Lesson 18: The Highs and Lows of the Christian Life
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Justin Peters and Gabriel Hughes on the Chosen
In this video, Justin Peters interviews Gabriel Hughes regarding “The Chosen” and other projected that have portrayed Jesus and whether or not it is a second commandment violation.
The More Things Change…
the more they stay the same. That’s the old adage. And in a sense, it is quite true. Recently the topic of Roman Catholicism has been front and center on Twitter. Taylor Marshall, a convert to Roman Catholicism (of some sort, anyway, though surely not the same sort as Pope Francis holds), has been posting short, sort of “in your […]
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Is Ministry In The Church Only The Duty of The Pastor?
When one uses the term “ministry” we ordinarily think of the work of the pastor. Certainly he has a special obligation to the flock, but the New Testament also calls on each of us to care for our fellow members, looking upon their needs as our responsibilities.
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Book Review: Impossible Christianity by Kevin DeYoung
Is Christianity Impossible? Are the commandments hard to follow? We know from 1 John 5:3 that God’s commandments are not burdensome yet many in the church have made it hard to follow God.Many Christians have put too many man-made rules for following Go…
Serving In The Church: Volunteerism… or Responsibility?
“Each one should use whatever spiritual gift he has received to serve others, faithfully administering God’s grace in its various forms. If anyone speaks, he should do it as one speaking the very words of God. If anyone serves, he should do it with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may […]
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Why the Bodily Assumption is wrong, unBiblical, and not early in Church History.
Gavin Ortlund does an excellent job of showing how the dogma of the Bodily Assumption of Mary is wrong and not early in church history, and, in 1950, for the Pope to make it a dogma on pain of anathema … Continue reading
In the Name of the most Holy and undivided Trinity
The Paris Treaty of 1783, which brought an official end to the Revolutionary War and acknowledged the existence of the United States of America, began in this thoroughly secular, Darwinian, non-binary, marry whoever you want at any age you want, way: In the Name of the most Holy and undivided Trinity. We live in a day when acknowledging the “Name […]
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How Christians Can Deal with Doubt
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How Christians Can Deal with Doubt
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Are Christians Allowed to Doubt? My Conversation with Josh Chatraw
At the inaugural Keller Center gathering last spring, I got together with Josh Chatraw, Billy Graham Chair of Evangelism at Beeson Divinity School, to discuss this important issue of doubt in the Christian life. The video of our conversation …
Are Christians Allowed to Doubt? My Conversation with Josh Chatraw
At the inaugural Keller Center gathering last spring, I got together with Josh Chatraw, Billy Graham Chair of Evangelism at Beeson Divinity School, to discuss this important issue of doubt in the Christian life. The video of our conversation …
Are Christians Allowed to Doubt? My Conversation with Josh Chatraw
At the inaugural Keller Center gathering last spring, I got together with Josh Chatraw, Billy Graham Chair of Evangelism at Beeson Divinity School, to discuss this important issue of doubt in the Christian life. The video of our conversation is below.
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Counseling One Another
As the church is more and more influenced by the standards of society, rather than the objective Word of God, this individualism and opposition to authority has become rampant even among professing Christians. The thought of other Christians interfering in our lives, especially admonishing us, would raise serious objections among many in our churches today.
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Forgiven and Forgiving
In all the Christian vocabulary there is scarcely a word more cherished that the word forgiven. It is basic to all our hope. We stand before God accused, guilty, and owing a debt greater than we could ever pay. But resting our case on Jesus Christ who in the place of sinners paid that debt in […]
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As You Have Been Forgiven
“Merciful LORD, pardon all my sins of this day, week, year, all the sins of my life, sins of early, middle, & advanced years, of omission & commission, of morose, peevish & angry tempers, of lip, life & walk, of hard-heartedness, unbelief, presumption, pride, of unfaithfulness to the souls of men, of want of bold […]
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Children Forgiven In Light Of The Facts
1 John 3:2-6 “Beloved, now we are children of God, and it has not appeared as yet what we will be. We know that when He appears, we will be like Him, because we will see Him just as He is. And everyone who has this hope fixed on Him purifies himself, just as He […]
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Great Forgiveness For Great Sin
Great Forgiveness for Great Sin Charles Spurgeon Preached December 31, 1876 Published MTP 1903 Provided by Mack Tomlinson I like the way Luther talks upon this subject. … He says, “Jesus Christ is not a sham savior for sham sinners, but He is a real Savior Who offers a real atonement for real sin, for […]
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Divine Forgiveness Admired and Imitated
“Divine Forgiveness Admired and Imitated” Colossians 3:13 Charles Spurgeon MTP, May 1885 Sermon number 1841 Taken from Spurgeon’s Expository Encyclopedia 7:401, 402, 405, 406. When He forgives He forgives the whole of our faults, follies, failures, and offenses. There is a certain solidarity about sin, so that it makes up one lump. I read the other day […]
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His Forgiveness and Our Love
Our love for Jesus flows directly from our awareness of how much he has forgiven us. I do not minimize the compelling nature of his attributes when I affirm this. His excellence should move us to love him in and of himself apart from any favors we receive. In forgiveness, however, we see all of […]
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Forgiving Myself?
“Forgiving myself” is common practice among Christians today, almost taken for granted as right, necessary, and biblical. The idea runs roughly like this: when I sin, I must confess my wrongdoing to God, accept his pardon, and then forgive myself. Poignantly reflecting the heavily psychologized world in which the Church walks, to witness how vigorously […]
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Forgiving God?
Plans sputter, hopes crumble, relationships derail, or evil exposes itself. I know I did my part – but God didn’t come through. Because life is full of disappointments, modern pastors and writers inform me, it must also be full of forgiveness. Their sage advice? Loosely commandeering Psalm 142:2, they urge cultivating a lifestyle of forgiving others, forgiving […]
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Forgiveness Is Divine
Forgiveness is divine. That is to say that it takes divine and supernatural grace to forgive. It could be argued that only those who have been forgiven by divine grace are empowered by divine grace to (properly) forgive. There are serval reasons why divine grace is needed for forgiveness: Where does this grace and power […]
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John Mark, Forgiven
We Baptists would agree with Catholic Canon Law when it proscribes baby names “foreign to Christian sentiment.” So ‘Jezebel’ and ‘Judas’ are out of bounds. No right-minded parents would touch those names with a stick. Unfortunately, my namesake, Mark, has a black mark on his record, and it’s only by the grace of God, and the […]
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Just How Important Is the Church?
To be without a local family of God is to miss some of God’s richest blessings. Just how important is your church?
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So, What Did Jesus Think about the Old Testament?
The Old Testament has run into some hard times as of late. It’s seen by many as a curmudgeonly, legalistic, violent, confusing, and, maybe most of all, boring sort of book. As the atheist Richard Dawkins famously opined, “The God of the Old Testa…
So, What Did Jesus Think about the Old Testament?
The Old Testament has run into some hard times as of late. It’s seen by many as a curmudgeonly, legalistic, violent, confusing, and, maybe most of all, boring sort of book. As the atheist Richard Dawkins famously opined, “The God of the Old Testament …
The Church: Universal and Local
There are many professing Christians who do not attend a local church, saying that they “can be a Christian without going to church.” However, it is clear that such people cannot be obedient Christians.
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Our Work Matters To God
Realizing that all work is holy to God is a key ingredient in our being pleasing to the Lord. God is equally as concerned with our attitude and example whether we repair broken plumbing pipes, trade stock on a brokerage floor, lead a Bible class at church, or evangelize a native on some foreign mission field.
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