Anyone can keep his joy when he's riding high in the Holy Ghost, not being tried or tempted. But God wants us to keep ourselves in his love at all times—especially in our temptations. The apostle John tells us very simply how we can keep ourselves in God's love: "We have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that […]
Sola Scriptura
The Bible is the sole written divine revelation and alone can bind the conscience of believers absolutely.
Sola Fide
Justification is by faith alone. The merit of Christ imputed to us by faith is the sole ground of our acceptance by God, by which our sins are remitted.
Solus Christus
Christ is the only mediator through whose work we are redeemed.
Sola Gratia
Our salvation rests solely on the work of God’s grace for us and in us.
We find out very quickly when faced with adversity, whether we are following a religious creed or following the person of the Lord Jesus Christ, by how we respond.
Our confidence has to be rightly placed, i.e. in Jesus Himself. Oswald shares that, “Many hundreds who accept creeds but refuse to act on their belief; the consequence is they fling their creeds overboard and ignore the central test of Christianity, viz., Who is Jesus Christ to me?”
If our confidence is placed in following a creed or a tradition, we will turn tail and flee with faltering hearts when we see it [...]
My beloved sister Marge, of whom I wrote about in my last post, has just gone home to the Lord. Her family were all with her and her real life is now beginning…
Take your glory Lord for her life, her testimony and her unwavering faith in you.
Praise you beloved Lord.
2 Corinthians 5:1-9
1 For we know that if our earthly house, this tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. 2 For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven, 3 if [...]
Do you ever find that your Christian walk is frustrating? Are you trying so hard to be a Christian, yet finding yourself instead so confused and flip-flopping from feeling you are on top of it, only to find yourself failing over an over and want to crawl away in guilt or lash out in anger at the seeming futility of trying to make it work or ‘feel real’? You may even be feeling so sick of yourself and feeling a failure and don’t see the point of going on.
I have two articles today that I wish to bring to your attention.
The first is from a very dear brother in the Lord, Tim, who lives in Australia and who has his own blog called Flee The Wrath. I have been so very blessed by this friendship over the past year or so.
Tim has written a really great article on the IGeneration of today’s church and chats about how much of the visible church has become so self / I / Me / Mine centred and the lure of the modern gadgetry and messages of how you can have the [...]
When last did you think about the Lord’s forgiveness? I am not talking about glancing thoughts, I am talking about deep-on-your-knees-in-your-heart thinking. We speak about it so easily, and freely and without really giving it much thought. We all do or have done, at some time or another. I know I certainly have. But have you ever wondered why it is so easy for us to accept this forgiveness?
Forgiveness is so easy for us to accept, because it cost Jesus the agony of the cross of Calvary…
From today’s reading in My Utmost for His Highest.
Even those who claim outright that they are not “emergent,” but who reject the clear and direct teachings of the Gospel and sound doctrine from the Bible, have been corrupted by the inherit postmodern spiritual bankruptcy that has invaded seemingly every part of the visible Church.Dialogue has as its main intent the finding of “common ground” in order to peacefully coexist with those of different mindsets, viewpoints, religion, or “types” of profession of faith, et cetera. This finding of “common ground” is nothing more than compromise.
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