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Transforming Grace for only $2.99
For a limited time offer, my favorite 2011 book Transforming Grace: Living Confidently in God’s Unfailing Love is on sale. I highly recommend this book to everyone. You might also want to get this: No Other gods: Confronting Our Modern Day Idols for free. Again on a limited time offer. To all book lovers out…
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Humility and Confidence at the Same Time
“The Christian gospel is that I am so flawed that Jesus had to die for me, yet I am so loved and valued that Jesus was glad to die for me. This leads to deep humility and deep confidence at the same time. It undermines both swaggering and snivelling. I cannot feel superior to anyone,…
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How to Fight Depression
The main trouble in this whole matter of spiritual depression in a sense is this, that we allow our self to talk to us instead of talking to our self. Am I just trying to be deliberately paradoxical? Far from it. This is the very essence of wisdom in this matter. Have you realized that…
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Both Saint and Sinner
As I continue to study the gospel, it leads me to feel both that I am “one of the worst sinner in the world” and a “new creation in Christ.” To be in constant awe of my sin but constant delight of my loving Savior. Cornelius Plantinga Jr writes: People tend to make two mistakes…
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Be careful when you advise that Jesus is enough
I have learned it the hard way. Somebody comes to me with a problem and my answer is that the problem is that he is not trusting Jesus enough, he is not holding on to Jesus enough. Some I have rebuked harshly because they should know better – Jesus is enough. But I learned something…