Cornelius Plantinga: Moses emerges with God’s Ten Commandments, a set of requirements that people have to fulfill not in order to get rescued by God from slavery, but because they have been rescued. Stated succinctly, the imperative of the Christian…
Be Who You Are: Indicative and Imperative
Feeling like the Christian life is too much? Elyse Fitzpatrick shares a key insight that may help. Elyse Fitzpatrick: So many of us cavalierly gloss over what he has done and zero in on what we’re to do, and that…
Arousing ourselves to death
Kill this or it will kill you. Beat to death with a shovel if you have to as described here. Kill it in any case. Russell Moore writes about how churches should deal with the pornography epidemic: The couple will…
“Not grudging obedience”
One immediately notices the influence of Philippians 4:4-9 in the below verses and perhaps echos of Acts 2:42 and Hebrews 11. John Frame: Grudging obedience is not what he desires of us. It may be better than no obedience at…
Tempted and Tried
A fascinating and helpful discussion between pastor/author/seminary dean Russell Moore and Justin Taylor. I have not yet watched the entire video, dinner calls!, but after the first minute I was hooked. Justin Taylor Interview – Russell Moore, “Tempted and Tried”…
Can I be saved amid continued moral failings?
See also What Scares Me Most as a Pastor HT: Z
I know it’s wrong, but I don’t want to change
This may be why you are feeling down: “Sin darkens the soul . . .”
If you’re depressed, sin may be part of the reason. (But, sin is not the only reason – — see also Spiritual Depression: Its Causes and Cure) John Owen: Sin darkens the soul. It is a cloud, a thick cloud,…
Keep punching, kicking and biting; When you’re teeth are gone, gum it til glory
Trevin Wax: Whatever you may think of the old-time evangelist, Billy Sunday, you’ve got to love this quote about fighting sin: “I’m against sin. I’ll kick it as long as I’ve got a foot, and I’ll fight it as long…
CNN considers the downside of “friends with benefits”
For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality; that each one of you know how to control his own body in holiness and honor, not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles…