Sin demands to have a man by himself. It withdraws him from the community. The more isolated a person is, the more destructive will be the power of sin over him, and the more deeply he becomes involved in it, the more disastrous is his isolation. Sin wants to remain unknown. It shuns the light [But] In confession, the light of the gospel breaks into the light Since the con...

How does God use threatening circumstances to refine our faith? Isaiah 7 is the story of Ahaz, the king of misplaced faith. He refused to believe the promises of God and instead put his trust in his own devices (Assyria). God offers a sign of the validity of His promise but Ahaz preferred to trust in a pagan king and his army rather than to trust the Word of God. The threa...