salvation
- Duo Obituaries Oct 10, 2023 If we have never been hurt by a statement of Jesus, it is questionable whether we have ever really heard him speak. Jesus Christ has no tenderness whatever toward anything that is ultimately going to ruin…
- Blood Everywhere Aug 17, 2021 What the world calls virtue, without Christ, is a name and a dream. The foundation of all human excellence must be laid deep in the blood of the Redeemer’s cross and in the power of his…
- Mysterium Fidei (The Mystery of Faith) Mar 21, 2021 The mystery of the Bible should teach us, at one and the same time, our nothingness and our greatness, producing humility and animating hope.~Henry Dundas Melville (1742-1811) O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is Your name…
- There Has to Be More! Our Deepest Yearnings at Christmas Dec 23, 2020 It may be possible for each to think too much of his own potential glory hereafter; it is hardly possible for him to think too often or too deeply about that of his neighbour. The load,…
- Hedged in By Freedom Jun 16, 2019 The difficulty of explaining “why I am a Catholic” is that there are ten thousand reasons all amounting to one reason: that Catholicism is true. ~G.K. Chesterton Now when Jesus came into the district of Caesarea…
- My Testimony: Apologetics As A New Creation Oct 2, 2018 May you be encouraged. Christ has set me free to Love and serve.
- Oh Billy! Thanks for The Memories Feb 25, 2018 Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion – it is a daily process whereby you grow to be more and more like Christ…. The cross shows us the seriousness of our sin—but it…
- Uzziah Days: The Times of Our Coming Undone Jan 18, 2018 It is not true to say that God wants to teach us something in our trials. In every cloud he brings, God wants us to unlearn something. God’s purpose in the cloud is to simplify our…
- Judgement Day Is Real: And It Is A Harder Day Than We Think Nov 13, 2017 Each man receives his eternal retribution in his immortal soul at the very moment of his death, in a particular judgment that refers his life to Christ: either entrance into the blessedness of heaven-through a purification…
- G_d Is Not Fair! : The Scandal of The Cross Sep 30, 2017 The Lord loves all people, but He loves those who seek Him even more. To his chosen ones the Lord gives such great grace that for love they forsake the whole earth, the whole world, and…
- Princes of The Kingdom: Living ἐν κηρύγματι May 28, 2017 The deeper we grow in the Spirit of Jesus Christ, the poorer we become – the more we realize that everything in life is a gift. The tenor of our lives becomes one of humble and…
- Deeper Belief: Into Who Jesus Is May 25, 2017 The bending of the mind by the powers of this world has twisted the gospel of grace into religious bondage and distorted the image of God into an eternal, small-minded bookkeeper. The Christian community resembles a…
- Proclaiming The Mystery of The Gospel Apr 27, 2017 In what way, or by what manner of working God changes a soul from evil to good—how he impregnates the barren rock with priceless gems and gold—is, to the human mind, an impenetrable mystery. ~Samuel Taylor…
- The Word And His Work on Good Friday Apr 14, 2017 The world is the immeasurable totality of energies and forms, a tissue of relations extending into ever-increasing enormity and withdrawing into ever-decreasing minuteness. All this was thought, willed, and realized by God. Nothing was supplied for…
- A Maundy Thursday Prayer for Peace and Salvation Apr 13, 2017 A Prayer from Ephesians 2 and Revelation 5 Blessed Father and Beloved Son and Precious Holy Spirit, help us to remember that we were once separated and living apart from Jesus Christ – and were excluded…
- Exulting Over The Majesty of Our Salvation Mar 10, 2017 Only to sit and think of God, Oh what a joy it is! To think the thought, to breathe the name Earth has no higher bliss. ~Frederick William Faber (1814-1863) And Mary said, “My soul magnifies…
- Eternally Done: The Nature of Our Salvation Feb 17, 2017 So, are you worried about whether G_d has changed His mind about you? Or, are you concerned about the pressing circumstances of life? He hasn’t, and the circumstances (though real) are hardly overwhelming in light of…
- The Blessing of The Latter Rains Jan 13, 2017 We always make the fatal mistake of thinking that it is what we do that matters, when really what matters is what we let God do to us. God sent the angel to Mary, not to…
- The Tearing Away of The Old Man Dec 18, 2016 “You will have to let me undress you,” says Aslan the Lion… So desperate was Eustace, even his fear of Aslan’s claws was not enough to stop him from laying down flat on his back. Laying…
- Our Own Personal Pearl Harbors Dec 11, 2016 Pride blinds us not only to itself, but to every other sin tucked away in the recesses of our hearts and lives. It causes us to hate correction and reproof. It hides our sin from us,…
- Nothing But Christ And Him Crucified Sep 19, 2016 It costs God nothing, so far as we know, to create nice things: but to convert rebellious wills cost Him crucifixion.~ CS Lewis And I, when I came to you, brothers, did not come proclaiming to…
- The Reality of Our Suffering, And The Great Exchange Aug 4, 2016 Therefore, my dear brother, learn Christ and him crucified. Learn to pray to him an, despairing of yourself, say: “Thou, Lord Jesus, art my righteousness, but I am thy sin. Thou hast taken upon thyself what…
- Our Very Large Salvation Jul 24, 2016 Is the living Person now in heavenly glory really the Object of our hearts? For some time after I knew the Savior I used to think of Him as One who had lived and died on…
- Living Life Beyond The Platitudes: Loving The Lovable May 22, 2016 Suddenly I feel myself transformed and changed; it is joy unspeakable. My mind is exhilarated; I lose the memory of past trials; my intelligence is clarified; my desires are satisfied. I grasp something inwardly as with…
- Living Above The Line May 19, 2016 The way of trust is a movement into obscurity, into the undefined, into ambiguity, not into some predetermined, clearly delineated plan for the future. The next step discloses itself only out of a discernment of God…
- 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…
- After Good Friday: Eternity in A Choice Mar 25, 2016 When you squeeze the Bible hard enough, what drips out is Relationship and Righteousness. Love and choice are components of relationship and the interplay between our lack of righteousness and His willingness to restore the relationship,…
- Married to Another – Forever Feb 6, 2016 To please God… to be a real ingredient in the divine happiness… to be loved by God, not merely pitied, but delighted in as an artist delights in his work or a father in a son-…
- Wholeness: When Form And Function Combine Nov 10, 2015 matters because of what he brought and what he still brings to ordinary human beings, living their ordinary lives and coping daily with their surroundings. He promises wholeness for their lives. In sharing our weaknesses he…
- Going to Ground Aug 25, 2015 Do we feel dry, weary, filled with a sense of failure? In the twinkle of an eye we can relate our mood to Jesus Who one day felt the same way and collapsed exhausted by a…
- Resting in Our New Past in Him Jun 22, 2015 There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates out of the past something new and better.~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) We ourselves…
- Whistling In The Dark Jun 19, 2015 You go whistling in the darkMaking light of it, making light of itAnd I follow with my heartLaughing all the way.~ Susan AshtonWhere shall I go from Your Spirit? Or where shall I flee from Your…
- Joy in The Skill He Gives Jun 18, 2015 In spiritual matters, human reasoning certainly is not in order; other intelligence, other skill and power, are requisite here—something to be granted by God himself and revealed through his Word.~Martin Luther (1483-1546) He who loves purity…
- Salvation’s Flow Apr 27, 2015 The temptation to make our relation to God judicial instead of personal is very strong. Believing for salvation has been reduced to a once-done act that requires no further attention. ~A. W. Tozer Then the angel…
- Growing into The Fullness of The Gospel Mar 8, 2015 When the Spirit illuminates the heart, then a part of the man sees which never saw before; a part of him knows which never knew before, and that with a kind of knowing which the most…
- Jesus: All in All Dec 14, 2014 I repent me of the ignorance wherein I ever said that God made man out of nothing: there is no nothing out of which to make anything; God is all in all, and he made us…
- An Extravagant Paradigm Nov 4, 2014 We can now hear the voice of the One who tore His very Triune Self apart that we might have ears to hear. And this same One has knit us to His very heart with the…
- Warrior Diet – Avoiding Junk Food Sep 9, 2014 Christ is full and sufficient for all his people. He is bread, wine, milk, living waters, to feed them; he is a garment of righteousness to cover and adorn them; a Physician to heal them; a…
- Comprehensively Saved Aug 31, 2014 The nausea of being the thing I was leapt from my throat like sobbing….~Dacia Maraini (1936- )“The Lord has sworn and will not change His mind, ‘You are a priest forever.’” This makes Jesus the guarantor…
- It Is Not About Us May 31, 2014 Comparison and contrast are only viable concepts when two things are finite. Comparing ourselves to G_d is, not only spiritual pride, but mathematical and practical folly.~ Makala Barnabas DoulosAnd behold, a lawyer stood up to put…
- Even If I Ran Away Apr 20, 2014 Our pursuit of God is successful just because he is forever seeking to manifest himself to us. ~A. W. Tozer (1897-1963) And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following…
- Tetelestai! It Is Finished! Apr 18, 2014 “Tetelestai” doesn’t translate simply, we have to make a phrase out of it – “It is finished.” But still some of its power is lost in the translation. In the Greek it implies that something has…
- Faith: Walking The Path Apr 1, 2014 Dark as my path may seem to others, I carry a magic light in my heart. Faith, the spiritual strong searchlight, illumines the way, and although sinister doubts lurk in the shadow, I walk unafraid toward…
- Just Like Jesus Jan 28, 2014 Look in, and see Christ’s chosen saint In triumph wear his Christlike chain; No fear lest he should swerve or faint; His life is Christ, his death is gain.~John Keble (1792-1866)My God, My God, why have…
- The Threefold Manifold Grace of God Jul 17, 2013 The vast majority of people I know who have come into grace have been so set free from sin. Only a few ‘have abused it’ and it’s not like the story is over with them yet…
- The Colossal Gospel Apr 1, 2013 What the world calls virtue, without Christ, is a name and a dream. The foundation of all human excellence must be laid deep in the blood of the Redeemer’s cross and in the power of his…
- His to Give Or Take Feb 21, 2013 Surrender not only what the Lord does to you, but surrender your reaction to what he does.~Madame Jeanne Marie de La Mothe Guyon (1648-1717)For the eyes of the Lord range throughout the earth to strengthen those…
- Awake to Now Jan 29, 2012 In eternity there is indeed something true and sublime. But all these times and places and occasions are now and here. God himself culminates in the present moment and will never be more divine in the…
- Jesus=Life AND Everything Else≠Life Dec 17, 2011 At length, on evening, while engaged in a prayer-meeting, the great deliverance came. I received the full witness of the Spirit that the blood of Jesus had cleansed me from all sin. I felt I was…
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