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The State of the Church

This past Tuesday, I unintentionally delivered something of a state of the church address in the middle of the Men's Bible Study. We took the entire evening to talk about Acts 9:31 where Luke tells us, So the church throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria had peace and was being built up. And walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, it m...

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Voluntary, Unrestrained, and Unmerited

I've often pushed an agenda of meditating on God's grace to us in Christ. I'm not sure that we can do that enough, so I'm going to push that agenda again. Take 10 minutes this week, maybe even today, and reflect on God's grace to you. Marvel at God's grace and pray that he would give you more of it for your good and his glory. In Volume 2 of his Reformed Dogmatics, Herman...

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Justice Smiles and Asks No More

I don't know about you, but sometimes a song will get into my head and then have difficulty getting out. For songs with redeeming content that can be a glorious thing. Of late I've been listening to Daniel Renstrom's rendition of John Newton's wonderful hymn "Let Us Love and Sing and Wonder." You can get a copy here or listen it here, but Daniel's verse 3 (Newton's verse 4...

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Fitted, Unfitted, and Refitted

J.I. Packer once provocatively wrote, "Law-keeping is that life for which we were fitted by nature, unfitted by sin, and refitted by grace" [J.I. Packer, Keeping the 10 Commandments, (Wheaton, IL: Crossway Books, 2007), p.44]. Is that you? Have you been refitted by grace? Apart from God's work of grace, we are sure to fail in keeping God's law. And even having been refitte...

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