There’s a chorus I used to sing as a child. It went like this: Romans ten and nine, Is a favourite verse of mine -Confessing Christ as Lord,I am saved by grace divine.For there the words of promise,In golden letter shine.Romans ten and nine. ‘Romans ten and nine’ refers to a verse of the Bible,…
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Amos 5
Seek the Lord! This is the repeated refrain in chapter five, “that ye may live”. It is not with the hope that God’s judgement will not fall, for that is certain, but gives hope of the promise of God’s presence for a faithful remnant, that He “shall be with you”, just as He was with…
Can a Christian lose their salvation?
I want to begin in 1 John. In chapter 1:5, John begins with an absolute: ‘God is light, and in Him is no darkness at all’. Verse 6 logically follows: ‘if we say’ (in other words, if we profess to be a Christian), but ‘walk in darkness’ – this is not a slip or a…
Forward in Hope 