Tag: Christainity
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Hear the Music, Don’t Learn the Steps
Part 5 in a 10 part series. View series intro and index. If you are anything like me (let’s hope not), your bent is to read the Bible to get information. You want to mine the peaks and valleys of Scripture for intellectual ascent, to out-wit, out-smart, or out-argue someone else in a theological debate. You want…
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What Does Justification Do? (Part 1)
Part 2 in an 8 part series. View series intro and index. Justification provides the forgiveness of sins The first thing that justification does is forgives sin. We cannot be declared righteous or given Christ’s righteousness until our sin has been pardoned. Paul says in Romans 3 that everyone has sinned and fallen short of God’s glory…
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You Are Weird to God
When you hear the word “alienated,” what comes to mind? You probably think words like of “strange,” “foreign,” or “different.” How about “weird”? If you look up “weird” in the dictionary, you might find something like this: “involving or suggesting the supernatural; unearthly or uncanny: a weird sound; weird lights.” Interesting. That sounds like they…
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Sovereignty and Happiness
If God is sovereign, then it follows that he is happy. Sovereignty implies dominion and autonomy, and a sovereign God accomplishes his will because he ordained everything to happen. Such a God is always happy because everything he ordained happened, and he would never do anything to displease himself. If God is subjugated, then it…
JAMES PRUCH 