The Lord Jesus is the Groom Whose determination for His bride overrules all others' plans, desires, and purposes

Pastor leads his family in today's Hopewell -Home. Here, the apostle to the Gentiles performs the other great function of his apostleship- prayer. He asks for the same purpose by the same power as he does in the ministry of the Word. What results is a divinely-sized prayer.

The Lord Jesus, Who always prays for us, leads us in prayer by elders. When we are ill, He sends His elders in His Name to remind us that we and our illness are set apart to Him for His glory.

The multicolored glory that God displays by the church to the angels is also the ground of much boldness for Christians as they- address an unbelieving world, access the throne of grace, and assess their and other believers' troubles

God sustains believers in doing more than they can do, as He works in their lives to do more than they can ask or think

The second half of a lesson on race and racism. Accepting the idea that humanity is not one race dismantles the foundation for understanding and believing the gospel. Only the gospel can undo the hatred or vainglory that we sometimes call -racism,- and justice in order to be just must follow God's law without reference or preference to any ethnicity.

Do you have this Jesus- He is such a help in facing death as a reality- What can the dark shadow do to you, if you belong to Jesus, and follow your Shepherd throughout your life, who will still be with you in death- Jesus Christ has defeated death, and its days are numbered- He will finally destroy it altogether- And though He sits enthroned in glory and power, He sympathizes with the agony and tears of His dear ones below. Do you have this Jesus-

Pastor teaching his family tomorrow's Hopewell -Home lesson. In Genesis 29-1-12 the Lord piles on the evidence that Jacob is sustained by sovereign grace, so that we are prepared to see God's mercy in the passages that follow, without following His people's wicked examples.

Pastor teaching his family tomorrow's Hopewell -Home Scripture. In Luke 6-20-26, Jesus addresses especially the gathering of His disciples, many of whom are genuinely converted and need to learn to rejoice in what God accomplishes for them in the sufferings of this life- but also, many of whom are unconverted, and must diagnose it by their dwelling much upon earthly comforts and pleasures, before they find themselves agonizing in Hell alongside the false prophets of old.

Since Scripture teaches us that suffering is a providential assignment to pray, we must be in a habit of true, biblical prayer in order to be ready for that duty when the time comes.