“For no man is damned precisely because God has not chosen him, but because he is a sinner, and does willfully refuse the means of grace offered.”

-John Calvin

God is good, all the time and al the time God is good.

The Holy Spirit Is Not an “It.” He Is God.

The Holy Spirit is not a force or an energy—He is a Person and He is God.

He teaches (John 14:26).
He can be grieved (Ephesians 4:30).
He searches the deep things of God (1 Corinthians 2:10-11).
Lying to Him is lying to God (Acts 5:3-4).

Call Him an “it,” and you deny what Scripture clearly teaches.

St. Patrick: From Slave to Preacher

When Patrick was a teenager, he was kidnapped during a raid on Britain and taken to Ireland to serve as a slave. After six years in captivity, he escaped, made his way back home, and eventually was ordained into the priesthood.

Then God, in his ironic way, sent Patrick back into the land of his former captivity to proclaim the freedom of the Gospel.

The boy who had been a slave was used by Christ to bring his word of salvation and life to a people who had been living in the darkness of pagan unbelief.

In Patrick we see the Lord of life at work, as we see him at work in our own lives. The God who can take a slave who seemed destined for nothing but death, and use his life to bring wisdom and light and salvation to the lives of so many others—this same God can and does work in our own lives.

We may seem destitute of hope, but the hope of Christ is stronger than our weakness. As he was for Patrick, so he will be for us: our companion in suffering, our life in death, our resurrection in the grave, and the Lord who uses us in his own way to bring blessings into the lives of others.

"And you shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother, for glory and for beauty" (Exodus 28:2).

Aaron the high priest was a shadow of Christ. His garments were to be an earthly reflection of the honour, majesty, splendour, glory and beauty of Christ, our eternal high priest!

The 7 "I Am" statements by Jesus Christ found throughout the Gospel of John.

1. “I am the bread of life. He who comes to Me shall never hunger, and he who believes in Me shall never thirst” (John 6:35). Jesus also reiterated this statement in John 6:41, 48, and 51.

2. “I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life” (John 8:12).

3. “I am the door of the sheep. All who ever came before Me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them. I am the door. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved and will go in and out and find pasture” (John 10:7-9).

4. “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives His life for the sheep…I am the good shepherd; and I know my sheep, and am known by My own.” (John 10:11, 14).

5. “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live” (John 11:25).

6. “ I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me” (John 14:6).

7. “I am the true vine and My Father is the vinedresser… I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing” (John 15:1-5).