Sanctification
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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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Some on Broken Pieces, by Salle J. Sandlin
Of the many hundreds of articles my late godly mother wrote, none has moved me as deeply as this one. If you feel your life is an irreversible series of hardships and disasters, this article is for you. “And the rest, some on boards, and some on broken pieces of the ship. And so it… Continue reading
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God Loves to Make — and Keep — Promises
God loves to bury His people beneath an avalanche of promises. It’s remarkable how our orthodoxy tends to extend to everything except trusting his promises. Listen here. Continue reading
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Let the Right One In
“If we open our heart to the ungodly, we are opening our heart to ungodliness. It is impossible to separate the person from his moral condition, as much as we would prefer to do so. We can proverbially love the sinner while hating the sin, but we cannot open our heart to the sinner while… 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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The Diabolical Disappearance of Answered Prayer
In 2020, it’s difficult to imagine a Christian college president anywhere writing such a bold, faith-drenched book. Such simple, fearless faith poses an embarrassment to the minds of many modern well-educated Christians deeply vested in Enlightenment rationalism and soft-core Christian deism, which sees God as so transcendent and aloof as not to be actively, eagerly,… 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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Jesus, Not Politics, Saves
In reading the current fracas over at American Vision (and I want to mention here that I have the highest personal regard for Gary DeMar), I was reminded again of a travesty I observed frequently while a part of the Theonomy movement (with which I no longer identify): the apparent subordination of Christianity to politics,… 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