1. He would speak ill of you behind your back (Matt 26:14-15).
2. He would be thinking of ways he could hurt you, but with a smile (Matt 26:16).
3. He would find ways to cut corners at work, to cheat on his taxes. He would inflate the numbers as the CFO of a [...]
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This quote speaks volumes to the Christian about how great grace is and how practical it is to fight sin (Andrew Bonar, The Memoirs of Robert Murray McCheyne, 151-152). Enjoy!
I ought to confess the sins of my confessions,–their imperfections, sinful aims, self-righteous tendency, etc.,–and to look to Christ as having confessed my sins perfectly [...]
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Posted in The Church, Theology on Feb 20th, 2008 1 Comment »
I am afraid I was, and sometimes still am, replacing worship with music. It’s the balance between allowing culture to affect me and yet being in the culture that I live in, which I believe is absolutely a necessity as a Christian (Matthew 5:13-16). I love music of all types. I would [...]
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David Wells posts on George Barna’s poll to ‘Christians’ about alternatives to the local church. In other words, these are people who call themselves Christians but don’t believe the local church is a necessity to faith. Here are their alternatives that they found biblically acceptable (the parentheses show the % of people polled [...]
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Posted in Theology on Feb 20th, 2008 No Comments »
Dane has a great post on describing for those of us who are NPP illiterate, 7 foundational beliefs New Perspectives on Paul advocates have.
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Posted in Culture, Theology on Feb 20th, 2008 1 Comment »
I saw this clip of ER on Justin Taylor’s blog. It really does make you wonder how this was on TV. I think if I was dying and I heard a chaplain speak to me about some amorphous guilt and solution, I might have reacted as he did. Liberal Christianity has no [...]
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