I had the pleasure of spending two days listening to Mark Dever and Kevin DeYoung expound and proclaim the gospel over and over as part of the Durban leg of the Rezolution 2013 conference. However the final session was preached by Kevin DeYoung and using Hebrews 12:14 he preached on holiness, without which no one [...]
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Grace: grace is really a different thing altogether. We can define it as “getting something that you don’t deserve.” The man in Matthew 18 did not technically receive grace, all that happened was that his account returned for zero. His debt removed. But grace goes further, it then gives the debtor credit. It not only [...]
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Many Christians use this phrase interchangeably, “Thank you Lord for your grace, You are so merciful to us”. That prayer certainly isn’t wrong, a Christian can certainly lay claim to those exact words, but don’t forget, mercy and grace are not the same thing. Christians understand that God’s grace and mercy are separate aspects of [...]
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As 2012 has been an excellent and much blessed year for this little website and it’s author. God has been very gracious this year. I would like to take a bit of time to report back on some of the things which God has allowed me to do and write about this year. The first [...]
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The fact is, Jesus Christ being born on this earth was certainly not an event that randomly happened or was unplanned or unhoped for. Indeed, as we will see, there is a lots of Old Testament passages which very specifically prophecy about the coming Christ. Many of them. Although most of them were not always explicitly understood [...]
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