He is not here
for He has risen
as He said.
Human Nature…
“Much that we take for granted in a civilized society is based upon the assumption of human sin. Nearly all legislation has grown up because human beings cannot be trusted to settle their own disputes with justice and without self-interest. A promise is not enough; we need a contract. Doors are not enough; we have to lock and bolt them. The payment of fares is not enough; tickets have to be issued, inspected and collected. Law and order are not enough; we need the police to enforce them. All this is due to man’s sin. We cannot trust each other. We need protection against one another. It is a terrible indictment of human nature.” – John Stott, Basic Christianity
You’re Welcome Flame!
Thank you Flame for taking out the time to show love and appreciation for those who supported the album and also contributed. May Christ continue to increase and you decrease. Thanks for picking up On that Cross!
If you have yet to pick up Flame’s album please do!
P.S. Keep me in prayer as I finish up this semester, it has been tough…
Grace and Peace,
Alex Medina
Kingdom People Christmas Giveaway
Trevin Wax is giving away his top favorite books of the year,
head over to
http://trevinwax.com/
to find out more…
List of books:
For the next ten days (Dec. 15-25), you have the opportunity to register to win all ten of my favorite books this year. Plus, an ESV Study Bible. That’s $260 worth of books!
#1. THE REASON FOR GOD – Tim Keller
#2. CULTURE MAKING – Andy Crouch
#3. SURPRISED BY HOPE – N.T. Wright
#4. WHY WE’RE NOT EMERGENT – Kevin DeYoung & Ted Kluck
#5. HOW PEOPLE CHANGE – Timothy Lane & Paul David Tripp
#6. THE BIG PICTURE STORY BIBLE -David Helm & Gail Schoonmaker
#7. JESUS MADE IN AMERICA – Stephen Nichols
#8. RESIDENT ALIENS – Stanley Hauerwas & Will Willimon
#9. WORSHIP MATTERS – Bob Kauflin
#10. The Sermon on the Mount through the Centuries – Jeffrey Greenman, Timothy Larsen, and Stephen Spencer
I Believe…
I believe in the glorious deity of Jesus Christ.
I believe in the universe-making, miracle working power of Jesus Christ.
I believe in the humble, sinless, virgin-born humanity of Jesus Christ.
I believe in the covenant-keeping, law-fulfilling, righteousness-performing, perfection-providing obedience of Jesus Christ.
I believe in the wrath-bearing, justice-satisfying, sin-atoning death of Jesus Christ.
I believe in the death-defeating, devil-destroying, heaven-opening resurrection of Jesus.
I believe in the sovereign, interceding, ever present, never leaving us alone, triumphant reign of Jesus at the right hand of the Father.
Jesus Christ is Stronger!
“Jesus Christ is stronger!
Stronger than my fears about the future or my shame over a past than cannot be altered though I wish so much I could do some things differently.
Stronger than my tired prayers with well worn phrases and weary pleas.
Stronger than my need to know now, and have the trial terminated.
Stronger than the enemy of my soul who would discourage me with my own failings and disillusion me with the faults of others. “
Beat it into their heads continually…
“The law is divine and holy. Let the law have his glory, but yet no law, be it never so divine and holy, ought to teach me that I am justified, and shall live through it. I grant it may teach me that I ought to love God and my neighbour; also to live in chastity, soberness, patience, etc., but it ought not to show me, how I should be delivered from sin, the devil, death, and hell.
Here I must take counsel of the gospel. I must hearken to the gospel, which teacheth me, not what I ought to do, (for that is the proper office of the law,) but what Jesus Christ the Son of God hath done for me : to wit, that He suffered and died to deliver me from sin and death. The gospel willeth me to receive this, and to believe it. And this is the truth of the gospel. It is also the principal article of all Christian doctrine, wherein the knowledge of all godliness consisteth.
Most necessary it is, therefore, that we should know this article well, teach it unto others, and beat it into their heads continually.”
–Martin Luther, St. Paul’s Epistle to the Galatians (Philadelphia: Smith, English & Co., 1860), 206.
did you know my Son?…
“In the end, God will not be impressed that I talked with Bob Kauflin, or shook the hand of Mark Driscoll, or saved a seat for Paul Tripp, or that I know John Piper. The only thing God will care about is “Did you talk with the poor? Did you shake the hand of the leper? Did you save a seat for the lame? And most of all, did you know my son?”
-Aaron O’Harra
