This is what got the wheels cranking in my mind to write that article about Choosing God’s Will: God never coerces us. In one mood we wish He would make us do the thing, and in another mood we wish He would leave us alone. Whenever God’s will is in the ascendant, all compulsion is […]
I don’t know Matt Hall. But my buddy Dave referred me to his article about the Desiring God conference at John Piper‘s church last fall. After reading Matt’s article, I went to the conference website and downloaded John Piper’s first session to my mp3 player and listened to it like 5 times. It was so
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DISCLAIMER! This post no longer accurately reflects my theology. But I am keeping it here for posterity. Of great concern to me is the Arminian notion of free will which I claimed was bestowed on us at salvation, whereas the truth is, my will is still not free, and I am entirely dependent upon the
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…Actually, all the time. “So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who shows mercy.” Romans 9:16 (NKJV) One of the hardest lessons for a Christian–even an old, experienced one–to internalize is the reality of the gospel of Grace: the fact that we can’t make it
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“Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” (Hebrews 11:1, NKJV) It is by faith that God’s purposes are realized (made real) in our lives. If you look at the ‘Hall of Faith’ (Hebrews 11), from Abel to the prophets, you see that it’s faith that creates the
Jacob, the grandson of Abraham and father of the twelve tribes of Israel, journeyed to his uncle’s land in search of a bride in the same way Abraham’s servant was sent to retrieve Rebekah. On his way, he has a dream in which the Lord shows him a ladder between heaven and earth, prophetically symbolizing
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There are some things the Bible says that are hard for us, as finite, fallen human beings, to grasp. One is the concept of eternity (as my friend Kevin was writing about). Another is the concept of infinity. And another is the application of the concept of infinity to our theology. The distance from the
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