I couldn’t help thinking about our Romans Study and my post from last Thursday (May it never be, absolutely not!) as the scripture was being read while my pastor was preaching on the fire of the Holy Spirit in Luke 3:15-18. I was reading and following along in Luke, then something took a hold of me, I love when the Lord teaches me at times like these and I instantly connected it to Paul,…
The Greatness of Being a Slave… But it is not this way among you, but whoever wishes to become great among you shall be your servant; 44 and whoever wishes to be first among you shall be slave of all. 45 For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.” Mark 10: 43-45 “So in the New Testament we are told to…
And you were dead in your trespasses and sins, Ephesians 2:1 “Death in sin is of course a figure, and must be interpreted as such; for moral death is its meaning, and by moral death we understand the utter absence of everything holy, heavenly, spiritual, and divine–the entire lack of participation in, and conformity to the life which God lives as essentially and eternally holy, pure, wise, and good, and forever dwelling in the glorious…
Christians in Name Only from PyroManiacs, Your weekly dose of Spurgeon… The first charge of general defilement Christ brings against the church in Sardis was that they had a vast deal of open profession, and but little of sincere religion. “I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead” (Revelation 3:1). Read the rest Here Nuance Is Necessary by Kevin DeYoung… Christians must be careful thinkers, especially those…
“We often hear the “Savior” characteristics of God stressed- his love, mercy, goodness and so on – but the matter of his lordship is absent. The distortion is particularly clear in evangelism. In modern practice the call to repentance is usually called an “invitation,” which one can obviously accept or refuse. It is offered politely. Seldom do we hear presented God’s sovereign demand to repent or His demand for total submission to the authority…
I posted this on Tuesday What I Learned In Church This Week. “The Antinomians say they’re saved by grace but they live sinful lives, what we do doesn’t matter as long as we believe rightly.” I often hear from people “where’s your grace and show them grace” But is that the answer showing people who are in sin grace? Let me say that I know the believer is not in bondage to the law,…
Pastor Jim McClarty discusses what the Bible actually says about how people are saved. Along the way he contrasts synergism and monergism, points out the power of facts, and reviews some of the pertinent texts concerning salvation. “So which of these two, synergism or monergism is biblical? We really need to settle that because if you think God works synergistically, you’re going to view God differently than the people who say God works monergically.…
The Sunday school class in Romans was really good this week, it was one of those bible studies that I will remember for a very long time. We continue to make our way through the book of Romans at a very slow pace, digging into all the nooks and crevices, all the twist and turns, so what often happens is I turn right down rabbit trail lane and we found ourselves into an apparent…
The Necessities for Effective Prayer And Jesus answered saying to them, “Have faith in God. 23 Truly I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says is going to happen, it will be granted him. 24 Therefore I say to you, all things for which you pray and ask, believe that you have…
The Sea, and All That Is Therein By Phil Johnson… This is a great story about God’s providence… “All the trials we go through would be a whole lot easier to endure if we had more trust in the workings of Providence.” It was the summer of 1997. I was slated to go on one of those week-long ministry-sponsored cruises along the Inside Passage in Alaska with Darlene—a full week of Bible teaching and…
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