When someone encounters Jesus and the veil is lifted and the Spirit breathes lives in your heart, you are not the same person. You change. I want to end outlining a few gospel fruits. Or evidence that you have truly met the Christ of the new covenant. The first gospel fruit is freedom. Going back […]
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Evangelist Billy Graham defends Chick-fil-A
As predicted by those in the Reformed circle, liberalism is a slippery slope. First, you remove inerrancy. Then, you stop speaking about gender differences. Now, the battle lines are being drawn around sexuality and what constitutes a “family.” By Richard Allen Greene, CNN (CNN)– Billy Graham, the dean of American evangelists, has once again broken […]
1 Cor 8-14: Love Builds Up (pt2 of 3)
Second, love is self-limiting because we want to be careful not to stumble others. This is an extension of the first point. In order to build someone up, we need to consider how our actions affect others. That involves limiting our freedom. If all we care about is ourselves, then we won’t consider our actions […]
1 Cor 6:12-20 – The Lord for the Body (pt4 of 4)
I close with two biblical motivations for why you should strive to free yourself from all enslavements, whether it is the fourth helping of food or to that first or second glass of wine or the twelfth cup of coffee or lust or laziness or work. First, be motivated to preserve your freedom in Christ […]
The Book of Romans: Under New Management (pt 3 of 3)
Quick recap. 1) If you are saved, you are free. 2) If you are free, you can choose whom to obey. 3) If you choose to obey God, your life will be characterized by constant dying and surrender. At this point, you may be thinking, I understand the gospel. I understand that I have been […]
The Book of Romans: Under New Management (pt 1 of 3)
Rom 8 6 The mind of sinful man is death, but the mind controlled by the Spirit is life and peace; 7 the sinful mind is hostile to God. It does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so. 8 Those controlled by the sinful nature cannot please God. 9 You, however, are […]