Interesting items from the Interwebs, from all over the world.
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Quote from the Gospel Coalition
"Don't get cute at Christmas. Your people need regular meat and potatoes, not the newest eggnog recipe. Stay away from props and video clips. Put to death the Star Wars tie-in you've been really excited about. Don't worry about preaching the same truths and the same themes. They don't remember last year's sermon anyway. Go ahead and tell them the old, old story one more time."
- The Gospel Coalition
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Quote from Tim Challies
" I encourage us all to exercise discernment, even when reading Christian books, and perhaps especially when reading Christian books. You know just because it's published by a Christian publisher, just because it's sold in a Christian book store, that does not mean that it's good or that it's reliable or that it's consistent with scripture.
Christian, we need to know the Bible. We need to so know the truth of the Bible. We need to carefully evaluate every book we read, in light of its perfect and unchanging truths. A book is good only to the degree that it aligns with the perfect, infallible, inerrant, sufficient Word of God, the Bible.
- Tim Challies
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From Wire newsletter
A Pernicious Loop
. . . he himself gives to all mankind
life and breath and everything—Acts 17:25
There are few more powerful (and potentially harmful) forces at work in the lives of men than the When/Then lie. It goes like this: when we get that job, that promotion, that house, that "number" in the bank account . . . then everything'll be great. Things will settle down then. We'll have peace and joy and security then. The lie wouldn't be so bad, but for the behavior we rationalize and excuse with it, hoping it is true: neglecting people we're meant to love; disregarding people we're meant to serve; ignoring people we're meant to rescue; treating badly and taking advantage of people we are meant to encourage and support.
Our enemy, the "father of lies" (John 8:44), created a clever one with the When/Then lie—it's an infinite loop. You see, whatever "something" follows When is never as good as we think it'll be. And so, any given "something," when it's achieved, is quickly replaced by a bigger, better one.
There's freedom available to us, though—freedom to enjoy the abundant blessings we've already been given; freedom to access true peace and true joy and true security, right now—if we're willing to reject the lie and, instead, embrace the promises of our King, Jesus Christ. He's promised that our Father God will provide everything we need in any given moment (Matthew 6:25-34). His provision just might not look how we think or hope it will (Isaiah 55:8).
Okay, so what do we do?
Write down the When/Then lies you've believed. Be specific with both the Whens and the Thens. Now, with brothers in community or directly to God, pray against any power they've held over your life. Then, pray in the opposite: declare your gratitude for how God's provided for you already—and for how he always will.
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Quotes from Scott Sauls
"What's on the inside – whatever has always been there – will come out under pressure."
"When God gives us success for a time, when he chooses to put the wind at our backs – by all means we should enjoy the experience. But we musn't hang our hats on it . . . because earthly success, in all its forms, comes to us as a gift from God and is also fleeting."
- Scott Sauls
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Psalm 8:10 -:ESV
"And those who know your name put their trust in you,
for you, O Lord, have not forsaken those who seek you."
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Faith Statement
Complentarianst - God designed man and woman for specific roles to compliment and to be a help mate to each other
Reformed saved by grace alone, not by any works of man
Cessationist- the gifts of tounges ceased after the Apostlistic age bended
There are no more Apostles alive.
5 points of Calvinism
Total Depravity
Unconditional Love
Limited Atonement
Irresistible Grace
Perseverance of the Saints
Monergism - We do not add anything to our salvation, but it is all God's work. As opposed to synergism, which states that we need to cooperate with God in our salvation.
Natural man in his sinful state is depraved and corrupted completely. Every word, deed, thought, and motive is tainted by sin.
Christ's substitutionary and complete atoning death and resurrection did not merely make possible my salvation, but accomplished it. Thus "It is finished."
Infralapsarian
Premillennialism
Five Solas
Scripture Alone - The only Foundation
Christ Alone - The Only Mediator
Grace Alone - The Only Method
Faith Alone - The Only Means
Glory to God Alone - The only Ambition
Believe in the story of Creation as written in Genesis 1
Believe in innerancy of Scripture.
Belief in "traditional" marriage between one man and one woman for life, as defined in the Bible
Believe in Doctrine of Imputation, in which Adam's sin was imputed to mankind
The elect's sin was imputed to Christ on the cross, and Jesus' righteousness was imputed to the elect, which is called Imputed Righteousness.
Reject: Synergism - in which we in any way have to cooperate with God for our salvation. It shows Christ's substitutionary atonement was not enough on it's own.
Reject: Armenianism - in which man can resist the will of God and has free will to usurp God's infinite will, thus making man more powerful than God. It is saying Christ's death and resurrection made salvation possible but not complete.
Reject: Pelagianism - the belief that original sin did not taint human nature, and that mortal will is still capable of choosing God on his own, without special divine aid.
God promises you
"God promises you and me his presence. I don't always feel his presence. But God's promises do NOT depend upon my feelings: they rest upon his integrity. I may fail in my promises, but He does not break his."
- R C Sproul - Enjoying God