Category: The Gospel
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The Nice Guy That Wants To Enslave You
A few weeks ago I heard audio from an interview at a pastor’s conference where the pastor said that all a person needed to do to be right with God was to fulfill God’s command to love others. Something clicked inside of me. That is the sweet sounding promise of someone who wants to enslave…
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A Time To Reset And Consider The Glorious Story Of Our Salvation As Told In The Prophets
Jesus has come and has suffered the death on the cross that happened so long ago. When He died on the cross and rose from the grave He conquered sin and death. And there will come a day when His conquering will be complete. Everyone will see this Conquering King in all of His glory…
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A Time To Reset And Consider The Glorious Story Of Our Salvation In The Reign Of David
When we begin to ponder what this means it is staggering. Jesus has come and will reign over God’s Kingdom forever. This King has come and made a way for us to be in His Kingdom through His life, death, and resurrection. If we trust in Him we are united with Him and brought into…
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A Time To Reset And Consider The Glorious Story Of Our Salvation In the Exodus And Conquest
The New Heavens and New Earth that believers will live in for eternity is the Promised Land. It is a place completely and totally devoted to the Lord. The enemies conquered were sin and death. The means by which He brings people into this glorious Promised Land is His finished work. The means of His…
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A Time To Reset And Consider The Glorious Story Of Our Salvation In Genesis
One of the things that has really stuck with me this year is the outworking of God’s salvation that culminated in Christ. The story of our salvation goes back much further than Jesus at Gethsemane…or even His birth. It reaches back to the Garden of Eden and the rest of the book of Genesis.
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The Deterioration Of The Soul Signaled By The Deterioration Of Modern Music
Naturalism is dominating the landscape today. As naturalism, which is the belief that there is no supernatural at work in the world, grows the result is a loss of convictions and a loss of heart. The result that we see in music is that it is deteriorating under the weight of the ideology of chance.…
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A Cloud With No Rain – Luther’s Take On A Wrong View Of The Law
The problem with the Law is that it seems to overpromise. As Luther says here, it “promises rain but gives none”. We will oftentimes get in the mindset of working as hard as we can to earn God’s favor by keeping the Law as best we can. We forget that we can’t keep God’s Law…
