What Does It Mean to Die “In Peace”?
King Josiah was the godliest of the Israelite kings. “Before him there was no king like him, who turned to the Lord with all his heart and with all his…
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God Enthusiastically For Us On Judgment Day
Someday you will stand before God. What feeling did that statement evoke in you? Due to our innate feeling of sin and of God’s God-ness (or “holiness”), we fear. But…
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How the Most Devout Christians Are Saved
The apostle Paul—with all his devotion, leadership of churches, sufferings for Christ, brilliant theological letters, and missionary work in unreached areas—was saved by the same way as the thief on…
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How to Receive God’s Gifts for God’s Glory
The previous post discussed the two opposite ways we can receive God’s gifts. One one hand, God’s gifts can (ironically) lead us to turn from God, as we cherish the…
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God’s Gifts and Two Paths
When we receive gifts and blessings from God, there are two opposite ways our hearts can go. The gift is the same, but the paths lead to drastically different results.…
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What’s the Best Form of Government?: Why God Didn’t Give the Israelites a Constitutional Republic
Yesterday America celebrated its Independence Day. We honored the day we gained our freedom from the British monarchy, remembering the Declaration of Independence that upheld “Life, Liberty and the pursuit…
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Take Hold & Take Heed: How Can We Have Assurance and Also Believe We Could Fall?
King Solomon’s story makes me tremble. As I write this, in my Bible reading he still hasn’t plunged. He’s doing right, much that is religiously impressive. He has dispositions and…
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Resisting Temptation Is Suffering
As Christians we love Jesus because of who he is and what he’s done for us in the gospel, and then out of that love we seek to obey him…
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Our Father In Heaven, Treasured Be Your Name: Valuing God in The Lord’s Prayer
I recently read a book where the writer replaced “hallowed” in the Lord’s Prayer with “treasured.” “Treasured” was placed in brackets, so he was not saying the original Greek word…
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Is Total Depravity Biblical? What Does Total Depravity Mean?
Total depravity. Many have misunderstood this term (especially since it is not the best term, as we’ll see below), so in this post I’d like to clarify what it means.…
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