Some part of us always wants our ability under the law to be just as important (or more) than grace.
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The notion that your goodness is “good enough” to make you right with God is a lie straight from the father of lies himself.
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Applying the pressure of law to ensure you do not to take grace for granted squeezes the life and power out of the gospel.
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Zwingli the Pastor provides an excellent introduction to the Swiss reformer’s life and work, focusing on Zwingli’s philosophy of church reform, biographical details, and mode of exegesis.
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Are you on the receiving end of freedom? Or are you trying to make yourself free?
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We can interpret "be the Church" as either law or gospel.
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There is no AA for legalists. At least not officially. But there ought to be, and it should be called your local church.
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At the Transfiguration, we say farewell to alleluia and hello to the horrific reality of our lost condition.
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In a world—and even a church—full of distractions, thank God for Rod Rosenbladt. He pointed us to Jesus and Jesus alone.
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When we believe in Jesus as the true and better fulfillment of every promise made to Abraham, we, too, are counted as righteous in the same way that he was — by faith.
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The essence of what it means to be a son or daughter of Abraham, an inheritor of the Abrahamic promise, was irrevocably tethered to faith.
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Your justification isn’t a matter of “Jesus plus” anything.