Category Archives: Sin

The Dangers of a Literal Reading of Psalm 139


In Psalm 139, the favorite text of self love, “For you formed my inward parts, You wove me in my mother’s womb; I will give thanks to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made” … You’ll see how interpreting it literally will create problems. For example, this is a text often quoted to condemn abortion. Unfortunately,…
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Why Unbelievers Find Jesus’ Commands Too Extreme and Strenuous to Be Obeyed


   It’s impossible to live like this–impossible, impossible, impossible! That’s what the great Russian writer Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy wrote in his article of 1882 On the Occasion of the Moscow Census…but those words easily sum up all he wrote in the last thirty years of his life. This includes his attack on art, the church, the state…
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Death by Love (Best Gospel Book on the Day of Atonement)


Introducing the 4/60 best books on the gospel. A 62-week long series. is as muscular as Mark Driscoll’s language, sermons and general outlook on life. He is absolutely brutal, but thoroughly biblical. Tiny margins and tiny print over 250 pages equals a fine-tuned treatment of the gospel and the practical implications it has on life. Want…
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Call to the Unconverted (Winner of Most Questions Asked in a Single Gospel Book)


Introducing the 2/60 best books on the gospel. A 62-week long series. Baxter’s is a brutal little book. Not brutal in style like Owen. But brutal in content like Owen. Baxter’s is an unflinching prosecutor of the wicked. A man who approaches their conversion and condemnation like their life depended on it. Which it does. The Quick and…
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