Today's Devotions

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Showcase: Assorted Treats

  • Hope for Haiti +

    In Christ we who are many form one body, and each member belongs to all the others. Romans 12:5 Read More
  • Give My Soul Rest: the movie Avatar +

    Avatar, the 2009 movie by James Cameron, raised as much discussion and controversy through its piecemeal use of Native American, Read More
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jaredwilson1Oh, the gravity of Romans 8:31-39!

If none of what's listed — and everything is listed! — can separate us from him, Christ must be the master of all it.

He must be Lord over life and death and heaven and hell, sovereign Lord over all planets and molecules, galaxies and atoms, universes and particles.

This means:
When distressed by sickness, despair, depression, the painful words of friends, the hurtful words of a spouse or a child or a parent, when threatened by instability at work or in your home, when afraid of the future, when stressed out and anxious, when unsure and hyper-cautious, when laid low and beaten down, when nervous and frightened, when gossiped about and lied about and stabbed in the back, when feeling unforgiven and feeling hated and feeling used and thrown aside and pushed to the margins, when feeling taken advantage of or ignored or misunderstood or squashed, when tormented by your past and the sins you can't shake, when dealing with addictions and destructive behaviors, when tempted by cheap pretenders to God's throne, when lured away from the path, when you've fallen and when you've struggled and when you're in too deep, in the midst of violence, persecution, oppression, feeling stranded and lonely, in a flood or a fire or a zombie apocalypse, your God reigns, and he reigns in you!

You can know and say that nothing can condemn you so long as you are in Christ Jesus — that in fact, if you are in Christ, you are as secure as Christ is.

So even when the accuser comes and throws your sins at you, they should flame up and fizzle out like crumbly meteors entering the atmosphere of Christ's righteousness, and you can curse that devil and remind him that you are in tight with the boss of his existence, with the boss of very existence itself.

http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/gospeldrivenchurch/2013/06/25/in-tight-with-the-boss-of-existence/

 

Reflections to Consider

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Publications

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Music

  • River of Love

    There's a river of love that runs through all timeBut there's a river of grief that floods through our livesIt Read More
  • I Am Nothing

    I stutter when I tryTo speak the language of lifeI want to shout out loudBut I just cry insideSometimes it Read More
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Audio & Video

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Favorites

  • Transforming this World: The Hope of Glory by NT Wright +

    Wright confronts the perspective that this world doesn’t matter, and that we live only to be in heaven. He shows Read More
  • What is Good in a World that Defies Hope: a talk by NT Wright +

    This is the second part of three talks by NT Wright at Harvard University in November, 2008 on the topic Read More
  • The Stream, the Lake and the River: NT Wright +

      Acts 2.1-21; John 7.37-39; a sermon at the Eucharist on the Feast of Pentecost, 11 May 2008, by the Read More
  • Jesus in the Perfect Storm by NT Wright +

    Zechariah 9.9-17; Luke 19.28-48; A sermon for Palm Sunday, April 17, 2011, In the University Chapel of St Salvator, St Read More
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Hidden Blessings

  • Christ is a Great Savior: a review of the movie Amazing Grace +

    Amazing Grace is a historical drama about William Wilberforce who was elected to British Parliament at the age of 21 Read More
  • Wilberforce, Hollywood's Amazing Grace, Charlotte Allen +

    William Wilberforce's relentless campaign eventually led the British Parliament to ban the slave trade, in 1807, and to pass a Read More
  • Making Beauty out of Ugly Things: Grace by U2 +

    Grace, she takes the blame She covers the shame Removes the stain It could be her name Grace, she carries Read More
  • The True Nature of Grace and Love: a movie review of the Soloist +

    The 2009 movie The Soloist is based on a book by the same name, written by Los Angeles Times columnist Read More
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