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“God never clothes men until He has first stripped them, nor does He quicken them by the gospel till first they are slain by the Law. When you meet with persons in whom there is no trace of conviction of sin, you may be quite sure that they have not been wrought upon by the [...]
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I’ve been reading Respectable Sins: Confronting the Sins We Tolerate by Jerry Bridges lately, and the first sin he discusses is that of ungodliness. Bridges begins by pointing out that pride is not the root of all sin, as is often taught. Pride may be the trunk from which all other branches of sin grow, [...]
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This post is great, I wish I had written it. But I didn’t. From Charles Lehmann’s blog, Drowning Myself Whenever I Can: … The only good Christian is a dead one. We have to die to ourselves. We have to take up our cross daily and follow Him. We must daily be drowned in the [...]
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“Sin lives in a costume; that’s why it’s so hard to recognize. The fact that sin looks so good is one of the things that make it so bad. In order for it to do its evil work, it must present itself as something that is anything but evil. Life in a fallen world is [...]
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I know this is a touchy issue in America these days, and a lot of great dialogue has been occurring on both sides of the fence. Rich Schmidt, a local pastor, wrote a post on the topic of homosexuality in which he asks the question, “What are some things that I can be doing, as [...]
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“Sin is a fundamental relationship; it is not wrong doing, it is wrong being, deliberate and emphatic independence of God. The Christian religion bases everything on the positive, radical nature of sin. Other religions deal with sins; the Bible alone deals with sin.” – Oswald Chambers, My Utmost For His Highest
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Today I read a short article on Slashdot about how scientists have figured out how to erase specific memories from mice’s brains. That’s kind of scary to me, because that means they are one day hoping to erase stuff from human’s brains. Of course the psychological community might welcome this as a means to eliminate [...]
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