Gospel and Law, Part 1
March 2, 2022
The law and the promise play different roles. The law is to convict us of our sins, while the promise of God's grace through faith in Christ is to save us. It is that distinction that must be clear in our minds in order for us to live freely for Christ and His glory.
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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!
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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.
March 1, 2022
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.
February 28, 2022
The "Religion of I" is pervasive in our culture. We are all about what we want and what we're going to get. And while that sounds so attractive, it's such a trap. What you need to do to be who you are really meant to be, is to be transformed and put your eyes on Christ.
February 26, 2022
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.
February 25, 2022
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.
February 24, 2022
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.
February 23, 2022
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.
February 22, 2022
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.
February 21, 2022
The greatest gospel of man that threatens our ability to understand that faith in Christ is what glorifies God...is the gospel of constant busyness. We've got to get beyond that to find what really matters.
February 19, 2022
There is a mystical faith union but it's not just between you and Jesus, it's between you and the cross of Jesus. That makes a big difference.
February 18, 2022
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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!