In our present culture, we’ve lost that basic truth: every life is made and is allowed to live by God’s sovereign authority. One of our main purposes in life is to allow God to create new life from us, through children, God willing…
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Here at the Village, we seek to walk in the ancient paths that have been tread for us by the saints of old. Our greatest desire each week is to hear from God’s Word so that we may be instructed in how we should live this one life that Yahweh has given us…
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Although the chapter’s focus is the relationship between truth, love, and grace in marriage, one of my main takeaways was all the tangible illustrations of how marriage reflects Jesus’ relationship with the church. Below is a summary of 9 parallels I found between these relationships…
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Even though Jonah deliberately disobeyed God, I believe that Christians today can learn from his story in several ways. God is the sovereign, providential, loving, gracious, miraculous, and saving hero in the book of Jonah, and I want to point out areas where we specifically see God’s character working through Jonah, despite his sin…
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Think about a puzzle of a beautiful landscape. We can possibly get a sense of the whole picture from one puzzle piece, but the grandeur is missing. It is once all those pieces come together, one-by-one, often with great time and effort, that the majesty of the whole picture comes into view…
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