Alligood is at pains to stress that glorification is not the result of our own efforts any more than sanctification or justification.
05/19/25
The Christ who rescues does not wait for you to be clean. He comes to clean you. He does not need your strength. He brings his own.
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09/18/20
Solomon did not write Ecclesiastes to bum you out. He wrote it to set you free.
09/16/20
Maybe for the first time you can begin to receive creation as a gift, a sheer gift from God’s hands. And who knows what might happen in the power of this grace? All possibilities are open.
09/15/20
Because peace is a gift and not a product, you can’t work your way into it. However—you can receive it by grace.
09/15/20
"Whom shall we fear?" We fear no one. We're not afraid of anything. Instead, we wait for the Lord with good courage. He will strengthen our hearts, as the psalmist writes (Ps 27:1).
09/14/20
Viewing the Bible as literature is an essential and natural way of engaging the text. But there are also ways in which this practice can get lost.
09/11/20
The wisdom of God became man, lived, died, and was raised for the justification of sinners, great and small.
09/11/20
The scope of catechesis from the Reformation was broad and included not only instruction at church but in the home and in schools.
09/10/20
What doesn’t kill you might actually be a cheapened law that leaves wiggle room and space in the door for your old man to stick his foot in and get in on the work of Christ.
09/10/20
This is an excerpt from “Crucifying Religion” written by Donavon Riley (1517 Publishing, 2019).
09/09/20
Jesus isn’t any ordinary leader. In spite of all the ways the leaders of our world may let us down, you can trust Jesus to always lead you well.
09/08/20
Christians have the rare faculty, above all other people on earth, of knowing where to place their care, while others vex and torture themselves and at length must despair.
09/07/20
From the junkyard of my past, I assembled the scrap metal of self-preservation, self-righteousness, and unalloyed selfishness, to weld together a hollow divinity. In its core, I stuffed myself: a god without divinity, offering forgiveness with conditions, to sinners without love.
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