I offer the passages below for those who want to “be holy as He is holy”. This of course requires that we know Him as holy. Thankfully He is constantly working in His church to present us to Himself “holy and blameless”.

The Living Triune God of the Bible is referred to twice in the New Testament as being Love (I John 4:8, 16). He is referred to over 100 times in the New Testament as being Holy. (I do not point this out to diminish the wonder of His love for us).

Obviously the oft repeated call to holiness for God's people is intended for the prophets and thankfully as Peter notes, many of them were noted by or for their holiness.

God who is holy has always expected His servants or the leaders of His people to likewise be holy. It is impossible for them to please Him in their service to Him apart from walking in holiness.

Angels are highly involved in day to day life on planet earth, but most people are unawares or even oblivious to this activity. God chose to give Daniel much revelation of their activity, at least partly due to Daniel's steadfast seeking of God and His kingdom.

This category of holiness in the Old Testament is by far the greatest in terms of occurrences. As you can see there are pages and pages of them. This gives us a sense of the scope or breadth of holiness.

The following verses in the Old Testament all relate to God's call for His people to be a holy people. I offer them for your meditation and study. Lord willing I will eventually expound on them. I trust you will find the progression of God's revelation instructive.

The following verses all speak to God's holiness. May the Lord open our eyes and give us revelation of these most important matters.

"the lost enjoy forever the horrible freedom they have demanded, and are therefore self-enslaved." C.S. Lewis - The Problem of Pain - p. 115 Dear Readers: Because some claim that a loving and good God would never cause the lost and rebellious to experience His judgment and the horrors of hell in an ongoing way; and they and others claim that God’s judgment will be immediate, once and for all, and will be over in a matter of minutes or hours, and will not continue throughout e

Genesis chps. 1-3 - God’s Original Plan for Marriage Genesis 2:24 - Man's Responsibility to leave parents Psalm 45:10,11 Wive's Responsibility to leave parents Psalm 112:1-3 - Blessing of God on man & family who fears God Psalm 127:1 - (re: building a home - not physical house) Psalm 128:1-4 - the Blessing of God on the family of the man who fears God Proverbs 2:16,17 – marriage as covenant with God Proverbs chps. 5-7 - pitfall of adultery Proverbs 5:15-19 – one solution

Thought it might be helpful to summarize the requests Paul listed in these passages and added one at the end. Romans 15:30-32 - - “ Now I urge you, brethren, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, to strive together with me in your prayers to God for me, that I may be rescued from those who are disobedient in Judea, and that my service for Jerusalem may prove acceptable to the saints; so that I may come to you in joy by the will of God and find refreshing res

I compiled this list for several reasons: First, so that leaders of Christ’s church will see the need to intentionally request prayer and not feel ashamed to do so. We are in good company when we do so.

One of the wonderful things about our God is that He is a living relational God, who speaks to His creation.

This study is meant to highlight what the Psalms teach us about the reality of sin, iniquities and transgressions, God's plentiful mercy for such, and the call to holiness in the Psalms - all of which should be a significant part of the foundation of Christ's church in every city

Like so many other things in the kingdom, we tend to think we know this, and tend to be a bit simplistic in talking about it to others. May meditation on these purpose statements result in greater devotion to Him, and greater effectiveness in speaking of the cross to others.

In preparation for Holy Week, I sensed the need for a tool to help us in our meditations on the greatness of our sin that required and led to the greatness of His sacrifice. Very easy to overlook or take for granted the greatness of His salvation and deliverance from the greatness of our sin and lostness.  

We are doing a six week or so sermon series on the Holy Spirit here at The Well – Los Osos, so I thought it might be helpful to see what leaders of the church down through the ages have said about the Holy Spirit.

My objective below was to try to find as many scriptures as I could that speak to the authority and reliability of scripture....... But hopefully there is enough below to help one see that you can bank your life and eternity on the scriptures.

King David is the only person in scripture deemed as “a man after God’s own heart” (Acts 13:22). I suppose there are a number of reasons why God esteems him as such. But surely one of them is because of how much David loved and cherished the people of God.

These promises have been a great encouragement to me over the years to talk less and pray more, though I still need to talk less and pray more. I trust they will be an encouragement to you as well!