Can you make a case for God hating sinners in any dispensation? “For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. But God commendeth his love ...
even moment by moment, to place them under Christ’s law of charity. As soon as we observe that our mind or affections are tending in a sinful direction, we immediately mortify such thoughts or affections, giving them no chance of growth within our souls. Its sort of ...
“Whenever my host and I moved about the estates, these white slaves first bent and kissed the hems of our great coats and then stood with bared head in silence until we had passed. No doubt this sort of thing gives the master a grand czar-like feeling, and it is lording it cheaply ...
Here in the scripture, the Pharisees has setup a trap for Jesus where both choices are bad, if Jesus answered that the woman should be stoned, He would, in the eyes of the people, lose something of His reputation for mercy and for being the friend of sinners. If He called for the w...
But now, having died to what bound us, we have been released from the law, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code.2 Corinthians 5:17Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away. Behold, ...
We act as though we had life of our own; as separate minds; as though we could have plans and purposes and interests separate from His. All this, if it were true, would mean that existence is not one and harmonious, but a chaos of competition and strife. It would mean that we are...
The holy martyr of the 20th century, Philoumenos the Cypriot, came from the village of Orounta of the province of Morphou. From a young age he along with his brother Elpidios were apprenticed in the sacred letters of Christ by their grandmother. They mainly studied the lives of the Saint...
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Christian holiness is Christ-centered in two crucial senses: Christ is the pattern of holiness and Christ by His cross makes holiness possible for sinners. In both of these senses the Holy Spirit plays the crucial role, in the life of Christ as well as in the lives of Christians. Firstly,...