Decisionalism expects you to raise yourself through a choice, but Scripture says only Christ raises the dead.
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Paul imagines a time when we are no longer immature children, seeking to show off spiritually, but instead demonstrating the maturity that comes from edifying others.
You might not know it, but every Christian hopes for the day when their faith will die. Really. I promise. Faith’s death is our celebration.
Paul has no interest in a love which does not find real traction in our daily lives.
Justification and regeneration are, therefore, necessarily connected and have profound implications upon the craft of preaching.
Jesus' cross is for dull shepherds and bright magi. It is for the whole world. It is for you.
The gift is God’s and not ours, and the fact that any of us have any role to play at all in the Body of Christ is an amazing grace.
The most counter-cultural action any Christian church could take right now would be to foster healthy and constructive conversations among its members and neighbors across their variety of opinions and perspectives.
Christians do have a hope that those who sleep in death will be awakened and their joy will never end, and we yearn for that day.
Thanksgiving utters a confession of dependence, an acknowledgement of the gift of something not earned or deserved.
This text arguably contains the clearest teaching concerning the bodily resurrection from the dead in the Old Testament.
Trust may risk, but trust produces a sense of assurance letting us rest easy and enjoy peace while it drives us to ventures which may seem dangerous but are possible to do because trust defies the dangers.
God’s promise never to separate us from the love of Jesus means that our security, and our confidence, and our forgiveness—even for our part in past divisions—depends entirely on His faithfulness and not ours.