Gospel and Covenant, Part 2
September 11, 2019
So many Christians spend their lives living as if it is works and a good moral effort that will get them to heaven.That is not how God has designed His salvation plan. We need to defeat the legalism that kills our faith.
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It's a frequent temptation for all of us to look at our faith as something that we need to make happen. In many ways, that attitude toward self-generated faith is what the world thinks we mean by faith. Actually, God is behind it all.
September 10, 2019
Adding something to Jesus detracts from Jesus because then he is no longer enough. Jesus becomes merely a stage in my spiritual development rather than my destination.
September 9, 2019
We excuse our own genuine lack of commitment to God by accusing others of a lack of commitment. Pastor Josh teaches about the excuses we use to avoid doing business with God.
September 8, 2019
The story of Abraham is a powerful way of thinking about this blessing of righteousness --not wealth--that comes to all of us who believe. His material wealth was not the fulfillment of the promised blessing of God.
September 6, 2019
Some of us have had good fathers and some have not. But the father figure is important; we all need to feel that we fit into a spiritual lineage.
September 5, 2019
We do need to work hard to grow as Christians, but that is not the same as supplementing Christ with "religiocity". Paul points out some things that we don't need to be doing.
September 4, 2019
Because our culture assumes that religion is a matter of private devotion and that what we can know about God is precious little because he's a mysterious being, people tend to default to the view that God is a matter of opinion.
September 3, 2019
There is a mystical faith union but it's not just between you and Jesus, it's between you and the cross of Jesus.
September 2, 2019
If you're in Christ, there is no condemnation, but you do need to embrace conviction of sin. The difference between condemnation and conviction is that conviction always leads to light and hope because Christ is sufficient even for that sin.
September 1, 2019
Paul tells the Galatians that the reason they have lost their joy and almost lost their faith is because they've lost sight of the cross.
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One group says the Bible is a book about love, mercy, and kindness. They think of the story of the Good Samaritan and of Jesus telling us to turn the other cheek. So how could anyone think the Bible prevents a tolerant society? But for another group, the Bible is far from tolerant. There’s the conquest of Canaan. There’s Elijah killing Baal’s prophets by his own hand. And in the New Testament, Jesus talks often about hell. That’s not tolerant. What then can we say in answer to this question? Get your free resource and learn more today!