"But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires." Romans 13:14 ESV
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Recently, several Christian friends challenged me to watch a film they deemed culturally important -- a film illustrating several important points of contact between the gospel and mankind's universal quest to find happiness, meaning, and love in life...
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We have replaced the good/evil ethic of yesteryear with a new primary standard of measure: is the thing in question entertaining or boring?
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In our devotion this morning, we see how in God's economy death and salvation work the same way. God has designed the remedy to be just as certain as the curse. It works by the same inevitable, inescapable logic.
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“These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know that you have eternal life.” (1 John 5:13)
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Once again, the blazing glory of God touches the earth. This time, the event horizon is not a bush, but a baby. The heaven of heavens cannot contain Him, but He is wrapped up in the tender womb of a teenage girl.
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“And Mary said to the angel, “How will this be, since I am a virgin?” And the angel answered her, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore the child to be born will be called holy—the Son of God.” "(Luke 1:34–35)
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“Oh, he is so heavenly minded, he is of no earthly use!” the cynic snipes. We have all heard that charge, haven’t we? It’s an easy one to make and a hard one to defend. But is it ever true?
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What costs us nothing to receive, cost God His Son to offer. Surely, we must ask the question, why? Why would God go to such lengths to provide such an easy, such an undemanding way of salvation?
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I love the festive season the feast of Thanksgiving ushers in. Gathering around a table full with family and friends to give thanks to God is both intrinsically right and personally satisfying.
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“And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.” (Hebrews 11:6, ESV)
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Sometimes the doctrine of election can get in the way of experiencing God. How can truth, I hear you ask, get in the way of our relationship with God? An obvious answer is when either we don’t understand a given truth properly, or when we use it at the wrong time to answer the wrong questions.
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One of the perennial dangers facing the Christian is to separate the benefits of the gospel from the Christ who gives them. Thinking like this tends to make the gospel transaction impersonal and, in the worst of cases, legal in nature.
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With Reformation Sunday almost upon us, and our annual remembrance of Luther’s famous protest, nailing 95 theses to the Castle Church door in Wittenburg, we might well ask: was it all necessary?
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Prayer is a conversation that begins with God. We speak to a God who has first spoken to us. The first word is not your responsibility.
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"And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. God saw the people of Israel—and God knew.” (Exodus 2:25, ESV) Does your Calvinism get in the way of your prayers?
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“The Lord your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing.” (Zephaniah 3:17, ESV)
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We all like to believe our own hype, don't we? -- that we are better than we really are. In particular, we cherish the hope that our deeds don't tell the truth about us.
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““Blessed are the Peacemakers, for they shall be called Sons of God. (Matt 5:9)"
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Christianity has always emphasized the mind, our piety has a distinctly intellectual component.
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