recommended reading from the blog by Justin Taylor, on the gospel coalition website.
J. I. Packer:
For the Puritans, the landscape of piety-that is, the spiritual topography of the ongoing life-situations in which each saint serves God-was determined by four realities, on all of which, as their books show, they laid out a great deal of expository effort.
MARCH 7, 1858, BY THE REV. C. H. SPURGEON, AT THE MUSIC HALL, ROYAL SURREY GARDENS. “
No man can come to Me, except the Father who sent Me draws him.” John 6:44.
“COMING to Christ” is a very common phrase in Holy Scripture. It is used to express those acts of the soul wherein leaving at once our self-righteousness and our sins, we fly unto the Lord Jesus Christ and receive His righteousness to be our covering and His blood to be our atonement.
UNCONDITIONAL ELECTION
From Inward/Outward, a blog from the Church of the Saviour in Washington, D.C.
We don't want to just read about what God wants. We don't want someone else telling us what God wants either.... We want our eyes to be God's eyes so that we can see the world the way God sees it.
Jesus Christ is the Alpha and the Omega of my spiritual nourishment.
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