Saturday, July 19th, 2008
I've started going through Paul Tripp's Whiter Than Snow. It's a book of 52 short meditations on Psalm 51. Here's a snippet from the first one that I find immensely helpful.
Here’s the point. Before you can ever make a clean and unamended confession of your sin, you have to first ...
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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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