OUTLINE: LifeLife is short. Life has context. Without said context, our lives are vapid and we lack the perspective that gives us a sense of purpose. What’s worse than roaming the Earth without a purpose??? We Are Christ’s BrideChrist has gone to prepare a home for His Bride (Jn 14:1-4), the Church (we believers). Those who […]
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OUTLINE: Gal 2:20 [Amplified]I have been crucified with Christ [that is, in Him I have shared His crucifixion]; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body I live by faith [by adhering to, relying on, and completely trusting] in the Son of God,
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I always get a kick out of people who claim to have once been a Christian, but have since decided against it. On paper, this sounds acceptable, but there are two presuppositions that I refuse to accept because they are garbage. First, that being a Christian is akin to partaking in something temporal, like a
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Have you ever heard the phrase, “Ask Jesus into your heart”? Is this biblical? Doesn’t it presuppose that Jesus is sort of just hanging around waiting to be invited into the heart of man? The whole fictitious scene reminds me of a shy kid waiting to be asked to dance at a school function, as
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OUTLINE: The Love of GodGod loves us beyond human comprehension; by giving us His Law, He has provided us with the basis for understanding this love. We find it magnified at the Cross, where our transgressions against His perfect law are met with sacrifice. Jn 4:14“but whoever drinks of the water that I will give
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OUTLINE:Genuine SalvationTo be saved, there must be a transfer of trust to Christ alone in someone’s soul. “Die In Your Sins”If someone refuses to turn to Christ in humility, they remain in their sins, as Christ’s forgiveness and righteousness will not be credited to their account. Jn 8:24, 2Co 5:20-21Personal sins are used to describe the
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OUTLINE: William Booth“The chief danger of the 20th century will be religion without the Holy Spirit, Christianity without Christ, forgiveness without repentance, salvation without regeneration, politics without God, and heaven without hell.” Lk 24:45-48 NASUThen He (Jesus) opened their minds to understand the Scriptures, and He said to them, “Thus it is written, that the
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There are two ways to approach the truth…The Word of God is truth (Psalm 119:160; John 17:17); “And the Word became flesh” (John 1:14). There are two ways to approach the Truth, namely, the Lord Jesus Christ: humbly or arrogantly. In both cases, there is a fixed result. As I wrote in my last blog, Grace, Works, and
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Suppose you are picnicking with your family in a park. It is the last conceivable time you’ll be able to splurge on a day off from work and enjoy a little cheese and wine because you just lost everything you own to a natural disaster. You are broke. Suddenly, a man arrives at your site
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OUTLINE: John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress“God’s grace is the most incredible and insurmountable truth ever to be revealed to the human heart, which is why God has given us His Holy Spirit to superintend the process of more fully revealing the majesty of the work done on our behalf by our Savior.” John Bunyan, The
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