Christian, does your life revolve around a healthy set of priorities? When you first wake up in the morning, where does your mind go to? For many of us, if we are being completely honest, our minds are often filled with the cares and worries of this world, rather than a Christ-saturated mentality. However, as […]
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Martyn Lloyd-Jones on the Sermon on the Mount
I have heard many people say, “Surely the Sermon on the Mount teaches that we have our sins forgiven only if we forgive others. Doesn’t our Lord say, ‘but if you do not forgive others their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses’” (Matt. 6:15). Is this true? Is that not law? Where is […]
A Biblical Theology of Holiness
SETTING THE STAGE In the beginning God spoke all things into being with the mere utterance of his voice. There was not a thing that was made apart from His sovereign decree. One creature, man, was the pinnacle of God’s creation. For man was created in the image and likeness of his creator. God gave […]
Gospel-Driven Womahood
Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good, and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may […]
Sheep, Shepherds, and Soteriology
I am pleased to have Edward LaRow writing at Rags for Riches today; enjoy: To preface this “snippet” here is a basic definition of Soteriology. Soteriology is the field of study concerned with outlining the effects of the atoning work of Christ. It derives from the Greek noun “σωτηρία” meaning “salvation”, or “deliverance”. There are two methodological […]