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August 3, 2025August 3, 2025 admin Sinclair Ferguson

JESUS’ TEACHING ON MARRIAGE AND GENDER

By Sinclair B. Ferguson As we discuss the remarkable fact that God created mankind as male and female, it’s important to recognize

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August 3, 2025August 3, 2025 admin Scott Henry

A CHRISTIAN’S SUNDAY MORNING PRAYER

Heavenly Father, Thank you for this Lord’s Day and the new opportunities You will bring my way.Help me to be faithful and

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August 1, 2025August 1, 2025 admin Scott Henry

SCRIPTURE IS THE VOICE OF GOD

“Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus, by the will of God.” —Ephesians 1:1 THE CENTRAL TEACHING of the Book of Ephesians is that

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July 29, 2025July 29, 2025 admin Scott Henry

LIVING SACRIFICE

“I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable

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July 27, 2025July 27, 2025 admin Scott Henry

A CHRISTIAN “KEEPING IT REAL” PRAYER!

My Father and my God, I come to You this morning through my Lord Jesus Christ and by the Holy Spirit. O

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July 26, 2025July 26, 2025 admin JACKIE GIBSON

God’s Comfort in the Loss of a Child

By Jackie Gibson Christians are not promised health, wealth, and happiness this side of heaven. The sad reality of life in a

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July 25, 2025 admin RANDY ALCORN

Find Your Identity in God, Not Your Suffering

—Randy Alcorn “We live in a time when we are defined as disabled, bipolar, alcoholic, ADHD, victims of lupus, cancer, Parkinson’s disease,

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July 25, 2025July 25, 2025 admin Scott Henry

HIDING GOD’S WORD IN YOUR HEART

“Your word I have hidden in my heart, that I might not sin against You!”—Psalm 119:11 SCRIPTURE ADMONISHES every believer to store up

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July 23, 2025July 23, 2025 admin STEPHEN KNEALE

HEED THE WARNINGS

By Stephen Kneale Yesterday, a strange incident happened in Manchester.You can read about it here: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jul/22/witness-appeal-bus-collision-bridgewater-canal-aqueduct-eccles-greater-manchesterA bus driver managed to drive his

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July 22, 2025July 22, 2025 admin Scott Henry

AFFLICTION AND GOD’S FAITHFULNESS

“I know, O LORD, that Your judgments are right, and that in faithfulness You have afflicted me.  Let, I pray, Your merciful

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REDEEMED FOR DOXOLOGY

“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ.”
—Ephesians 1:3

IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE Apostle Paul gives his opening salutation to the Ephesians and tells them they are saints in Christ who have received grace and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, he then breaks into a doxology, “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.” The word “blessed” comes from the Greek word "eulogeo" from which we get our English word eulogy. A eulogy is a message of praise and commendation; it’s a declaration of one’s goodness. And since God alone is good, He’s the only one worthy of a eulogy. Therefore, when we gather to worship, our first and foremost purpose is to give praise and thanks to God. And this is appropriate behavior for every believer because we have received the grace of God and are now at peace with Him. The very thought of God’s saving grace coming to people who are utterly undeserving and unworthy of any good thing from God should cause every one of us to break forth in wonder, love, and praise to God. That’s what the realization of God’s grace does –it leads us to doxology. It leads the redeemed “to praise God from whom all blessings flow!”

PRAISING GOD IS THE main duty and privilege of every believer. Paul wrote in Ephesians 1:6 that we were saved “To the praise of the glory of God’s grace.” In Ephesians 1:12 we read, “…that we who first trusted in Christ should be to the praise of His glory.” And in Ephesians 1:13-14 the Apostle Paul tells believers that we were sealed with the Holy Spirit “who is the guarantee of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, to the praise of His glory.”

DO YOU UNDERSTAND that praise to God is a fundamental duty and privilege in your life as a believer, or is going to worship on the Lord’s Day to praise the only blessed God a burden to you? When you realize the grace God has extended to you as one who is unworthy of the least of His blessings, does praise to God immediately spring forth from your soul? You see, the giving of praise and thanksgiving to God is a barometer of the Christian life. In other words, if praise and heartfelt giving of thanks to God is not something you delight in and continually practice in your life then you haven’t experienced the grace of God in Jesus Christ. Why? Because saving grace always leads to praise as the Apostle Paul demonstrates in our text, “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ…” (Ephesians 1:3). Have you received God’s saving grace? Then diligently practice giving praise to God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Tuesday Encouragement: October 20, 2026
In Christ,
Pastor S. Henry
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