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04
Jul
2009
The Church catholic and Christian Duty  

5 hours ago by Timothy

To see the previous articles of the Belgic Confession and good resources, commentaries, etc., look here. Article 27 – The Catholic or Universal Church We believe and profess one catholic or universal Church, which is a holy congregation and assembly of the true Christian believers, who expect their ...

Water Is Thicker Than Blood - wateristhickerthanblood.wordpress.com

Improve your biblical word power 1: Righteousness  

6 hours ago by Lionel

From the Sola Panel: This post is the first in a series designed to help you to get to know and love some of the important words used in the Bible so that you can be more precise as you seek to know God and talk about him. Comments A couple of initial comments about this series: I’m not writing the ...

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Equality: Recipe for Tyranny  

9 hours ago by UncleRuthless

Erica Carle June 27, 2009 NewsWithViews.com Freedom and enforced equality are irreconcilable opposites. Efforts to force economic and social equality serve only to restrict freedom, thought, intelligence and productive capability. EQUALITY as a goal or dogma is a crippler and a killer. EQUALITY is t ...

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How Can God Justify The Ungodly?  

13 hours ago by Test All Things

God says it is an abomination to justify the wicked, and it is equal to declaring an innocent person guilty (Proverbs 17:15). God also says, “He that saith unto the wicked, Thou art righteous; him shall the people curse, nations shall abhor him:” (Proverbs 24:24) It is not right for us to declare wi ...

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Justification as Creation; Creation as Justification  

16 hours ago by Dave K

I think we have rediscovered in recent years that our salvation is our new creation. We are picking up and emphasising all those NT and Isaianic images of creation when describing our redemption. This is great. Lets celebrate it. However, somehow in the process there seems to be a desire to shift ju ...

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Pleading Faith Rather Than Christ  

22 hours ago by Joshua Lim

Here’s a nice quote from Barth on man’s sanctification. It’s easy to forget that both sanctification and justification consist in our looking away from ourselves and looking outward to Jesus Christ. As soon as our gaze is taken off of Christ and placed on ourselves we will either end up as ‘pharisai ...

reformed blogging. - joshhlim.wordpress.com · Rank: 98,621 · 6 references

03
Jul
2009
Meditation on Justification  

1 day ago by JasonS

So many people live their lives in fear and doubt. They are unsure of their standing with God. They struggle to please Him. They work diligently to gain His approval. They knock themselves out seeking to hear “well done.” The sad thing is that all their labors are in vain. God does not look upon us ...

Pastoral Musings - pastoralmusings.com · 2 references

Deliverance from Death  

1 day ago by Gabe Martini

“Now when He had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each having a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints. And they sang a new song, saying: ‘You are worthy to take the scroll, And to open its seals; F ...

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Grace and the Kingdom  

1 day ago by Marc

It should strike us as odd that the greatest (professing) Christian nations are so immoral. Either Christianity is a sham or those calling themselves Christians are missing something of their calling. Surely the blame for this phenomena lies at the doorsteps of those who preach Easy-Believism where ...

Critical Belief - cawoodm.wordpress.com · 2 references

Quote by N.T. Wright, Bishop of Durham and Leading Scholar of New Testament  

1 day ago by Adam Brown

“Justification declares that all who believe in Jesus Christ belong at the same table, no matter what their cultural or racial differences. One is not justified by faith by believing in justification by faith. One is justified by believing in Jesus.” -N.T. Wright, What Saint Paul Really Said N.T. Wr ...

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