Westminster Shorter Catechism – Lord’s Day 49 Q & A 104 Q What do we pray for in the fourth petition? A In the fourth petition, which is, Give us this day our daily bread, we pray that of God’s free gift we may receive a competent portion of the good things of this life, …
Ed Welch’s words should not be confined to teenagers. People of all ages can fall into this spiritual trap, and some churches encourage them along the way. “Hello, I am a moralistic therapeutic deist.” That’s the word from a number of evangelical teens. I really liked that phrase when I first read it, though it …
The Christian life is not learning how to cope better. It’s learning to realise you can’t cope through your own resources more and more quickly. Which takes a life-time. From Michael Kelly: Ah, the theological platitudes of Hallmark Christianity. Statements like these are quoted so often that they’re generally regarded as biblical truth: God helps …
Russell Moore makes some points about how people can be orthodox in their belief, but liberal in their practice by denying the dimension of the Gospel life known as forgiveness. All of us are going to have some painfully broken relationships. But they shouldn’t be the norm for a Christian’s life. The most difficult math …
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