Dead to sin

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Let It Burn… Our Warfare Is Ended Mar 23, 2022 Control is an illusion, but isolation is not.
Put It Down. That’s Not Your Sin Any More. May 3, 2021 The cross of Christ is God’s last and endless word. There the prince of this world is judged, there sin is killed, and pride is done to death, there lust is frozen, and self-interest slaughtered, not…
Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum May 19, 2020 (Latin: If you want peace, prepare for war) We live in a culture that, as Cardinal Francis George said, “permits everything and yet forgives nothing.” And so people despair of being forgiven and feel compelled to…
Guarding Against The Identity Theft of Licentiousness Aug 11, 2019 Grace is no more a license to sin than electricity is a license to electrocute yourself. ~Dr. Paul Ellis … If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ…
Cutting Away Our Self-Regard Feb 28, 2019 “Then the lion said — but I don’t know if it spoke — You will have to let me undress you. I was afraid of his claws, I can tell you, but I was pretty nearly…
Kingdom Mysterion Jan 2, 2019 When are we living in Christ? When we live according to His Gospel and His Church. For He Himself, and not only His Gospel, is in the Church with all of His perfections and virtues. The…
Death’s Work in Our Lives Nov 19, 2018 Death is only painful to him who resists it. The imagination exaggerates its terrors. The spirit argues endlessly to show the propriety of the life of self. Self-love fights against death, like a sick man in…
Longing for A Certain Death Apr 21, 2017 There is an intimate bond between the sufferings of Christ and the conflict and suffering in each Christian life. The daily dying of the Christian is a prolongation of Christ’s own death. Paul writes in Romans…
Living The Life of The Dead Mar 12, 2017 There’s a part of you – the born-again part, your spirit – that’s dead to sin. That’s why it bothers you now when you sin. The ‘wilderness’ part of you – your soul – is your…
Awakening to Our True Hunger Dec 29, 2016 I came to love You late, O Beauty so ancient and new; I came to love You late. You were within me and I was outside, where I rushed about wildly searching for You like some…
Keeping Our Shadows Behind Us Oct 31, 2016 A continual looking forward to the eternal world is not a form of escapism or wishful thinking, but one of the things a Christian is meant to do. It does not mean that we are to…
Bulletproof Dead Sep 6, 2016 The Blood disposes of our sins, while the Cross strikes at the root of our capacity for sin.~ Watchman Nee For if we have been united with Him in a death like His, we shall certainly…
Still, Like Water Sep 4, 2016 It is only with total humility, and in absolute stillness of mind that we can know what indeed we are.~ Terence James Stannus Gray I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you…
Living Free among The Captives Aug 21, 2016 The martyr cannot be dishonored… every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.~Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) Behold, I am sending you out as…
Dead, Freed, Alive – And Loved Forever Aug 13, 2016 There were some who said that a man at the point of death was more free than all others, because death breaks every bond, and over the dead the united world has no power.~François Fénelon (1651-1715)For…
Finding The Fullness in Christ May 3, 2016 He that willingly submits to the cross, to him its whole burden is changed into a sweet assurance of divine comfort. And the more the flesh is broken down by the cross, the more the spirit…
Good Friday Meditation: Overcoming The Cycle of Sin’s Poverty Mar 25, 2016 Living as the beloved- no more reduced lifestyle, walk with Him, into this place of favor, live in a place of unbroken delight, where the poverty of sin cannot touch us, where His newness of life…
Dead Man Loving Feb 16, 2016 We become what we love. When we are fixed and focused on who God is in His essential nature then the presence of His agape love in us sets us free to love in the same…
Living Beyond Our Agendas Oct 30, 2015 Jesus Christ set a window in the tiny dark dungeon of the ego in which we all languish, letting in a light, providing a vista, and offering a way of release from the servitude of the…
The Emissary’s Authority Sep 11, 2015 God is not saving the world; it is done. Our business is to get men and women to realize it… How many people have you made homesick for God?~Oswald Chambers (1874-1917) Now the eleven disciples went…
Shame Is The Prelude to Failure May 22, 2015 Remorse is to carry your own accuser within your breast.~ George Moore (1852-1933)So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand. For I delight in…
Hosea’s Lesson Mar 29, 2015 To be willing to accept crucifixion with Christ; to leave all yourself, your plans and your longings, your abilities and your possessions, all of them at the cross so that you only trust and love and…
Dawn of The Dead – Four Years of Living The Crucified Life Oct 19, 2014 We have one function in life: to be the manifestors of His life to the world. Only when we are living His life are we truly living our own! This is the reason for our creation.~Malcolm…
Don’t Listen to Dead Men’s Tales Oct 9, 2014 The Holy Ghost destroys my personal private life and turns it into a thoroughfare for God.~Oswald Chambers (1874-1917)“This is like the days of Noah to Me: as I swore that the waters of Noah should no…
Ignorance Is Not Bliss Oct 9, 2014 However, when we are employed in obtaining an assurance of His love, we are still to an extent busy with self. Our defects, regarded in peace and in the spirit of love, are instantly consumed by…
Fully Dead and Completely Alive! Sep 10, 2013 The purpose of Christ’s redeeming work was to make it possible for bad men to become good—deeply, radically, and finally.~A. W. Tozer (1897-1963)Therefore, knowing the fear of the Lord, we persuade others. But what we are…