Born.Again.Christian.

Isaiah 55:1 "Ho! Everyone who thirsts, Come to the waters; and you who have no money, Come, buy and eat. Yes, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price." The grace of the Lord is encapsulated in this verse. The saying 'you don't get nothing for free on this earth' does not apply to the grace of God.  "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life." (John 3:16) God's gift to us is completely undeserved, however it is offered to us because of His great love for us. " But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us." (Romans 5:8) How do we accept God's gift? By placing our faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. By recognising Him as the Son of God who came to take the punishment that you deserved upon the cross. Hebrews 11:6 tells us that "...without faith it is impossible to ple...

A QUOTE FROM C. S. LEWIS "I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronising nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to. ... Now it seems to me obvious that He was neither a lunatic nor a fiend: and consequently, however strange or terrifyin...

? ? ? ? Type 'God' into Google and you get a lot of images. Most depict God as a large man in the sky with a white beard. But what does God actually look like? We know that God made us in His image, and that He has a face ( Exodus 33:20 "But He said, "You cannot see My face; for no man shall see Me, and live. ") We also know that God appeared to certain men in the Bible, such as Abraham in Genesis 18 ( Genesis 18:1 "Then the Lord appeared to him by the terebinth trees of Mamre, as he was sitting in the tent door in the heat of the day."). We have brief descriptions of His appearance and might ( Exodus 24:9-11 "Then Moses went up, also Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel, and they saw the God of Israel. And there was under His feet as it were a paved work of sapphire stone, and it was like the very heavens in its clarity."). We are also told of a description of the glory of God in Ezekiel 1:28 "Like the ap...

 Here we are given the accounts of two events happening side by side. The first being the false trial against the Lord Jesus (v53-65) and the second being Peter’s denial of the Lord Jesus outside the very courtroom (v66-72). There is much I could say about each word and every line of this text, the prophecies that were fulfilled by this event, such as Christ remaining silent against His accusers, just as it says in Isaiah 53:7 , or the fact that nothing that his accusers said matched up, because it was lies, or the fact that the Lord Jesus claims His deity in v62 when He is asked ‘who is he?’, (Jesus said “I am. And you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Power and coming with the clouds of heaven.”) which is an encouragement and a lesson to us, that when people ask us for the reason for the hope that is in us we should tell them ( 1 Peter 3:15 ). However I wish to focus on the stark contrast between Peter in his personal trial and the Lord. You ca...