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About Rev. Dr. David Bissett

I pastor a church in upstate NY. I'm happily married and the father of seven kids. It's fun, really! Leave me some feedback...

Welcome to the World, Trig Paxson Van Palin

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Alaska Governor Sara Palin is now in the national spotlight as the GOP nominee (to be) for Vice President of the United States. When she and husband Todd were 4 months into the pregnancy of their 5th child, they were told the baby had downs syndrome. One of the keenest Christian thinkers of our day, Dr Al Mohler, has re-posted his article about the birth of this little boy named Trig. You can read it HERE.

Praise the Lord for men and women of intergrity, putting pro-life views into acts of compassion and righteousness.
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Why does God love us?

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Thanks to my friend Tony for spotting this quote for us (and for the fine illustration):

In a sermon on John 3:16 (“God so loved, that he gave…”), Puritan Thomas Manton makes the following point on God’s indescribable love towards sinners in sending His Son:

“Love is at the bottom of all. We may give a reason of other things, but we cannot give a reason of his love, God showed his wisdom, power, justice, and holiness in our redemption by Christ. If you ask, Why he made so much ado about a worthless creature, raised out of the dust of the ground at first, and had now disordered himself, and could be of no use to him? We have an answer at hand, Because he loved us. If you continue to ask, But why did he love us? We have no other answer but because he loved us; for beyond the first rise of things we cannot go.

And the same reason is given by Moses, Deuteronomy 7:7-8: ‘The Lord did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because you were more in number than any people, for ye were the fewest of all people; but because the Lord loved you…’ That is, in short, he loved you because he loved you. All came from his free and undeserved mercy; higher we cannot go in seeking after the causes of what is done for our salvation.”

humbled by the truth,
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