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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08/05/20
Although human reason pretends to understand a great deal about work and word of God. The glory of it is too bright, the longer he beholds it the blinder he becomes.
08/04/20
There is a power that is stronger and mightier than the power of separation in death. And that power is the power of God’s love for you and me.
08/04/20
His word is what strengthens and changes our hearts. The Lord God will bring us victory.
08/03/20
Miracles, for all their wonder and encouragement, rely on the dazzling of our senses to work. Because miracle-faith produces sensory-faith, it is of a poor quality.
08/02/20
God’s goal in all this is that His call to repentance impacts our lives by turning us to find peace and joy in Christ.
07/31/20
We trust God's Word because Jesus never fails us. He is our daily comfort when struggles and afflictions find us.
07/31/20
Your prayers are not what make you acceptable in his sight. You have already been made acceptable through the blood of Christ.
07/29/20
The Gospels function like literary essays, composed with a specific thesis and purpose in mind. Each account of Jesus’s life acts as a treatise to show us something about the person and work of the Savior.
07/29/20
He is not ashamed to call us brothers and sisters, even as we curse and yell at him for not pleasing us with our pettish wishes.
07/28/20
In Christ Jesus, through faith, we’ve received everything we need for our bodies and lives, and life eternal.
07/27/20
These words not only rescue and defend; they also attack.
07/27/20
I rededicated my life as many times as I could when the guilt was unbearable. I would read my Bible more and pray more, yet I still struggled. I knew deep down, I was breaking God’s heart with my failure at being his child.
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