Broadcast<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n The Year in Review - Part 1\n Psalm 119:105\n 12\/29\/2025\n\n\n 105 Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my\n path. (ESV)\n\n This week, as we are counting down to midnight on New Year's\n Eve, we are going to review some of the truth that you have heard\n this year. This is much more uplifting than listing the\n celebrity deaths in 2025, or the ten top natural disasters since\n last January.\n\n Let's start with the Bible. We believe, teach, and confess\n that the Bible is the Word of God. The Bible does not merely\n contain parts which may be the Word of God, nor does the Bible\n contain parts not appropriate for our learning because of the\n genre of the writing.[1] From the Genesis account through the\n prophecies of Revelation, God inspired prophets, evangelists,\n poets, and apostles to write His words, to give us the truth of\n His love.\n\n Psalm 119 says: ``Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light\n to my path.'' So far, no one has made credible job of proving\n the Bible wrong. Some may disagree with the creation account, or\n the miracles, but their faith in evolution or the lack of God's\n power requires more trust than does Christian belief.\n\n The Bible is written for one purpose, as summarized by Saint\n John the Evangelist:\n Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of the\n disciples, which are not written in this book; but\n these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is\n the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you\n may have life in his name.[2]\n\n May our Lord open our eyes and ears to read and hear His\n Holy Word for our salvation from sin and death. Amen.\n\n ____________________\n\n 1. see: Fee, G. D., Stuart, D. (2014). How to read the Bible for\n all its worth (4th ed.). Grand Rapids: Zondervan Academic, p.\n 215. ``In the same way, when the psalmist says, `And in sin\n did my mother conceive me' (Psalm 51:5 NASB), the writer is\n hardly trying to establish the doctrine that conception is\n sinful, or that all conceptions are sinful, or that the mother\n was a sinner by getting pregnant, or that original sin applies\n to unborn children, or any such notion. The psalmist has\n employed hyperbole -- purposeful exaggeration -- in order to\n express strongly and vividly that he is a sinner, with a long\n history of such. Thus the present NIV has put it well:\n `Surely I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time my mother\n conceived me.' This is poetry, not theology, where the\n psalmist expressed poetically that his sinful ways did not\n begin recently. ... Thus, when you read a psalm, be careful\n that you do not try to derive from it concepts that were never\n intended by the musical poet who was inspiried to write it.''\n\n Contrast this with the words of Jesus recorded in Luke\n 24:44: ``Then he said to them, `These are my words that I\n spoke to you while I was still with you, that everything\n written about me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the\n Psalms must be fulfilled.'''\n\n 2. John 20:30-31 (ESV)<\/code><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"December 29, 2025 Broadcast<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-turn-your-radio-on-2025"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4260"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4263,"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4260\/revisions\/4263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}