Archive for the ‘Theology’ Category
Thursday, November 20th, 2008
Over at the Cru blog, I wrote:
We study hard using the minds God has gifted us with, knowing that ultimately, what we need is not good grades or a good job, but Jesus. When we do well, we know that our hope is not in our own skills and ...
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Thursday, August 14th, 2008
God gives us many good gifts, but it is easy to treasure gift above Giver.
Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the ...
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Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
[Note all the theology packed into verse 2... ]
Verse 1:
Good evening brethren, let's go a special direction
Look back, let's meet a young'n that was born in 87
His parents was so happy, rejoicing at they new blessing
He breathes life, at the same time death without a question
His parents gazed in his ...
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Tuesday, August 12th, 2008
How do you define "love"?
First John 4:9 warns us NOT to try to define it based on ourselves: "not that we have loved God but that he loved us." We do love God and love people, but the Bible says that we can't use our meager loving to define love. ...
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Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
Worth a slow, prayerful read (from here):
As far as any eye could see
There was no green. But every tree
Was cinder black, and all the ground
Was grey with ash. The only sound
Was arid wind, like spirits' ghosts,
Gasping for some living hosts
In which to dwell, as in the days
Of evil men, before ...
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Friday, July 11th, 2008
Often, my flesh thinks it needs 2 things to be happy:
Everyone else to stop sinning in ways that annoy me, inconvenience me, or make me feel like I need to rebuke them or tell them to stop.
Everyone else to focus on making me happy, meeting my needs, fixing my problems.
Simple ...
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Friday, July 11th, 2008
At the core of the Gospel that so many of us affirm is justification by faith: we are justified externally not based on our own merits but based on Christ's merit - he was punished for our sin and he lived the righteous life we could never live.
It's easy for ...
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Saturday, July 5th, 2008
One of the great things that happened at the Cross is our justification. Without justification, we have a two-fold problem: we are sinful, and thus deserving of punishment, and we are unrighteous, and thus not deserving of eternal life. Jesus solves both of these problems... listen to Paul explain it:
For ...
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
See the Christian Hedonistic appeal here?
"If you love those who love you, what benefit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what benefit is that to you? For even sinners do the ...
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008
Right now, we praise God for who He is and what He has done, saving us for eternal life with Him and saving us from eternal torment in Hell.
In heaven, we will praise God for who He is and what He has done, having seen Him in His glory and ...
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