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Continue reading →: God is Good Because We Can Worship Him With Our Minds. Part 1.Sierra De La Ventana, Argentina. Photographer: Raul Senzacqua “But when the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together. And one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him. “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your…
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Continue reading →: God is Good Because His Love is Sacrificial and Costly“He had no form or majesty that we should look at him, and no beauty that we should desire him. He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed…
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Continue reading →: God is Good Because He is Going to Right All Wrongs.Kolkata, India. Photographer: DeepanjanGhosh “God in his infinite mercy has devised a way by which justice can be satisfied, and yet mercy can be triumphant. Jesus Christ, the only begotten of the Father, took upon himself the form of man, and offered unto Divine Justice that which was accepted as an…
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Continue reading →: God is Good: A BenedictionOia, Santorini, Greece. Photographer: Danbu14 “Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the…
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Continue reading →: God is Good Because He is Sovereign.Peyto Lake, Banff National Park, Alberta Photographer: Tobias Alt “When you go through a trial, the sovereignty of God is the pillow upon which you lay your head.” Charles Spurgeon “Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made…
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Continue reading →: God is Good Because We Don’t Earn Our Salvation, We Receive It.Rincon, Puerto Rico. Photographer Flickr name: Cogito Ergo Imago “For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.” Ephesians 2:8,9 “The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes…
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Continue reading →: God is Good Because He Gives Us Power Over Sin.Yosemite Park, Photo by DAVID ILIFF. License: CC-BY-SA 3. “Satan appears strong, sin seems powerful. Shame feels enslaving, but Jesus is stronger.” John Piper “The true Christian hates sin, flees from it. Fights against it, considers it his greatest plague, resents the burden of its presence,Mourns when he falls under…
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Continue reading →: God is Good Because He Calls Us To Be A Light In The Darkness.Christ the Redeemer statue, Rio De Janeiro Photographer: Chensiyuan “Our task as image-bearing, God-loving, Christ-shaped, Spirit-filled Christians, following Christ and shaping our world, is to announce redemption to a world that has discovered its fallenness, to announce healing to a world that has discovered its brokenness, to proclaim love and trust…
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Continue reading →: God is Good Because He Can and Does Relate to Our Pain and Suffering.“God may thunder His commands from Mount Sinai and men may fear, yet remain at heart exactly as they were before. But let a man once see his God down in the arena as a Man–suffering, tempted, sweating, and agonized, finally dying a criminal’s death–and he is a hard man…
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