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Psalm 139 is the great Scripture on this subject, and it has drawn rich comment from many writers. ## God's Knowledge Reaches to Our Innermost Thoughts …
GodScripture declares plainly: (John 1:18; 1 John 4:12). And yet Moses saw God's glory, Stephen saw the glory of God, and the Lord Jesus Himself said, "He th…
GodThe answer is ready — here it is: # Is God Sovereign, or Do We Have a Free Will? This is one of the great questions of Scripture, and the writers who …
GodNo -- this is one of the most widely believed sayings that is actually the of what Scripture teaches. The Bible never says "God helps those who help thems…
GodThe phrase comes from Galatians 6:7 — "Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap." It declares a principle…
GodScripture gives a nuanced answer to this question, and several writers help draw out the threads. The short answer is: — but the nature of that hearing,…
GodThis is a question that touches on two things Scripture reveals simultaneously: that "God is love" (1 John 4:8) and that "the wrath of God abides" on the u…
GodScripture reveals two distinct lines in God's dealings with man: what He , and what He . These are sometimes called God's and His . ## The Two Lines of G…
GodThis is one of the most important distinctions in all of Christian teaching: God His children, but He does them — and the difference is everything. ##…
God## God in the Furnace The question presses hardest in the darkest moments — when sorrow is real and relief is nowhere in sight. takes us straight to th…
GodScripture is full of moments where the all-knowing God puts a question to one of His creatures. "Where art thou?" He calls to Adam. "Where is Abel thy brot…
GodScripture is clear that God does test His people — but never capriciously, never to destroy, and never without purpose. The testimony of those who have e…
GodScripture draws a careful distinction between two aspects of God's will — what He desires His people to do (which can be accepted or rejected), and what …
GodThe remarkable answer Scripture gives is that God does not love us because of anything *in* us — He loves us because of what He *is*. Love is not merely …
GodThe most striking thing about God's love is its . It did not wait for us to become good enough. It came to us at our worst. ## God Loves the Unlovely , c…
GodThe name — "God with us" (Matthew 1:23) — is not merely a title; it gathers up the deepest truth of the Christian faith: that God Himself has come dow…
GodThe theme of God as refuge unfolds across Scripture in several magnificent layers — from the eternal dwelling-place, to the present fortress in trouble, …
GodThe phrase "God provides" goes back to one of Scripture's most dramatic moments: Genesis 22, where Abraham, commanded to offer Isaac, answers his son's sea…
GodThe opening words of the epistle to the Hebrews set the question in its proper light: "God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past un…
GodThe jealousy of God is one of the most striking self-revelations in Scripture. In Exodus 34:14, God declares that His very is "Jealous" — not merely an …
GodThe story of Scripture, from its very first pages, reveals a God who does not wait for man to seek Him, but who actively pursues the wandering, the lost, a…
GodThe answer turns on a crucial distinction: is real and terrible — but for the one who believes in Christ, that anger has been fully and permanently answ…
GodThe truth that God is our sustainer runs through Scripture in two great streams: first, that Christ sustains the entire created universe by His divine powe…