Introducing the 3/60 best books on the gospel. A 62-week long series. What does it mean to be spiritually dead? And why is the new birth so precious? The following ten posts (based upon John Piper’s book ) unpack the hard truth that we are dead apart from the new birth… And until we look back at…
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The world so often sees my anger. It so often sees my chronic frustration with contemporary Christian culture and it’s treatment of God’s holiness. It so often sees my tyrannical, self-absorbed bent to highlight the faults of heathens, punks, posers and misfits. Misfits, mind you, like me. But do they ever sense my grief? That quiet but habitual sorrow over…
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Imagine this: A good friend from your past calls you out of the blue and tells you he is no longer a Christian… How do you respond? Shock. Confusion. Worry. Fear. Then perhaps you begin to think about your own salvation… Is it at risk? Could that happen to you? Is what he says true?…
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Part of the 10 Hard Truths about Being Born Again series. This much is clear: The path to new birth is strewn with opposition. Death. Ignorance. Disobedience. Blindness. Bondage. Rage. And as if that wasn’t enough to discourage or depress you, let me add another one… Bondage to Satan. Forget (Just About) Everything You Knew About Satan In , Paul talks about the “snare…
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Christianity is NOT about what Christ did in your life. It’s greater than that. Not long ago philosopher said that our private feelings about God do not belong in the public square. Only appeals to argument that are universal belong. I agree. I sort of agree. Let me explain. In Rorty’s mind, religion is private. Emotive. Internal. Religion is…
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The reason behind my wide-eyed fascination with the story of Jacob…and the growing temptation to deceive that follows it. I’m profoundly intrigued by human nature. Our wicked human nature in particular. This is probably why I’m drawn to tragic literature. Psychological disorders. Aberrant sociology. Unfortunately, this taste bleeds into my Bible reading. Seduced by a Biblical Story…
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Part of the10 Hard Truths about Being Born Again series. Judas the apostate–the betrayer–was an apostle of Jesus Christ… A man hand picked by Jesus to be one of the twelve… Part of the close circle of disciples. A man trusted to be the treasurer. A man who saw Jesus cure the lame. Conquer storms. A man who…
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Part of the 10 Hard Truths about Being Born Againseries. To be a slave to sin is a terrible thing. For instance, said: Sin is a debt, a burden, a thief, a sickness, a leprosy, a plague, a poison, a serpent, a sting. Everything that man hates, sin is. A load of curses and calamities beneath his…
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Part of the 10 Hard Truths about Being Born Againseries. You’ll get no fuss from me: Intellectual discussions deserve appropriate exchanges of argument and counter-argument. All well and good. The only problem is, sin is not an intellectual problem. It’s a spiritual problem. A problem the natural man–dead in sin–sees as foolish: The natural person does…
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Part of the 10 Hard Truths about Being Born Againseries. You whore, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hatred toward God? And don’t you know, if you are a friend with the world, then you are an enemy of God? No. I haven’t gone bonkers. Simply quoting to make a point: The person dead-set…
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