Over the last twenty-nine years our devotional publication has gone through many changes. The first issue, in May of 1996, was a simple, one-page, text-only devotional published weekly via e-mail to subscribers. It is now full-color, multi-page, and published monthly—on the 15th—at our web site. It is available in three formats: including two PDFs, one in landscape, for easier viewing on screen (Reflections’ native and preferred format), and one in portrait, for printing.
September 2025 Issue
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Without the Law and the Prophets, we would know nothing of God; He would have kept all that a secret, leaving us to be utterly ignorant of our sin, yet perishing in it.
Thus the Law, in establishing the critical context for atonement and redemption, expresses the deep love of God for His Creation almost as much as the sacrifice of His Son.
The glory of the ministry of the Mosaic Covenant remains; it is still there. But with the advent of the new covenant, the old covenant’s glory has been overwhelmed by the glory of the ministry of Christ Jesus. He fulfills the old by answering all its demands in Himself—and that truth is glorious beyond all comprehension.
The two-fold purpose of Reflections by the Pond is to, first of all, bring glory and honor to God the Father and His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, and then to build up believers into a higher—and deeper—level of sanctification.
And by His grace we will.
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