Balanced Christian teaching should invoke three areas, respecting their relative order, while maintaining the necessity of all three to be active. The three are: what Jesus has done for us and to us; what Jesus enables and empowers us to do; and what we must do as our response to his work for us and …
A reflection on life, human expectation, personal growth, and what matters above all from Jean Williams. An excerpt: God is the author of my story. And he’s a far better author than I could ever be. I wouldn’t have written so much hardship into the recent pages of our life. But as I look back, …
Ray Ortlund writes about the messiness of real church. And the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin Real church is more than a human support group, more than empathy. The sacred blood of Jesus is here. And we bring no sin out into the light which his blood cannot cleanse away: …
This is from an excerpt by a book on Galatians by Daniel Bush and Noel Due. I’ve never heard of Bush, but Due is a longtime favourite. I can’t tell who wrote what, and the quote at the end of the paragraph is by neither. Certainly there is struggle and effort to the Christian life, …
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