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Feed Your Soul: Defined by Love {Jesus Christ & Salvation}
How do I now do justice to the beauty of the cross? I cannot. Indeed, I will be worshiping Him for the way He has saved me from my sin for all eternity.
With the last post in this series, I waded through some truths about sin. Has that post about sin and wrath not made this one all the sweeter to anticipate? There is a Savior! As Thomas Watson said, "Till sin be bitter, Christ will not be sweet."
This is sweet; these are the three words I have learned to describe what Jesus has done on the cross for me:
Penal: The just punishment that my sin deserved…
Substitutionary: was placed on Christ instead…
Atonement: ...
Feed Your Soul: Eternity at Stake {Man & Hell}
Andrew Bonar wrote, “It has been much impressed upon me, that if convinced of sin at all, I must be so by the view of it in Christ’s love.”
The biblical facts of human sin help us understand why the cross is necessary—and further, they help us understand why the cross is the greatest act of love mankind could ever know. And this love gives endless comfort in the darkest of days. This post is primarily focused on the biblical concept of human sin. The next post is primarily focused on the salvation of Christ.
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Read the Hope Mommies doctrinal statement regarding man:
MAN: We believe that man was created in the image ...
Feed Your Soul: Where Can I Find Rest? {The Godhead & The Father}
In grief, nothing seems to be what it used to be; even something as simple as sitting feels different.
One day, I walked down the staircase in my home to sit in the corner of the basement where I could be physically lowest and most removed from the world that had seemed to go on without me. As I sat, my body had the odd sensation of continually traveling lower. Sitting was more like sinking. I felt that I was being lowered, though I was not moving. As this was happening, I could also feel my heart pounding even though I was attempting to rest. Every strong pulse sent me a perceived level lower into the ground, the subbasement, the ...
Feed Your Soul: God Are You Silent? {Bible}
Have you tasted anything sweet in your soul after loss? Has there been anything since your baby went to heaven that has bolstered you beyond words? Maybe you have had a taste of heaven like never before because you now have a child there. Or maybe you have found a taste of fellowship like never before through connecting with other mothers who have stories of faith through loss. I hope that you have had the opportunity to taste something sweet.
What I hope we can see today is that Scripture is sweetness to our souls. Consider Psalm 119:103: “How sweet are Your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth!”
SWEET DESPITE OTHER ...
Book Review: C.S. Lewis’ “A Grief Observed”
All griefs are different.
When I first started to read Lewis’ A Grief Observed, I was perhaps two weeks, at most, into grieving my stillborn daughter, Noelle. Stillborn -- I hate that it is a necessary word to describe something that happens in this world. And there are more words and phrases that I hate along with it that have become a necessary addition to my everyday repertoire since working more closely with Hope Mommies, miscarriage and infant loss among them.
I do not write that bitterly. I write it truthfully (and humbly for that matter, considering the sin of my own human race brought death into this world).
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