by Bill Elliff
March 18, 2024
If you are in Christ, you are forgiven! You are justified before God! You are standing before God with peace facing Him. You stand in a state of grace (and forever will). All of this has been accomplished totally and completely by God the Father and His precious Son.
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by Bill Elliff
December 12, 2023
... But just as beautiful and glorious for the believer, it was the opposite for those who would not believe in Jesus. To all who reject Him, His coming would lead to an undeniable and inescapable judgment for their sins. Christ’s coming would make way for salvation but would also be the instrument to bring the final reckoning upon rebellious men.
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by Bill Elliff
November 28, 2023
Like Isaiah, the true believer in Jesus Christ has an outer garment and inner change; they will never take off. They are wrapped up in robes of rightness or righteousness.
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by Bill Elliff
November 24, 2023
And then, have you, in humility, realized your need for a Savior to deliver you from the darkness? Have you turned to Him and cried out for the deliverance that only He can give? And have you trusted in His promise that “all who call upon the name of the Lord will be saved?”
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by Bill Elliff
November 13, 2023
Isaiah is filled with prophecies about Israel and also her enemies. Whole nations are described, and their rise or fall is ultimately dependent upon God. He lifts up one and puts down another, all according to His ultimate agenda and their responses to Him.
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by Bill Elliff
September 25, 2023
More numerous than you know are the moments when God has pulled you out of the pit by His compassion. Rescued you because of the pure grace of His mercy. Delivered you because of previous promises He has made, perhaps even to your own parents. Shown kindness to you that you did not deserve simply because of His great love and eternal purposes.
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by Bill Elliff
September 20, 2023
The beginning pages of Genesis give us the operating principles upon which God and man were to function. God, in mercy, provided a garden with every possible goodness. He intended for man to enjoy this perfect environment but, most importantly, to enjoy God’s continual presence. God and man and wife would walk together.
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by Bill Elliff
August 21, 2023
It is our great problem and the reason for all that is evil in this world. Man chose to sin from the beginning—to run independently from the God who made him. And the results have been catastrophic. No one could deliver us from the foundational problem that separates us from God … except One.
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by Bill Elliff
July 31, 2023
You have a tragic, irreconcilable problem. You are a sinner (and so are we all). We came into this world separated from God, sinners by birth. But we are also sinners by choice. And our sin bears the ultimate result: it separates us from God. This is the worst penalty, for we were designed to live on God, and it’s impossible to find life without Him.
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by Bill Elliff
May 25, 2023
Have you seen the kingdom of God? More importantly, have you entered the Kingdom? Many profess to be Christians, but they have never seen or really entered.
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by Bill Elliff
February 06, 2023
What happens when you combine a desperate man, a revealing Christ, and a courageous messenger?
A changed life.
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by Bill Elliff
December 31, 2022
All your resolutions and goals—personal, relational, professional, and financial—are temporary and will seem so trivial on that day. They pale in comparison to this singular eternal question ...
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