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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One obedience leads to another. He who is faithful in little will be faithful in much.
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If you want to have joy, peace, and righteousness, I highly recommend believing these things and coming boldly to the throne of grace to obtain the grace you need.
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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’d like to direct those of you who read this to the commentary section of my Rest of the Old, Old Story site. I’m going to start updating it, beginning with the things found in today’s blog on Jeremiah 6.
Why should you read a commentary put together by me (especially one as sparse as is [...]
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What is salvation? I like to use the example of a saved drowning person. The saved person is the one who’s standing on the shore. The unsaved person is the one in the water, flapping their arms in the air and going under for the 3rd time.
It’s the same with Christian salvation. Peter likes to [...]
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I really didn’t mean to be writing a series on the church, but here goes part IV.
Most attempts at starting house churches/simple churches/”the” church don’t go anywhere. That’s acknowledged in most of Gene Edwards’ books. I’m not sure about Frank Viola’s.
Why?
Problem 1: Christians Don’t Know What the Church Is
It never ceases to amaze me that [...]
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Romans 7 and Romans 8, do Christians really understand those two chapters of the Bible?
Recently a number of members of Rose Creek Village went to a “Jesus Radicals” conference. As odd as it may sound, the Jesus Radicals conference was a Christian anarchy conference.
Since Christ basically means king [it means "anointed," and refers to the [...]
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No comments of my own today. Everything’s borrowed.
I wrote a post yesterday called “Intellectual Honesty and Throwing Up.” I’m trying to decide whether it’s worth posting, needs editing, or just needs to be thrown out.
For today, though, Voice of the Martyrs quoted Wilbur Rees as saying:
I would like to buy $3 worth of God, please. [...]
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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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