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Posted: April 10, 2013 Filed under: Identity In Christ | Tags: Acceptance, Belief, Exchanged Life, God's love, grace, identity in Christ, Paul, Scripture Leave a comment »Jesus Loves Homosexuals
Posted: March 27, 2013 Filed under: God, God's Sovereignty, God's Will, God's Word, Grace, Jesus, Love, Service, The Gospel, The Holy Spirit, Truth | Tags: gays, God, God's Word, grace, homosexuals, living in sin, Paul, Romans 1, Sin, unrighteousness 6 Comments »EL I Wish All My Readers Were Dead
Posted: March 18, 2013 Filed under: Identity In Christ | Tags: Belief, Christ, Cross, Exchanged Life, God's love, identity in Christ, Paul, Savior, spirit, surrender 12 Comments »No. That’s not a misprint. I wish all of you were dead. WAIT! Before you unsubscribe to my blog in disgust, please keep reading.
EL What Is The Law? Why We Need It
Posted: February 22, 2013 Filed under: Bible Study, Biblical Principals, Exchanged Life, God, God's omnipotence, God's Sovereignty, Grace, Grace / Mercy, Jesus, Life, Love, Obedience, Personal, Relationship With God, Righteousness, Salvation Plan, The Gospel, Truth | Tags: Exchanged Life, Galatians, identity in Christ, law, obedience, Paul, Peace, righteousness, Savior 6 Comments »EL Big Bad Mr. “IF”
Posted: February 20, 2013 Filed under: Biblical Principals, Exchanged Life, God, God's Word, Grace, Grace / Mercy, Identity In Christ, Jesus, Life, Love, The Church, The Gospel, Truth | Tags: Exchanged Life, free gift, Galatians, God's acceptance, Gospel of Christ, grace, law, misconception, Paul, performance based acceptance, works 3 Comments »Understanding Grace
Posted: January 29, 2013 Filed under: God, Grace | Tags: corinthians, God, grace, Paul, Rick Rhoem 4 Comments »Preparing For Your Calling–God’s Blessings
Posted: January 16, 2013 Filed under: God, God's omnipotence, God's Power, God's Will, God's Word, Guest Blogger | Tags: afflictions, blessings, corinthians, desert, Deuteronomy, experience, gifts, God's will, Isaiah, Paul 6 Comments »This is the fifth post in the series
By AmandaBeth, Guest Blogger And Author
Preparing For Your Calling — God’s Blessings
In a large house there are articles not only of gold and silver, but also of wood and clay; some are for noble purposes and some for ignoble. If a man cleanses himself from the latter, he will be an instrument for noble purposes, made holy, useful to the Master and prepared to do any good work.
—2 Timothy 2:20
This is the fifth message in my series on preparing for your calling. Follow this link to read previous posts in this series Read the rest of this entry »
Elephant In The Room
Posted: October 10, 2012 Filed under: God, God's Word, Guest Blogger, Obedience, Righteousness, Truth | Tags: Cambridge University, church, corinthians, Ecclesiastes, elephant, pastors, Paul, truth Leave a comment »Posted October 10th, 2012 by John Ed Mathison
Elephants have always fascinated me.
I recently saw a cartoon which showed a pastor and a deacon standing in front of the congregation. You see a lot of people, but there is a big Read the rest of this entry »
Saint, Not Sinner
Posted: May 6, 2012 Filed under: God | Tags: 1 Corinthians 1:1-2, God's Truth, Gospel, holy, Holy Spirit, Paul, saint, saints, sanctified, set apart, sinners 10 Comments »What usually happens when someone pays you a compliment? See if any of these responses fits you. Read the rest of this entry »
Reflecting His Wisdom
Posted: April 26, 2012 Filed under: God | Tags: corinthians, God's wisdom, Jewish leaders, Paul, religion, religious, wisdom 6 Comments »“For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.” 1 Corinthians 1:18.
When Paul wrote his two letters to the Corinthians, they were blending into the sinful, pagan culture around them. They were so corrupt, in fact, the word “corinthian” became a term outsiders used to describe folks that were Read the rest of this entry »
We Are NOT Sinners Saved By Grace
Posted: April 3, 2012 Filed under: God | Tags: Cross, Easter, Jesus, Paul, saints, sinner, sinner saved by grace, true identity in Christ, witnesss 14 Comments »How many times have you heard someone claim, “I’m a sinner saved by grace”?
That is SO NOT TRUE! It’s unfortunate, but I don’t think people who claim to be sinners saved by grace understand Read the rest of this entry »
How Big Is Your But?
Posted: February 21, 2012 Filed under: God | Tags: but, church, circumstances, Garden of Gathsemene, Habakkuk, Jesus, life, Paul, priorities, Savior, we are changed, where we live 8 Comments »Some buts we hardly notice. Some are the size of an 800-pound gorilla in the room. Others remain the same size no matter what we do. Some buts change Read the rest of this entry »
Santa Claus And Satan
Posted: January 20, 2012 Filed under: God | Tags: being, Christmas, doing, good or bad, John 15:5, Paul, Santa Claus, Satan 17 Comments »At Christmas we sing a song with our small children about Santa Claus coming down the chimney with presents on Christmas Eve. The song warns the kids to watch out, don’t cry and don’t pout. Later in the song we tell these naive little peeps that Santa knows all about them, when they’re asleep, when they’re awake and when they’ve been good or bad.
When we grow up Satan tells us the same thing, doesn’t he? Especially Read the rest of this entry »
What Do You Believe?
Posted: January 3, 2012 Filed under: God | Tags: Adam and Eve, Christ, Galatians, God, Paul, True identity 4 Comments »Preface to the “Who Are You?” BLOG SERIES.
During our “Who Are You” series we’ll challenge you to consider this question a lot: What do you believe?
Will you believe what you think about yourself and God? Or will you believe what God says about Himself and about you?
For instance, one of the verses Read the rest of this entry »
There’s no such thing as a “good” Christian.
Posted: June 21, 2010 Filed under: God | Tags: Almighty God, Ephesians, God, good works, grace, Jesus, obedience, Paul, surrender Leave a comment »I overheard a lady on a commuter van talk about one of her friends who was helping a needy family from her church. The Lady claimed, “She was just trying to be a good Christian.”
Many well-intentioned Christians spend lots of time, energy and resources trying to be good Christians.
The truth of the matter is, however that good Christians just don’t exist. The Bible doesn’t teach that at all. Believing that Christians are somehow good is a lie straight from satan. Evil people with no conscience can do good things and help little old ladies across the street and buy Girl Scout Cookies, give money to the poor and donate to charities. Doing good things for others doesn’t make anyone a good Christian.
