Holy Spirit (396)
  1. Galatians 5 isn’t a move beyond Christ to the Christian life. Galatians 5 is the Christian life in Christ.
  2. Rather than calling me to pick burrs off my coat, God’s love strips me of my delusions and cuts to the heart of my disease.
  3. On this episode, pastor and author Jared Wilson brings his exuberance for life and the gospel to bear on the doctrine of the Holy Spirit. Wilson helps us navigate between some of the craziness associated with the "work of the spirit" and the real Gospel hope we find in this doctrine.
  4. But these good works aren’t done under compulsion. They’re done freely. They aren’t done so that God will love us. They’re done because He loves us.
  5. Perhaps if we indulged our Christian freedom around them, they would come to see that “the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking but of righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.
  6. Have you ever received a gift for which you were less than thrilled, but you had to pretend you really liked it so as not to offend the giver?
  7. Only because He is an outsider can he afford the costly fee insiders could never afford no matter how hard they work.
  8. We prefer this to be switched around. We want something to happen in us before anything happens outside of us.
  9. This is the third installment in our special series on Luther’s Heidelberg Disputation. Translation of Theses 5 and 6 by Caleb Keith.
  10. Too often, we equate “repent” as the final warning to stop a particular sin before God ceases to love you and sends you to hell for your evil deeds.
  11. I can pretend for a little bit, but as soon as the phone is put away and it’s just me and my sin, I am fearful about what my walk says about me. I know what I should do, but I can’t quite seem to do it.
  12. No matter which side, it’s easy for all of us to build Bible verses into grenades aimed at obliterating the political other.
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