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Amnesia
One reason we don’t grow in ordinary, grateful obedience as we should is that we’ve got amnesia; we’ve forgotten that we are cleansed from our sins. In other words, ongoing failure in sanctification (the slow process of change into Christlikeness) is the direct result of failing to remember God’s love for us in the gospel.…
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Randy Alcorn on Tithing
I’ve been getting a lot of questions about tithing and Pastor Randy Alcorn’s article sheds some light to the confusion: I have mixed feelings on tithing. I detest legalism. I certainly don’t want to pour new wine into old wineskins, imposing superseded first covenant restrictions on Christians. However, the fact is that every New Testament…
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Worst Days and Best Days
Your worst days are never so bad that you are beyond the reach of His grace. And your best days are never so good that you are beyond the need of God’s grace. Every day should be a day of relating to God on the basis of His grace alone – Jerry Bridges
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Bankrupt!!!
There is no one righteous, not even one; there is no one who understands, no one who seeks God. All have turned away, they have together become worthless; there is no one who does good, not even one. – Romans 3:10-12 Have you ever met a man who has no money and has declared bankruptcy.…
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Works to Grace
1 Corinthians 15:10 10But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary,(A) I worked harder than any of them,(B) though it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me. Most people get tired of Christianity because they…