Nevertheless I say unto you, Hereafter shall ye see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of Heaven. (Matthew 26:64) Ah, Lord, Thou wast in Thy lowest state when before Thy persecutors Thou wast made to stand like a criminal! Yet the eyes of Thy faith [...]
Archive for May, 2009
This plans to be my last post in the series I am doing this week on Johnny Cash and living a Gospel-Centered life. You can read the pervious three post below at their links. Part-1 Part-2 Part-3 His most well known spiritual songs come of his album, American IV: The Man Comes Around. Although there [...]
The last two days I have spent sometime talking about Johnny Cash, Gospel-Centered living and what we can learn from both of them. You can read both of them, Part-1 and Part-2 by clicking on the links. The posts have several intentions in them: 1. That you can take the good of a person and [...]
Don’t Bash on the Man They called CASH – Part 2
Posted: May 28, 2009 by Michael Dewalt in Johnny CashYesterday I wrote the first of a four part series that I am doing this week. It was the beginning of my views on many things in Conservative Evangelicalism that have often gotten under my skin in Gospel-Centered living that traditionalist and legalistic thinking easily corrupts. However the post and the post to come are [...]
Don’t Bash on the Man They called CASH – Part 1
Posted: May 27, 2009 by Michael Dewalt in Johnny CashI frankly get sick-n-tired of hearing Christians bash the man they called, Johnny Cash! I was recently talking to a guy that felt the need to confront me on listening to Johnny Cash, and began the conversation asking me, “was he a Christian?” I guess his purpose was something like this: All unsaved people are against [...]
The Beauty of God’s Kingdom – Part 3
Posted: May 26, 2009 by Michael Dewalt in The Beauty of God's KingdomAn Acceptable Kingdom. The beauty of God’s Kingdom is that it deserves your worship with reverence and that it leaves the believer of the gospel in nothing else but awe. Speaking about the unshakable kingdom, we now look at how the believer lives in the kingdom. The writer of Hebrews says in verse 28, “and [...]
I haven’t done one of these in awhile, so here are two. You might be a Calvinist if… someone offers three pieces of candy and you don’t know how to chose which one you are going to take. You might be a Calvinist if… you refuse to take a multiple choice test, you just don’t [...]
One man of you shall chase a thousand: for the Lord your God, he it is that fighteth for you, as he hath promised you. (Joshua 23:10) Why count heads? One man with God is a majority though there be a thousand on the other side. Sometimes our helpers may be too many for God [...]
Sermons on Genesis: Chapters 1-11, by John Calvin
Posted: May 23, 2009 by Michael Dewalt in Book of the Week, John CalvinNEWLY PUBLISHED – FIRST, AND ONLY, ENGLISH TRANSLATION John Calvin is generally thought of as the greatest theologian of the Protestant Reformation or as a gifted Bible commentator whose insights into the text of Scripture are still highly valued today. Yet it is not widely known that the greatest obligation Calvin felt was not to [...]
The Beauty of God’s Kingdom – Part 2
Posted: May 22, 2009 by Michael Dewalt in The Beauty of God's KingdomI now want to focus on bringing to your attention three things so that you may see the Beauty of God’s Kingdom. These three things are: 1. An Unshakable Kingdom 2. An Acceptable Kingdom 3. A Consuming God. An Unshakable Kingdom. The beauty of God’s Kingdom is that it is not like any kingdom or [...]
