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.
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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.
It is not the words that are really empty. It is men themselves when they speak and hear empty words. It is the I which is emptied in relation to the Thou, one empty subject confronting another.” Karl Barth
There were memorable moments in each other lectures, and while I was somewhat familiar with Horton, it was a delight to hear Nancy Guthrie speak.
A Syntax Guide for Readers of the Greek New Testament reads like the resource it is and will have little value outside of an audience pursuing greater fluency.
Whew ... I'm ready to get the organ fired up & ask the Pentecostals to do some cartwheels in the isles.
For Leithart's vision of a unified church, latent racism and individualism — to a certain extent congregationalism — are unacceptable within the church.
As a minority, I hate racism for obvious reasons. But shifting the focus of a political loss to backlash of progress for people of color is foul and divisive.
Do not despise the little things and remember that there is no quick fix — only long obedience in the same direction
We should be saying, "yes, you are correct. Let us show you why you believe this way." Instead, we are mocking and being critical of perhaps the last workings of common grace in our culture. This should not be so.
Lowering I-35 prepares Austin for future development in a way that modifying the existing concept cannot.
Decades of voting against someone have gotten us into this mess. Vote your conscience, even if that means not voting for the candidate with an L next to his name.
In today’s society this law would apply to shady bank accounting or commercial enterprising by spouses. But alas, we do not have holy and just laws.
This, of course, is not to ignore the truth of the gospel, the reality of sin, or the necessity of repentance. However, it will help us to honor God by honoring His image in all men.
The solution to our hyper-individualism is a commanded community — the church. The greatest community in all of history is found in the Scripture — the church.
But what about giving my ear to music for no other reason than to appreciate it as music? Had I forgotten how to sit and listen and enjoy the thing for its own sake?
But far too often, I encounter the usage of this Scripture for a soap box platform. The church deserves better.
Check if "transparent" people respond well to public criticism or rebuke after posting something public.
The church must state that experience is neither the standard nor irrelevant. We can neither bow to experience nor deny its existence.
"If you have a family, you can reasonably feel you have time for no one else. But that can mean that unless you have a family, you feel you have no one at all." - Ed Shaw