The Christian faces a life of constant struggle. With every obstacle he is faced with he finds there is a decision of either running to a place he thinks he can find refuge or standing and taking refuge in the Lord. Psalm 11 teaches us that the Christian must take refuge in the Lord rather than listening to the voice that tells us to flee from God’s protection.
We think of atheists usually as someone who is outside the church. But what about the atheist IN the church? As we go through the next few weeks in Psalms 10-14, we’ll see that there are different types of atheists. Of course, the full-blown atheist out rightly says there is no God. Every atheist (or type of atheist) has one thing in common: they live as though there is no God. The first one (we discuss today) is the practical atheist. If you LIVE as though there is no God, the language of your life says the same thing as if you actually proclaimed there was no God.
Prayers and scripture in Israel were memorized a bit differently. They were not simply verses, but internalized and lived as a way of life. The prayer and exultation of the mother of God in the Luke passage shows many parallels to Hannah’s exultation to God in 1 Samuel. This transgenerational faith – the faith and prayers of the saints from one generation to another – serves as a model for passing on the Christian faith to our own children.
Using the Garden of Eden as our starting point, Jace Broadhurst takes us through scripture to examine the common points of design between the creation, the Garden of Eden and the Temple, giving practical and relational insight along the way.
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