Why did God elect and predestinate his people? So that his children would praise and glorify God for his grace. We were created for the purpose of the glory of God. Even if God gave us no providential

God has predetermined that his children would be legally adopted into the family of the Lord. We consider the Roman law of adoption to glean the spiritual lessons that the Ephesians would have receive

When considering predestination, it is helpful to view things through the eyes and perspective of Jesus Christ. When Christ chose to love his bride, the church, before the world began, he saw his brid

In Jesus triumphal entry into Jerusalem five days before the passover, we see the Son of God entering meekly into the city on a donkey. We first learn the importance of simple acts of obedience by th

As we turn our hearts towards glorification and the resurrection, we see the vision of Christ of his bride before the world began. Christ saw his bride in her ultimate perfection even before the found

We consider the example of Mary who just before Jesus death anointed his body for the burying with an immeasurably valuable ointment. Mary chose that good part down at the feet of Jesus that would no

While the doctrine of election is much disparaged in Christianity today, we consider together the beautiful truth of Gods unconditionally choosing a people to save before the foundation of the world.

In the beginning verses of Ephesians as well as the beginning of many New Testament epistles we find the first and pinnacle spiritual blessing we have in Christ, which is election. Election has be

From the resurrection of Lazarus, we see a real-life example to teach the spiritual lesson of regeneration and then subsequent conversion and discipleship. Jesus did not ask the dead man to come unto

Visiting minister Elder Kenneth Nowell encourages us to invest in the kingdom of God, to lay up treasures in heaven, not on the earth. We are prone to pursue accumulating wealth in a worldly sense, bu