God has made everything beautiful in His time…

“Surprisingly, and superbly, Qoheleth (the writer of Hebrews) in (Ecclesiastes 3) verse 11 enables us to see perpetual change not as something unsettling but as an unfolding pattern, scintillating and God-given. The trouble for us is not that life refuses to keep still, but that we see only a fraction of its movement and of its subtle, intricate design. Instead of changelessleness, there is something better: a dynamic, divine purpose, with its beginning and end. Instead of frozen perfection there is the kaleidoscopic movement of innumerable processes, each with its own character and its period of blossoming and ripening, beautiful in His time and contributing to the over-all masterpiece which is the work of one Creator.”  Derek Kidner

All of divine grace!

“The reformation is never complete in this life, and the more a penitent receives of divine grace, the more he is convinced that ‘it is God who works in’ him ‘both to will and to do of His good pleasure.’ Without the Spirit of Christ we are utterly unable to render any of that service which the law requires for our justification; and if we are regenerated so that we lead good lives, the credit is due, not to us for our justification, but to Him (Jesus Christ), whose is the only righteousness which God will accept as sufficient to honor the law under which we live and by which we shall be tried.”   George Washington Bethune from his book ‘Guilt, Grace and Gratitude’

M Street Podcast Episode 5

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We need to understand who we are BY NATURE, in other words who we are as individual sinners who have inherited our sin nature from our parents, who inherited the same nature from their parents, who inherited the same nature from their parents, and so so forth, going all the way back to our first parents, Adam and Eve. This biblical reality is faithfully summarized in the Heidelberg Catechism, Lord’s Day 3.

This week’s episode of M Street Podcast

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Pastor Chris Moulton continues to explain the meaning behind Heidelberg Catechism, Lord’s Day 2, particularly the subject of our being unable to keep God’s moral law perfectly. We can not deviate in the even the slightest way (in thought, word, or deed) from obeying God’s law without being justly deemed (by God) as a sinner. Whether we want to believe it or not – no one comes anywhere close to that kind of obedience except for Jesus Christ, which is why we must rest upon His perfect righteousness on our behalf in order to be saved from our sin.

M Street Podcast Episode 3

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As we begin to look into the first general heading of the Heidelberg Catechism (Man’s Misery), Pastor Chris Moulton reflects upon the fact that the only true and right place for us to know our own misery is the moral law of God. Neither our own conscience, nor majority opinion, nor how we feel at the moment, nor what we find in nature, but only the moral law of God as summarized in the following: “You shall love the Lord your God with all of your heart, and with all of your soul, and with all your strength… and… you shall love your neighbor as yourself.” PERFECT, PERSONAL, AND PERPETUAL obedience to those commandments is what God requires of all mankind.  This reality is accurately stated in Heidelberg Catechism Lord’s Day 2.