July 2025 – Standing Before God, This We Are and No More

Three Unions – Adolph Saphir

The follow is an excerpt from Adolph Saphir’s book Christ and the Church, written in the 1800s. You can read the book here: https://standingbeforegodblog.wordpress.com/the-works-of-adolph-saphir/ Let us ever with adoring hearts believe in the three unions which the Church of Christ has confessed in all ages. First, we behold Jesus, God and man, two natures in one Person; theContinue reading “Three Unions – Adolph Saphir”

Organically Whole – Adolph Saphir

The follow is an excerpt from Adolph Saphir’s book Christ and the Scriptures, published in 1867. You can read the book here: https://standingbeforegodblog.wordpress.com/the-works-of-adolph-saphir/ If the Bible were like a collection of stones, we might select some and put aside others, as less valuable and beautiful; and although in such selection we might make great mistakes,Continue reading “Organically Whole – Adolph Saphir”

Trusting, Even As… – Adolph Saphir

The follow is an excerpt from Adolph Saphir’s book Our Life-Day, published in 1878. You can read the book here: https://standingbeforegodblog.wordpress.com/the-works-of-adolph-saphir/ The humble soul rejoices in this dependence, even as the all-generous God delights in being our shelter, our strength, and our everlasting home. God, who is our only help, who is nearer to us thanContinue reading “Trusting, Even As… – Adolph Saphir”

Thou Seest Me – Adolph Saphir

The follow is an excerpt from Adolph Saphir’s book Our Life-Day, published in 1878. You can read the book here: https://standingbeforegodblog.wordpress.com/the-works-of-adolph-saphir/ It is the glory of man that he is utterly dependent on God. Apart from God human life is unintelligible and wretched. We are not able to understand ourselves. Our whole existence is a darkContinue reading “Thou Seest Me – Adolph Saphir”

Eternity Revealed – Adolph Saphir

The follow is an excerpt from Adolph Saphir’s book Christ and the Church, written in the 1800s. You can read the book here: https://standingbeforegodblog.wordpress.com/the-works-of-adolph-saphir/ Jesus, by the name of God, reveals to us eternity. Not a lonely, quiescent God, as neither mind can conceive nor affection grasp, but a God in whom, from all eternity, there was fulnessContinue reading “Eternity Revealed – Adolph Saphir”

Two Reformation Principles – Adolph Saphir

The follow is an excerpt from Adolph Saphir’s book Christ and the Scriptures, published in 1885. You can read the book here: https://standingbeforegodblog.wordpress.com/the-works-of-adolph-saphir/ The Reformation is based upon the two principles— Christ only, Christ above all; and the Scriptures only, the Bible above all human authority. Luther found peace for his troubled conscience in Jesus as theContinue reading “Two Reformation Principles – Adolph Saphir”