by Pastor Baltazar A. Niangar, Pastor Emeritus, Th.B., A.B., D.D. “The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.” — Psalm 51:17 Most of us work hard not to be broken. We protect our image, defend our record, and hope no one looks too closely.

by Pastor Baltazar A. Niangar, Pastor Emeritus, Th.B., A.B., D.D. “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless

“For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever. Amen.” — Romans 11:36 Many believers can tell you the day they came to faith, yet are unsure what to say when someone asks what salvation actually is. Is it a decision I made, a debt Christ paid, or

“For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.” — Romans 8:38–39 Every believer, sooner or later,

by Pastor Baltazar A. Niangar, Pastor Emeritus, Th.B., A.B., D.D. “He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity into man’s heart, yet so that man cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.” — Ecclesiastes 3:11 Have you ever stood under a night sky, or beside

by Pastor Baltazar A. Niangar, Pastor Emeritus, Th.B., A.B., D.D. “And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place, that they should seek God, and perhaps feel their way toward him and find him.” —

by Pastor Baltazar A. Niangar, Pastor Emeritus, Th.B., A.B., D.D. “Come now, let us reason together, says the LORD.” — Isaiah 1:18 Every person is already asking, “How do I know?” The student weighing a lecture, the parent reading the news, and the believer listening to a sermon are all deciding what counts as knowledge and

by Pastor Baltazar A. Niangar, Pastor Emeritus, Th.B., A.B., D.D. “Weep no more; behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has conquered, so that he can open the scroll and its seven seals.” — Revelation 5:5 Few books of the Bible are read with more fear and more confusion than

by Pastor Baltazar A. Niangar, Pastor Emeritus, Th.B., A.B., D.D. “Seventy weeks are decreed about your people and your holy city, to finish the transgression, to put an end to sin, and to atone for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal both vision and prophet, and to anoint a most holy place.” —