I had the pleasure of spending two days listening to Mark Dever and Kevin DeYoung expound and proclaim the gospel over and over as part of the Durban leg of the Rezolution 2013 conference. However the final session was preached by Kevin DeYoung and using Hebrews 12:14 he preached on holiness, without which no one [...]
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Grace: grace is really a different thing altogether. We can define it as “getting something that you don’t deserve.” The man in Matthew 18 did not technically receive grace, all that happened was that his account returned for zero. His debt removed. But grace goes further, it then gives the debtor credit. It not only [...]
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Many Christians use this phrase interchangeably, “Thank you Lord for your grace, You are so merciful to us”. That prayer certainly isn’t wrong, a Christian can certainly lay claim to those exact words, but don’t forget, mercy and grace are not the same thing. Christians understand that God’s grace and mercy are separate aspects of [...]
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This is part 2. You can read part 1 here And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, by cancelling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it [...]
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And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, by cancelling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross. Colossians 2:13-14 This is part one of [...]
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One of the websites that has helped me very much is gracegems.org. They send out a free daily email with a quote, usually of a Puritan. Each quote is an excellent little gem of truth and well worth signing up for. I have collected a large number of these emails and thought I would promote [...]
Read More»One of my favourite preachers is RW Glenn, a preacher from Redeemer Bible Church in Minnesota. I highly recommend his material, especially his lecture series. Over the last few months he has been tweeting about “I know I am not believing the gospel when…” In honour of WordPress new feature for embedding tweets, here is his most recent [...]
Read More»Alas! and did my Saviour bleed And did my Sovereign die? Would He devote that sacred head For such a worm as I? 1 John 4:10 In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
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In this increasingly lengthening series, I have described my testimony about being technically rebaptised; 3 different views about baptism; Five things the bible actually says about baptism; and finally that baptism is reserved for the believer. Now lets look towards the methodology, how should a person be baptised. What does the bible say? First to [...]
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As I recounted previously in “How I was technically rebaptised… or not”, I grew up in, and got saved in a Methodist church. I would be a baby baptiser except for one thing… the bible. Let me explain: (This is point number 5 from my previous post on baptism) 5. Baptism was always reserved for [...]
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