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Re: God can do anything he damn well pleases

Gac — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 00:26:06 -0000

Kinda provocative.

Re: Growing in Grace 140 Characters at a Time

helly ander — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 01:22:55 -0000

It might be worth looking and praying through this list of tweets. The first thing I thought was great, another list of spiritual disciplines that I have to figure out how to do. It might be worth looking and praying through this list of tweet.
Growing Lights

Re: Amaze Me Again

Matthew Siler — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 09:42:47 -0000

thank you, brother, for passing this on. It's beautiful, and it helps me be again amazed of... the Gospel.

Re: Two Great Events

Todd Mogilner — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:54:46 -0000

Welcome to the blog.
I don't post as much as I should, it is about every two weeks. I am working on posting more as I "work out your own salvation with fear and trembling", learning to put God first in my life. I have a long ways to go, thankfully we have a patient God.

Re: Two Great Events

Denita — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:02:36 -0000

I can't believe, all these wonderful posts and no comments?! Well that's gonna change, trust me. Consider yourself subscribed to!

(I'm not sure if you remember me, but you left a comment at Demian's blog many moons back, and I responded to it. It was about his step-father's death and his subsequent marriage. I happened on that old post and your beautiful story about that climbing wall, and promptly smacked myself on the forehead for not coming here earlier!)

So I guess it's "Hello again, Brother! I meant what I said then, and I still mean it now!" :-)

Re: Living by the Gospel

Todd Mogilner — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 22:44:11 -0000

Mathias- I guess my first question to you is any of the above false? What specifically is wrong with the quote? If we believe the gospel, we believe that Christ died for our sins and rose from the dead, then do the promises of the Bible belong to us? Or do we have to earn them? Do we have to have a pure day, week, year and follow all the disciplines perfectly before these promises become ours? Bridges is laying down a foundation of how the gospel and God's grace work hand in hand with personal disciplines. I am certainly not able to live out the disciplines without God's grace. How long can one go in pursuing holiness without grace and without remembering the gospel?

This quote went into my blog because I need reminding that God loves me. I need to remember that God is not waiting for one more mistake, to just kick me out of the kingdom. I need to hear those promises. I need to hear the gospel because day in and day out I am a sinner who gets discouraged and fail and sometimes I just want to give up Christianity and most of time give up life.

Matt here is a review of the book so you can go see what someone else says
http://www.challies.com/archiv...

I went ahead and ordered you a copy of the book because I think it would encourage you.

Re: Living by the Gospel

mateo — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 18:46:22 -0000

does this book just talk about how we need to be disciplined in justifying our sins just so we can live how we want???. I spose I'm playing the D's addvocate, but explain, Todd. What is the joy of the discipline that you learn here and the BALANCE of not continuing in sin???

Re: The Love of God

Mini Craig — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 08:47:04 -0000

These are encouraging thoughts brother. As Spurgeon said, "We were chosen from before the foundations of the world. Everlasting love went with the choice, for it was not a bare act of divine will by which we were set apart, but the divine affections were concerned."

It is humbling and instructive when we meditate on the fact that we did nothing to merit God's love or favor, but that God chose us "according to the purpose of his will" (Eph. 1:5). He did not choose us because we were holy, but to make us holy (Eph 1:4). And God called us as individuals, but made us part of a body, meant to encourage and sharpen and challenge us, and so that we might encourage and sharpen and challenge others. The body of Christ is an amazing thing! It is an organism, but also a family, a family of which you are an indispensible part. And for that I am thankful.

Re: The fearsome power of God's Love!

acmuri — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 10:09:56 -0000

What rips my breath away is that an infinitely holy God deliberately set his unremitting love on a wretch like me.