then start over with Noah’s family.“The Lord was grieved that he had made man on the earth and his heart was filled with pain.”He was also grieved about King Saul turning away from him and by Saul’s
One alternative to a disorienting retributive hierarchy … is repentance, offered to the living, not the dead. This is the honest acceptance of one’s own sin that leads to a turning from the destructive habits of assigning greater or lesser guilt to others. The activity of repentance, in tu...
“I am prepared, first because of the goodness and grace of God, who wants me to be saved (2 Peter 3:9). It all started when He brought conviction of sin upon me through the Holy Spirit and led me to confess and turn away from a life of sin. His death on the cross for my s...
On July 17, 2021, my oldest daughter married Jamison Leiss and we gained a son. We love him! And that's my story, by God's grace! All Posts Log in / Sign up "How Can Your Stage of Life Influence Your Habits and Sin Tendencies?" Is there any truth to seasons-of-life sins?
“On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphra’tes, the land of the Ken’ites, the Ken’izzites, the Kad’monites, the Hittites, the Per’izzites, the Reph’aim,...
with man simply receiving what He has accomplished through Christ. Religion puts the burden on the sinner. The gospel places the focus on the Savior. Hell is full of religious people—those who trusted in their good works, their morality, or their church involvement to get them into heaven....
(God) made him who did not know sin to be sin for our sake, in order that we might become the righteousness of God in him.”[1]This essay concentrates mainly on the final portion of 2 Cor 5:21. Margaret Thrall states: “The traditional understanding of ‘becoming God’s righteousness...
(granted a new heart and a new nature) and is freed from his bondage to sinful corruption. From there on out sanctification unfolds as a continuing process by which a believer is made really and personally righteous in his behavior and character as the influence of sin is weakened and the ...
” The rest they project on others. They may consistently, without evidence, accuse others especially the ones they define as enemies, of the “sins” they themselves are guilty of. When encountering an extremist obsessed about some sin or fault in others, I wonder what they themselves are ...
at the end of her time on earth, Mary was taken up—body and soul—into heaven Magnigicat The blessed virgin Mary song of praise to the Lord found in Luke's Gospel Justification the process by which God frees us from sin and sanctifies us ...