He’s there, haunting Brand New’s music as well, whether they recognize it or not. For he cannot be brought low.
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He’s there, haunting Brand New’s music as well, whether they recognize it or not. For he cannot be brought low.
That man's nature is not inherently corrupt and evil means that regeneration into the image of Christ is a restoration of the nature God gave us.
The music is almost all solemn, majestic, and as I said, cavernous. Not at all out of place in a cathedral or a concert hall.
And then I hit my breaking point. The next time Crockett said to me, “No! You’re a bad person!” I just kissed his head and said, “And that’s why we need grace, Crockett.”
Jesus does not save you just to leave you where you are. Jesus saves you, gives you a new heart, works in your life, comforts and empowers you, and enables you to love your neighbor.
I remember singing my mother to sleep as she lay in that bed exhausted from chemotherapy.
May this be our constant motivation to see the "them" in a way our Savior God would have us see them. Loved. Deeply.
So my question in the midst of talk about Reformed Scholasticism is thus: are we justified by precision alone?
Pertinent to Lutherans and Reformed communities, Cooper helpfully navigates the over extended law-gospel schema regularly depicted in its reductionist form.
It is something of a banality to say one has a love-hate relationship with Twitter, but I do.
This is the last piece you'll have to read from me about my love life, or lack thereof.
But every time I see or drink a Lost Gold IPA, I laugh a little. I tear up a little. And I remember those two days.
The more I listen, the more I want to listen. And, currently, that is a musical oddity for me, which is why I cannot say enough about why everyone should buy this album and rock it endlessly.
There are many areas in which Reformed believers can learn from Luther and the passive/active two kinds of righteousness presented by Cooper.
erhaps, the biggest resonance of Luther's union with Christ language is how to changes our reflection on Christian obedience versus the "civic righteousness" of the non-believer.
His grace has crafted something new, something better, something good. And that something is you, in Jesus. And this new creation is not left without a purpose
There is a very real shift in our identity, a shift in who we are as people when God saves us through Christ. We are not what we once were. We are not who we once were. And that means something for our lives.
I hadn’t even stepped foot on the plowed diamond field, yet I knew no shimmering gem awaited my hand.
I had no expectations going into it but wound up feeling like I will be listening to this record for the rest of my life.