Relating to Sanctification
A Reformed Liturgical DietExpository Preaching under attack
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A Two-Edged False DichotomybalancedWestminster Shorter ...
Vibrant Sanctified LifeGod in his mercies gave us in Christ Jesus a new mind a new set of desires that are beyond what we could imagine before. Paul is urging us on here to that greater immeasurable Christian imagination. Now why do I put it like that?
Lewis put it something like this:Indeed, if we consider the unblushing promises ...
The Mercies of God as the Basis for Sanctification and Paul's UrgingPaul had written to the church at Rome. That church had some life in it in its own right. He was hashing out some of the main points of the Gospel for them and he turns to urge these good Christian people towards their created purpose. In ...
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The revealed truth in the inspired scriptures.
The sacraments.
Prayer
The gracious discipline of God's providence
It must be remembered that while the subject is passive with respect to that divine act of grace whereby he is regenerated, after he is regenerated he cooperates with the Holy Ghost in the work of sanctification. The Holy Ghost gives the grace, and prompts and directs ...
When Paul pens Romans 12:1-2, he has in mind the unspeakable, immeasurable wonder of what is ours in Jesus Christ. Jesus is the man that has already experienced resurrection and brings that life giving purpose from the future into this world here and now.
We who are in Christ, who is himself the image of God in whom the likeness of ...
II. Covenantal FrameworkA. Covenantal Implications in a Sacramental World1. Covenantal: divine, personal condescensionCovenantsacramental world2. Sacramental: physical means of a spiritual communication[1]physical or outward means to communicate spiritually to usB. The Sacramental Nature of the Treesphysical symbolscommunicate a spiritual realityC. Probation of Humanity in the Garden[2]D. Destiny[1][2]The Westminster Theological ...
PrefaceA poem I jotted down today during a break between sessions on a staff retreat. I have been studying Deuteronomy for a sermon series I am preaching at an area church and was overwhelmed at the manifold ways in which my own heart breaks the first commandment to have no other gods before the LORD. I was amazed ...
Shema Yisrael, Adonai Elohenu Adonai ehad (Hear O Israel, the LORD our God, the LORD is alone God). This famous sentence from Deuteronomy 6:4 seems to give us a rubric for understanding the book of Deuteronomy, if not our entire lives as those created by the LORD.J. G. McConville, in his commentary on Deuteronomy, sees Deuteronomy chapters five ...
1â??And now, O Israel, listen to the statutes and the rules that I am teaching you, and do them, that you may live, and go in and take possession of the land that the Lord, the God of your fathers, is giving you. (Deuteronomy 4:1, ESV)
33Did any people ever hear the voice of a god ...
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