Holy Spirit
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Clinging to Our Torments
It is one of the great mysteries of the hold of sin that we cling so tenaciously to those vices that most grieve and torture us — resentment, unhappiness, jealousy, vengeance, anxiety, bitterness, covetousness, pessimism, and unbelief. Our fist-clenched grasp on these self-destructive sins is almost a form of masochism. We cherish them despite the… Continue reading
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Answered Prayers Should Be Routine
The Bible does not hold up the saints of those eras as enjoying more successful prayer lives than ours. Listen here. Continue reading
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Prayer Changes Things, and Prayer Changed Me
A short autobiographical message on the power of prayer to change a life. Listen here. Also: One striking difference between our Christian forebears and us is their repeated emphasis on prayer and our comparative de-emphasis of it. They prayed frequently and fervently. We pray infrequently and languidly. They called prayer meetings. We call staff meetings.… Continue reading
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Prayer, Fuel of the Kingdom
No single human factor contributes more to the advance of Christ’s kingdom than mighty, faith-drenched, persevering prayer. Listen here. Continue reading
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Apostasy and Assurance
“If we’re united to Jesus Christ, we will persevere and cannot apostatize, and we can have rock-solid assurance that we cannot.” Read the rest here. Continue reading
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Our Promissory God
Several decades ago a Canadian schoolteacher Everett Storms read the Bible through 27 times specifically counting God’s promises. The number he came up with is 7,487. We might dis‐ pute that number, but of this there must be no doubt: you can find thousands of God’s promises in the Bible. If you read nothing but… Continue reading
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Pessimism Is Not a Strategy
“Hope is not a strategy” — this is an increasingly popular adage. It means that we can be hopeful all we want, but unless we have a plan and strategy in place to accomplish what we’re hoping for, that hope will likely be dashed. This adage is a gleaming example of commonsensical, contra-biblical, worldly wisdom.… Continue reading
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Transformation by Resurrection
What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it? Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? Therefore we were buried with Him… Continue reading
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Hatred for History
For all the Athenians and strangers which were there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear, some new thing (Acts 17:21) . . . they soon forgot . . . (Psalm 106:13) Richard Weaver said in Ideas Have Consequences: “It has been well said that the chief trouble with… Continue reading