COV LIFE BLOG
CLC Missions Conference 2014 – Why Missions?
Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Why the substitution of “worship” for “the glory of God”? Why not say, “Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. The glory of God is?” The reason is that missions is demanded not by God’s failure to show glory but by man’s failure to savor […]
Hosea 13 – The Danger in a Misplaced Hope
Throughout the nation’s history God identified himself to them as, the Hebrew word for help. King David claimed that reality in Psalm 54. David had been anointed the king of the land, but he spent fourteen years running for his life from King Saul. Yet confident of God’s presence and activity, David said, azar, “Behold, God […]
Hosea 12 – God’s Enduring Kindness in Israel’s Stubborn Rebellion
If there is one message more frequently repeated than another in the Scriptures, both of the Old and New Testaments, it is this message requiring repentance. There has been no generation of men, nay, there has been no individual man, to whom it might not justly be said, Repent! I. HUMAN CHARACTER AND LIFE ARE […]
Hosea 11 – The Lord’s Great Compassion
The contrast of persons and actions is vivid. Jehovah is seen as the persistent Lover, and the people as contemning His love. What is to be done? There is only one thing to do, by all the laws of human conduct, and all the laws that are only laws of righteousness and equity and justice. Give […]
Hosea 9-10 It Is Time To Seek The Lord
“It is time to seek the Lord.” I wish you to reflect, first, that we yet have time. It might have been otherwise. We might have been cut down in our sins. Many of our neighbors and acquaintances have died. Some of them, we have reason to fear, died in their iniquities and were taken […]