Freedom In Christ
This week on Infuse, you'll hear from a "recovering legalist" as he candidly shares from his own life and gives us practical application for true freedom in Christ. Retired ...
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God does not ask us to meet his requirements on our own. In fact, he knows we can't live humble, holy, obedient lives without him. God makes available to every one of his children an incredible resource to make it possible to live a godly life. That amazing, extravagant provision is called . . . grace.
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The Best Bailout Plan
When times are hard financially and we're near the end of our resources, we naturally look for help. We tap family and friends, and even research all the government help plans available. Every one of those sources is finite; that is, limited in ability to help as many as need help. But there is a source that is unlimited. Almighty God reigns in heaven, owns the cattle on a thousand hills (Psalm 50:10), and declares in Haggai 2:8, "The silver is Mine and the gold is Mine." Logic dictates that we look to God, who is the ...
View Full ArticleChrist: The Only Way to God
On my day off several weeks ago, I went to Starbucks to do some devotional reading. I brought with me a book on spiritual formation. This particular book, by a well known Christian author, was about cultivating the presence of God—kind of a modern version of Brother Lawrence’s Practicing the Presence of God.
The author focused on how God is always closer than we realize and discussed the different pathways by which people access God: intellect, beauty, contemplation, service, etc.
There were many helpful things the author said, and he’d probably be orthodox in his confessional theology ...
"A Double Grace": John Calvin on Justification and Sanctification
John Calvin, the sixteenth-century Reformer of Geneva, is talked about more than he is read. This is unfortunate, because Christian leaders who risk reading through his Institutes of the Christian Religion will discover a treasury of Christ-centered theology precise in exegesis and lyrical in expression.
Calvin may be most helpful in Book III of the Institutes, on “The Way We Receive the Grace of Christ.” Here is a powerful summary statement:
Christ was given to us by God’s generosity, to be grasped and possessed by us in faith. By partaking of him, we principally receive a double grace: namely ...View Full Article