by sdbarnard | Nov 12, 2021 | Featured |
What is humility? Beloved, What is humility? Is humility thinking less of yourself? Is humility less thinking of yourself? What do we mean when we say, “He is full of himself?” Is this not a declaration of pride in another? Were you...
by sdbarnard | Aug 6, 2021 | Featured |
Make War a Long Time (Josh 11:16-23) Part 1 – Safety in Numbers (Joshua 10:1-5)Part 2 – Time for Battle (Joshua 10:6-8)Part 3 – Leave Nothing Undone (Joshua 11:1-15) For this month’s blog, I would like to pick up where I left off last month in...
by sdbarnard | Jun 4, 2021 | Featured |
Time for Battle (Joshua 10:6-8) Last month we considered Joshua 10:1-5 and how Adoni-zedek’s fear of Joshua and Israel and their new peace with Gibeon led him to form a coalition of pagan kings to fight against God rather than seek God’s mercy. This month I would like...
by sdbarnard | Feb 26, 2021 | Featured |
Weaned from Self Beloved, What would it look like to live weaned from SELF? To be sure, Christians want to live weaned from the world, but what about self? David presents this reality in Psalm 131 (many thanks to David Powlison here).. Psalm 131:1-3 O LORD, my heart...
by sdbarnard | Feb 12, 2021 | Featured |
Do you believe all of Romans 12? If you open your Bible to Romans 12:9-21 it probably has a heading like “Marks of the True Christian” or something closely related and rightly so. In this text, one finds such things as genuine love, abhorrence of evil, holding fast...
