Being Spirit-filled is centered upon a continual process of spiritual growth and maturity that can only be found and cultivated by the Spirit of God. By submitting to this process, we glorify the Lord Jesus Christ in word and deed while being conformed to His image through the power of the...
I’ll admit, staying true to Christ and the spread of the Gospel is noteasyin the world of music. The roar of the crowd, the glare of the lights, the worship of talent – it can distract even the most holy among us. It could be a matter of semantics here. It could be the same...
What Does it Mean to Observe and Participate in Lent? In other words, there are numerous ways to approach Lent, some more legalistic than devotional. Still, the origins of Lent seem to be rooted in Christians giving up food or money in order to emulate Christ’s obedience to the Father....
Once salvation has transpired, it is eternal and unchangeable. We believe this because of: (a) the eternal purpose of God toward the objects of His love; (b) His freedom to exercise grace toward the meritless on the ground of the atoning blood of Christ; (c) the very nature of the ...
It is his great concern. As the business of the soldier is to fight, so the business of the Christian is to be like Christ. — Jonathan Edwards 486 Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds — Paul the Apostle 474 Humility does not mean ...
Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God.Berean Literal BibleAnd do not be conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of the mind...
Today we consider 1 John 3.1-3, “See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him. 2 Beloved, we are God’s children now, and what we will be...
However, union is still possible on the filioque issue through the recognition that the formulas “and the Son” and “through the Son” mean the same thing. Thus the Catechism of the Catholic Church states that “This legitimate complementarity [of expressions], provided it does not become rig...
The New Testament teaches thatpredestinationis real. St. Paul says, “Those whom [God] foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the first-born among many brethren. And those whom he predestined he also called; and those whom he cal...
What does it mean? What shall we infer concerning man? Concerning ourselves? In the face of this fact, in the face of the cross and resurrection of Christ, what shall we assert of man except that man, as man and without Christ, is lost. And to be lost does not mean to have gone...