The impossible Christian life is the only one that can be lived because it is the only one God gives grace for.
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This morning in Bible study a few of us were looking at Galatians 2. Obviously, as we go further in Galatians, we need a good working definition of justification, and we went after that.
The Greek word justify is just the word righteous used as a verb. Thus to justify is to make righteous.
Really, though, that [...]
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Sometimes I don’t get around to blogging because everything I write is so long and takes an hour to write.
I wrote the following on a
young friend’s blog, and I thought I should make it my own blog post.
She wrote:
I was just thinking about how we say that we want to follow Him, and we deny [...]
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I just wrote a long post on works. It’s long because I took the time to try to answer some concerns that honest, God-fearing modern Christians have about the things I say about works (which I got from the Scriptures and the apostles’ churches).
Another post that aroused concerns was my post on the atonement. In [...]
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I am saying that the same effort to walk in the light and walk by the Spirit that allows you to experience continual forgiveness and the the righteousness of Christ will also produce practical, visible righteousness in your life.
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This morning two things brought up the issue of what the Gospel is.
Note: I reproduced this at Christian History for Everyman, where I could include sidebars with quotes from early Christian writings showing you that this is what the apostles’ churches taught as well.
One, I am a member of Tangle, a Christian version of [...]
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Someone wrote me telling me that they’re reading the early Christian writings, including David Bercot’s Writings. Then he asked me if I have any advice.
For those that want to live the life that the apostles and early Christians lived, I do have advice. It is as follows:
I can’t really tell what advice you’re asking for. [...]
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This blog started as a comment on one of my other posts, but it kept growing. This post is self-explanatory without seeing the comment I’m responding to, but if you’d like to, it’s on my September 20 post.
The Great Commission
The statement that the great commission was for more than the apostles is made often, in [...]
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Except the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ Jesus make a man sick of his opinions, he may hold them to doomsday for me; for no opinion, I repeat is Christianity, and no preaching of any plan of salvation is the preaching of the glorious gospel of [...]
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We all want to know about Christian parenting. We would all like to know how to keep our children from jumping ship and going to the world.
Today, I heard a speech by Ken Ham, president of Answers in Genesis, who blames belief in modern scientific evidence for things like evolution as the reason why children [...]
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I've been using this advice for 10 years.
Simply put, it works.
Pain-Free Living can literally be life-changing.
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