No matter where your home is, what shape it is in, hospitality turns it into a castle. This home in a village in rural Yunnan Province, China, offered us great hospitality.
Month: February 2013
A very good clarification of one the most misused passages of Scripture. No righteous act is worth anything as far as salvation goes, but after we belong to Christ, His Spirit works in us, enabling us to do things pleasing to the Father. We may still be unprofitable servants, as Christ’s sacrifice is to high a debt to repay, but that does not mean we cannot be useful servants
Isaiah 64:6 (“all our righteous acts are like filthy rags”) is often quoted by folks as proof that any effort on our part to do good still comes across as pretty putrid in God’s sight. As Kevin DeYoung explains in The Hole in Our Holiness, however, that’s just bad exegesis–and it paints a terribly unflattering (and woefully inaccurate) picture of our God, to us and to the world:
The “righteous deeds” Isaiah has in mind are most likely the perfunctory rituals offered by Israel without sincere faith and without wholehearted obedience. In Isaiah 65:1–7 the Lord rejects Israel’s sinful sacrifices. They are an insult to the Lord, smoke in his nostrils, just like the ritual “obedience” of Isaiah 58 that did not impress the Lord because his people were oppressing the poor. Their “righteous deeds” were “filthy rags” (64:6, KJV) because they weren’t righteous at all. They looked good but…
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The Unveiling of Jesus Christ, Part 1
The podcast of Revelation, chapter 1, has now been posted on the podcast page. This series will continue to be posted on a weekly (more or less) timetable. Please, listen and enjoy this new teaching resource from Ta Ethne
Jude Commentary and Study Guide Chapter 1
Ta Ethne is proud to announce that the next chapter of our next book, Dominos, A Dynamic Commentary on the Epistle of Jude, is now available with study guide here on our site. Simply click on the Bible Study tab to the right or use the following link: https://taethne.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/dominoes-a-dynamic-commentary-on-jude-chapter-1-plus-study-guide.pdf
February Newsletter
The February newsletter is now available for reading
Weekly Photo Challenge – Unique
I found this chapel out in Beaver Creek Park, near Havre, Montana, to be unique. It served for a long time as a place of spiritual refreshment at the Kiwanis Camp in the BearsPaw Mountains.
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