Psalm 17A Prayer of David. Hear a just cause, O LORD; attend to my cry! Give ear to my prayer from lips free of deceit! From Your presence let my vindication come! Let Your eyes behold the right!You have tried my heart, You have visited me by night, You have tested me, and You will…
Matthew 17:1-13And after six days Jesus took with Him Peter and James, and John his brother, and led them up a high mountain by themselves. And He was transfigured before them, and His face shone like the sun, and His clothes became white as light. And behold, there appeared to them Moses and Elijah, talking…
Psalm 42To the choirmaster. A Maskil of the Sons of Korah.As a deer pants for flowing streams, so pants my soul for You, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God? My tears have been my food day and night, while they say to…
The Biblical Doctrine of Christian Hope Hebrews 6:17-20So when God desired to show more convincingly to the heirs of the promise the unchangeable character of his purpose, he guaranteed it with an oath, so that by two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled for refuge might…
Psalm 34Of David, when he changed his behavior before Abimelech, so that he drove him out, and he went away. I will bless the LORD at all times; his praise shall continually be in my mouth. My soul makes its boast in the LORD; let the humble hear and be glad. Oh, magnify the LORD…
(From Scripture, the 1689 London Baptist Confession, and the Puritan Witness) IntroductionWhat is true Biblical faith? Our Confession of Faith, faithfully summarising Scripture, says:“The grace of faith, whereby the elect are enabled to believe to the saving of their souls, is the work of the Spirit of Christ in their hearts, and is ordinarily wrought…
Psalm 33Shout for joy in the LORD, O you righteous! Praise befits the upright.Give thanks to the LORD with the lyre; make melody to Him with the harp of ten strings!Sing to Him a new song; play skillfully on the strings, with loud shouts.For the word of the LORD is upright, and all His work…
1 Corinthians 13v13So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love. (ESV)
Psalm 84To the choirmaster: according to The Gittith. A Psalm of the Sons of Korah.How lovely is Your dwelling place, O LORD of hosts!My soul longs, yes, faints for the courts of the LORD; my heart and flesh sing for joy to the living God. Even the sparrow finds a home, and the swallow a…
The Command to Rebuild the TempleIn the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, on the first day of the month, the word of the LORD came by the hand of Haggai the prophet to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high…