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Sons And Daughters

March 28, 2010

“The Christian life is the life of sons and daughters; it is not the life of slaves. It is freedom, not bondage. Of course, we are slaves of God, of Christ, and of one another. We belong to God, to Christ, to one another, and we love to serve those to whom [...]

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God’s love: incarnation, initiation, propitiation

March 27, 2010

Notes from last Sunday’s sermon:
Have you merely gone from being a full-time pagan to a part-time dabbler in sin?
Your sin is so great that it took nothing less than the death of God’s Son to pay for it.
If you think that God is a loving grandfather and doesn’t really punish sin, here are some passages [...]

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Losers

March 24, 2010

Feeling like a loser? Or ever felt like a loser? Or think you ever might feel like a loser?
Here’s an article for you. And a quote:
What are you to yourself? worthless? vile? empty?
What is Jesus to you? precious? lovely? all your salvation? all your desire?
What is sin to you? the most hateful thing in [...]

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Without the Gospel

March 23, 2010

Without the gospel everything is useless and vain; without the gospel we are not Christians; without the gospel all riches is poverty, all wisdom folly before God; strength is weakness, and all the justice of man is under the condemnation of God. But by the knowledge of the gospel we are [...]

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the trail of discarded eyeballs

March 22, 2010

This is convicting

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Spurgeon on busyness and time with God

March 19, 2010

“If you are very busy, think and pray all the more, or your work will wear and weary you, and drag you away from God. For your work’s sake, break away from it, and give the soul a breathing time.”
- C.H. Spurgeon, Spurgeon’s Gold

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grace = God’s autonomy

March 18, 2010

Grace is the expression of God’s autonomy,
not the empowerment of man’s autonomy.
-well said by my brother

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Are you minding sin more than the Savior?

March 17, 2010

“The first device that Satan has to keep souls in a sad, doubting, and questioning condition, and so making their life a hell, is by causing them to be still poring and musing upon sin, to mind their sins more than their Savior; yes, so to mind their sins as to forget, yes, to neglect [...]

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I am a prodigal

March 15, 2010

I had not thought of myself as a prodigal. But, truly, I am. Daily I choose my own way and not God’s. And God still claims me as His. What mercy! Though I beg for His chastisement daily, He holds out His grace still.
“We are all* prodigal sons, and not disinherited; we have received our [...]

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life is transient

March 13, 2010

Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit”— yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. [...]

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