1. The Help We Need for Down Days

    book
    08/18/20
    7 mins
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    By Donavon Riley
    Even as children of God, we have down days. That’s just a fact of being sinful and living in an evil world.
    The Help We Need for Down Days

  2. Justification and the Sinner-Saint

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    08/17/20
    13 mins
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    By Wade Johnston
    This is an excerpt adapted from “Let the Bird Fly” written by Wade Johnston (1517 Publishing, 2019).
    Justification and the Sinner-Saint

  3. God, the Preacher and Giving Thanks

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    08/17/20
    8 mins
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    By Steven Paulson
    When you don’t know whom to thank, you start thanking yourself. Praise turns inward. This is a double bondage. When you have only yourself to thank, you end up having only yourself to depend upon.
    God, the Preacher and Giving Thanks

  4. The Giver God

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    08/14/20
    5 mins
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    By Norman Nagel
    As we live as the children of the Father of lights, the giver God, he will keep on pouring out his gifts, and they will overwhelm us more and more.
    The Giver God

  5. God's Mercy Stands Forever

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    07/31/20
    6 mins
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    By Donavon Riley
    We trust God's Word because Jesus never fails us. He is our daily comfort when struggles and afflictions find us.
    God's Mercy Stands Forever

  6. If Only...

    book
    07/28/20
    8 mins
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    By Donavon Riley
    In Christ Jesus, through faith, we’ve received everything we need for our bodies and lives, and life eternal.
    If Only...

  7. The Lost Art of Rest

    book
    07/15/20
    8 mins
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    By Daniel Emery Price
    Lack of effort isn’t the sworn enemy of fruit-bearing. Self-sufficiency is.
    The Lost Art of Rest

  8. What the Radical Reformation Can Teach Us About Assurance

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    07/13/20
    16 mins
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    By Kelsi Klembara
    By basing our assurance on the promises of God, which we not only hope for in the future but live in now, the Christian can finally rest in the comfort that they are both saved and not responsible for their own salvation.
    What the Radical Reformation Can Teach Us About Assurance

  9. Messy Saints

    book
    06/18/20
    12 mins
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    By Erick Sorensen
    Ultimately, you are not your problems. You are not your weaknesses. You are not your sins. You are sanctified. You are the recipient of God’s abundant, forgiving, amazing grace.
    Messy Saints

  10. Project Car Christianity

    book
    05/20/20
    11 mins
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    By Ryan Couch
    Is this Christianity? Is this what the Bible describes as the gospel? Is the Christian life? A partnership with God where we fix up our old man? The simple answer is no.
    Project Car Christianity

  11. Unchristianity: Putting Jesus on the Unemployment Line

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    05/13/20
    10 mins
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    By Chad Bird
    Far from being a Savior, the god of Unchristianity is a coach who whips us into moral shape, inspires us to be better people, serves as our example. The unspoken goal is to be so virtuous and free of sin that we don’t need Jesus anymore. The transaction is complete. Jesus is unemployed.
    Unchristianity: Putting Jesus on the Unemployment Line

  12. A Dangerous World for Sinners

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    05/11/20
    8 mins
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    By Daniel Emery Price
    As we judge and demand payment from one another, we fashion a world not only skeptical of forgiveness, grace, and mercy... but downright opposed to it.
    A Dangerous World for Sinners
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