There is only one life and no time for spiritual mediocrity. No space for playing religious games, no eternal glory to be had from treading water, merely marking time. Faith believes, hopes and trusts.
But I know Christians whose approach to life and faith assumes that God does less than all we ask or imagine, rather than immeasurably more. Woe betide us when we do that. Not believing in God doing the humanly-impossible is the heart of faithlessness.
Read moreGenocide
Every true Christian not only thinks that genocide is indefensible but completely repudiates any charge that we think anything to the contrary. We abhor evil, as do all right-thinking people.
Read moreThe Unquenchable Flame
If you have never read anything about the Reformation I guarantee you will enjoy this book
Read moreTestifying to the Gospel of Grace, Pt.1; Acts 20:17f
I know so little about authentic testifying to the gospel of grace. I hunger for more. Will that be hard? - definitely. Will it be glorious? - I hope so. Will it be worth it? - more than anything else in the whole wide world. Jesus said that if someone wants to gain the world and lose their soul then they are stupid (Honeysett translation), but if they lose the world for his sake then they gain their soul, this is what he is talking about. I want every believer in my congregation to sell their soul for receiving, living in, and then testifying to the gospel of God's grace in Christ. I want you to do so to. So did Paul. Most importantly, so does God.
Read moreTell of What God Has Done
I wonder if the reason we don't tell stories of God working is that we are afraid of slightly superspiritual people, or because we don't want those with no such stories to feel devalued. If the latter, that is pastorally noble, but incorrect. If they never hear that God works for us, then they will never hunger for him to.
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