Jesus experienced life with human emotions. In addition to knowing our need for salvation, Jesus fully experienced everything that we need to be saved from. From Winn Collier. Jesus did not come to help us manoeuvre around the our brokenness; Jesus came to enter our brokenness with us. The gospel is not a therapeutic system …
Every Christian has experienced God’s gracious power at work in their lives. As disciples we consistently evaluate situations as if we’re supposed to navigate them in our own power. From Winn Collier who is reflecting on Jesus’ interactions with the disciples as he intends to feed a large crowd (again). …with the dilemma out in …
A meditation on faith by Ron Block. Faith isn’t something we drum up or fight for. We don’t pull up our faith-bootstraps and try to believe. Faith is more than intellectual assent to ideas about God; it is the outcome of any real moment of intimate contact with him. When we are fearful or unbelieving, …
Sinclair Ferguson considers faith and repentance. Because they can be experienced differently and distinctly we might think they are separate. But that is unhelpful. From Ferguson: In grammatical terms, then, the words repent and believe both function as a synecdoche — the figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole. Thus, …
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