I might as well publish these thoughts while I’m here meditating on God’s Word. Micah has stirred me up to continuing this process by reminding me of salts preservative quality. This has led me to think about faith, grace, and testing through persecution as having preserving effects as well. Not only for the believer but [...]
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persecution = preservation for the Christian
Posted: June 28, 2008 in Bible, culture, faith, jesus, missional, theology, witnessing, worshipTags: faith, light, missional, preservation, radical, salt, self sacrifice
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dispensationalism: why I have begun to disagree
Posted: June 28, 2008 in Bible, Calvinism, eschatology, jesus, literature, providence, reformed, theologyTags: dispensationalism, end times, eschatology, reformed
I have been taught dispensationalism for most of my life growing up in Southern Baptist Churches but more recently have been finding biblical texts that seem to contradict what I have been taught. This is an excerpt from a publication that I found on another message board. I have taken a few of the points [...]
The importance of pondering the wrath of God
Posted: June 1, 2008 in Bible, funny, jesus, theology, worshipSin. Everyone of us at some point in our life have loved to do it. We ignore God and His providence and His promises and His love shown to us through His law and have done life our way. We want our best life now when He has promised us our best life then (in [...]