Posts from July 2020

PASTOR NICK’S WEEKLY DEVOTION 7/19/2020

July 19, 2020
Pastor Nick
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“My soul clings to you; your right hand upholds me” (Psalm 63:8 ESV). The Puritans used to say that faith was simply the outstretched hand of a helpless sinner; and even the outstretching of the hand was a work of sovereign grace… for in our sin we are dead and depraved; and even in God’s […]

Is God Unjust In Requiring Of Man What He Is Unable To Preform?

July 17, 2020
Pastor Nick
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If God did not require what sinners cannot preform, then they would have no need for the Son of God to fulfill all righteousness for them, or for the Holy Spirit to work holiness in them. If we say that God cannot justly require sinners to perform that obedience which they cannot perform, we undermine […]

A Summary of Principles for Understanding and Using the Ten Commandments

July 16, 2020
Pastor Nick
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In Exodus 20:1-17 we see the Ten Commandments, the Moral Law of God that all people everywhere are called to obey. As Ernie Reisinger says, “God requires personal, perfect, perpetual obedience to His revealed will. [And] Where do we find God’s revealed will regarding moral conduct? The biblical answer is that it is summarized in […]

The Christian and Covid-19

July 11, 2020
Pastor Nick
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Introduction In what I write below I am simply thinking out loud. I don’t claim to be infallible, or to have a perfect understanding of God’s Word. No doubt, there are many What Ifs and What Abouts that can and perhaps should be raised; and honestly, time would not permit me to address all of them… However, I believe that […]