January 2011
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Love or Doctrine?
While in Bible college I heard a number of discussions/arguments over an over. One that I heard on several occasions goes something like this: ‘Too many people focus too much on theology and doctrine and not enough on love’ and of course the vice versa: ‘Too many people focus too much on love and not enough on theology and doctrine.’
so which is it? Love or doctrine?...
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Extremist For Love
Was not Jesus an extremist for love — “Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, pray for them that despitefully use you.” Was not Amos an extremist for justice — “Let justice roll down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.” Was not Paul an extremist for the gospel of Jesus Christ — “I bear in my body the marks of the Lord...
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For Your Name's Sake...
‘For Your name’s sake, O LORD, pardon my guilt for it is great’ -Psalm 25:11
1. Your guilt is great 2. God alone provides pardon (through Christ) 3. The primary purpose for the pardon of sins is not to ease a wrecked conscience, nor is it to provide comfort for the pardoned (though these things are accomplished)… the primary purpose for the pardon of sins is the glory...
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Quite possibly the two greatest words in the...
[2:1] And you were dead in the trespasses and sins [2] in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— [3] among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of...
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Reasons I Loved Passion 2011
I have been blessed by the ministry of Passion ever since my sophomore year of high school. That was the year the Holy Spirit began to convict me of my lukewarm so-called Christianity. 3 formative things happened that year. 1) I read Desiring God by John Piper. 2) I read Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis. 3) I started sneaking into Louie Giglio’s weekly College Bible study in Alpharetta, GA.
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