March 21, 2023
by Clint Humfrey
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Category:
Devotionals
| Tags: resolutions, Jonathan Edwards
Originally posted on February 9, 2021
Last edited March 21, 2023
With the beginning of 2021, many people will start off the year with new resolutions. But it can also be a reminder that we can make prayerful, faith-filled resolutions at any time.
That's what Jonathan Edwards, the 18th-century pastor-theologian did. He made a list of resolutions that he would review an...
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February 20, 2018
by Jeff Jones
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Category:
Devotionals
| Tags: Sovereignty, Temple, Mission, covenant, offering, Calvary Grace Church, King David, Miracle
As we at Calvary Grace continue to mark our first anniversary as "homeowners" in a building of our own, we consider the miracle of Israel's offering for the Temple in First Chronicles 29:1-9, and mark its meaning....
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February 19, 2018
by Jeff Jones
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Category:
Devotionals
| Tags: Calvary Grace Church, Building, Prayer, giving, King David, Temple, offering, Sovereignty
Sometimes God provides spectacularly in the life of an individual or a church. On Calvary Grace's first anniversary as "homeowners" in a building of its own, we pause to consider the example of King David's Israel after God ordains a staggering offering by his people for his Temple, seeking wisdom on how to pray after God pours out blessings....
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February 19, 2018
by Jeff Jones
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Category:
Devotionals
| Tags: Calvary Grace Church, Building, Prayer, offering, Sovereignty, King David, Temple, Worship
We can’t understand the amazing prayer offered in First Chronicles 29 unless we first understand the man who offered it. In this article, we’re going to look at King David, a "man on a mission." We’ll review what brought him to that moment, in order to help us grasp why he prayed the way he did....
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October 7, 2016
by Paul Toews
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Category:
Devotionals
| Tags: Hope, watchman, viligant, lamp, morning star
"I wait for the Lord, and in his word I hope; my soul waits for the Lord more than watchmen for the morning, more than watchmen for the morning." (Psalm 130:6)
I thought that this month I would select some of my favorite passages of scripture to do a meditation on. Psalm 130 is one of my favorite psalms. In it the psalmist cries out to the Lord with pleas for mercy (vs. 1...
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July 29, 2016
by Paul Toews
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Category:
Devotionals
Who can think of the glory of Christ but not think that he who was humbled has been glorified above all things (Phil. 2:8-10) with a heavenly glory that we cannot yet see....
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July 15, 2016
by Paul Toews
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Category:
Devotionals
| Tags: Faith, Glory, Hope, Meditation
In scripture we read that Christ is the image of God (2 Cor. 4:4). He makes the invisible God visible (Col. 1:15). God is glorious and in beholding Christ we behold that glory. In Christ, God himself, his Being and the mystery of his existence in three distinct persons, was gloriously revealed to believers, and the light of the knowledge of these truths dispelled all those...
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April 2, 2015
by Jeff Jones
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Category:
Devotionals
| Tags: Atonement, crucifixion, crucifixi?n, current events, Easter, golgotha, good friday, hebrews, hell, homosexuality, humiliation, old testament, Sexuality, Suffering, Worldview
On Good Friday, we remember the crucifixion and death of Jesus Christ. Sentenced to death for crimes he did not commit by a feckless provincial governor fearing for his own job, Jesus was executed by the Romans on behalf of the Jews. Outside the city walls of Jerusalem, God’s innocent Lamb, slain for the sins of his people, absorbed the righteous wrath of the Father agai...
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September 30, 2014
by Ben Hopman
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Category:
Devotionals
| Tags: Suffering, Sovereignty, sing
One of the songs that we have recently introduced to Calvary Grace is called "My God, My Father, Blissful Name." It was written by Anne Steele in 1760. The song is a reflection and proclamation of the realities of the Christian walk. In the first verse, we reflect on the astounding position we have as children of God. It echoes Colossians 1:11-12 which says, "May you b...
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September 24, 2014
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Category:
Devotionals
| Tags: Gospel, Community, Heart
It is a joy to be a part of Calvary Grace Church. We all benefit from sound preaching as we worship God together. As elders, we talk about keeping the main things central. We don’t want to compromise our high view of God’s Word and God’s promise to accomplish His purposes in His people through the Word. This means that sitting under good preaching is not an end in it...
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