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Redeemed
Redemption is the act of God whereby He purchases wayward sinners from the slave market of sin and brings them back into His loving sheepfold. The purchase price was the life of His only begotten Son....
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Secured and Empowered by Grace
Those whom God saves are saved forever. Those whom God saves He empowers to endure in the faith until the end (Mk 13:13). This is the doctrine known as the perseverance of the saints. Sometimes...
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The Long-Suffering of God
Long-suffering is one of the most comforting attributes of God to His children who choose to meditate on it. To know that it is this quality of God that led me to repentance unto salvation in 1984, and...
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Fire – A Poem about God
[I was blessed by the following poem originally posted by Matthias Media. Thanks, Tim Challies, for drawing my attention to it.] We made a fire today: piled branches in a top-heavy heap and watched as...
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Charnock: The Goodness of God Is Most Fully Revealed in Salvation
By purist definition, “no one is good except God alone” (Luke 18:19). As creatures made in His image all mankind is the recipient of His goodness (Mark 5:45). However, it is only believers in Jesus...
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Encountering Obstacles to Loving God
I began my day this morning in my men’s Bible reading group. Four Christian brothers and I reflected on the apostle John’s teaching on the love of God for us and the work of His love in us (1 John...
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The Foundation of Reality
Browsing through my quotation file this morning, I stumbled upon this gem from David Wells’ classic work, No Place for Truth: Whatever Happened to Evangelical Theology? Wells calls the holiness of...
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Son of Adam, Son of God
Yesterday morning, in our worship service, we learned from Luke’s genealogy of Jesus Christ and ended by focusing on the final two designations: son of Adam, son of God. Why is it significant that Luke...
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Forget None of His Benefits
Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, Deliberately remember these truths from Psalm 103. He pardons all your iniquities. He heals all your diseases (if not immediately, He will when He returns). He...
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The Old New Birth
The doctrine of the new birth is an indispensable stone in the foundational structure of biblical salvation. Though it remains popular for many people to claim to be “born again,” the doctrine itself...
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Theological Primer for Counselors: Lordship of Christ
Today, we continue a brief series covering the ten basic categories of theology and relating them to our walk with the Lord and to our personal, one-another ministry that we call ‘counseling.’ We have...
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Theological Primer for Counselors: The Holy Spirit
We continue our brief series covering the ten basic categories of theology and relating them to our walk with the Lord and to our personal, one-another ministry that we call ‘counseling.’ Today, let’s...
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Theological Primer for Counselors: Satan & Demons
We continue our brief series covering the ten basic categories of theology and relating them to our walk with the Lord and to our personal ministry of the Word of God to one another. Today, let’s think...
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Theological Primer for Counselors: Anthropology
We continue our brief series covering the ten basic categories of theology and relating them to our walk with the Lord and to our personal ministry of the Word of God to one another. Today, let’s think...
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Theological Primer for Counselors: Doctrine of Sin
We continue our brief series covering the ten basic categories of theology and relating them to our walk with the Lord and to our personal ministry of the Word of God to one another. Today, let’s think...
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Theological Primer for Counselors: Progressive Sanctification
We continue our brief series covering the ten basic categories of theology and relating them to our walk with the Lord and to our personal ministry of the Word of God to one another. Today, let’s think...
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Theological Primer for Counselors: The Local Church
We continue our brief series covering the ten basic categories of theology and relating them to our walk with the Lord and to our personal ministry of the Word of God to one another. Today, let’s think...
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Theological Primer for Counselors: The Return of Christ
Today, we finish our brief series covering the ten basic categories of theology and relating them to our walk with the Lord and to our personal ministry of the Word of God to one another. Today, let’s...
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The Fatherhood of God: Love
A few weeks ago, I ran a series of posts on the major areas of theology and how they should impact our personal ministry of the Word to one another. Astutely, one regular reader emailed me to inquire...
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Fatherhood of God: Forgiveness
“But You are a God of forgiveness,” the Levites prayed on behalf of the repentant people of God (Nehemiah 9:17). What a marvelous declaration! The spiritual leaders continued to describe their...
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