Click!! The sound of the door locking behind me sounds like a shotgun going off, and rattles through my body. It’s an odd feeling being locked in a room of around 20 inmates, with no guards present. These men are all in jail for various reasons: drugs, robbery, sexual assault, murder, etc. But there I […]
He who often thinks of God will have a larger mind than the man who simply plods around this narrow globe. The most excellent study for expanding the soul than the science of Christ, and him crusfied, and the knowledge of the godhead in the glorious trinity.
I recently came across the following quote by John Piper that made me think about sin and the freedom Christian’s have in Christ from guilt and shame. Piper writes: Sin creates a blinding guilt that makes a person feel hopeless and despairing that they could ever be forgiven and included among the righteous. This is […]
In the last part of this series, I argued that the Apostle Paul was describing for his readers what a life controlled by the flesh looks like. He explained why the desires of the flesh and the desires of the Spirit are against each other, and he warned them about living lives characterized by works […]
“God is most glorified in us, when we are most satisfied in him.” This most famous quote from John Piper has served the church well over the past thirty years. It has propelled people into missions, giving them the desire to see the nations declare the glory of God. It has reoriented people’s theology, causing […]
Relevant Magazine has an excellent article discussing the relationship between faith and reason in apologetics. The article concludes: So while apologetics affirms that faith is more than reason, involving trust and relationship, it is not less than reason. Apologetics does not surrender faith on the altar of cultural reasoning or relevance. Rather, it seeks to […]
We saw in the first part of this series that in this passage the Apostle Paul is seeking to teach believers what it means to walk in the Spirit. He accomplishes this task by first showing them what a life lived in the flesh looks like. In verse 16 Paul tells his readers that if […]
Here is a good reminder for all of us from Ray Ortlund. Trusting God by Ray Ortlund
In Galatians 5:16-26 the Apostle Paul is teaching us what it means to walk in the Spirit. In verse 1 he writes, “But I say, walk by the Spirit and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh (ESV).” Paul is contrasting in this passage what a life lived by the Spirit looks like […]
Kathy Litton’s life radically changed on July 25, 2002 when her husband was tragically killed in a car accident. In this article she explains how this event altered her worship and how she was able to worship in the midst of this tragic event. She concludes: