Letter to the Editor: You have mentioned in multiple places that reading biographies can be a very helpful thing to do if you are a first generation Christian and don’t have many ...
Letters Piled Up Like Autumn Leaves
Not Marbles in a Sack
“We have to remember that regeneration, repentance, faith, justification, and sanctification are not five marbles bonking around in a sack. They are descriptions of what I do, or have done to me. I receive a new heart. I repent. I believe. I have the righteousness of Christ imputed to me. I walk in newness of life. The traditional ordo has limitations, and because of those limitations, it is easy to misrepresent.”
The Auburn Avenue Chronicles Vol. 2, p. 903
What’s Wrong With Human Rights?
Introduction: As I never tire of saying, all of our current cultural difficulties and challenges are the result of a pitched battle over editorial control of the dictionary. Everything comes ...
Gladness and Simplicity of Heart
Acts of the Apostles (6): Sermon Video Introduction: The evildoers running the Sanhedrin were now confronted with a real problem. The man they had unjustly murdered had come back from the dead—His ...
Perhaps Too Much
“You said that we should not say things like ‘faith is obedience’ without qualification because people will grossly misunderstand. That is quite right, which is why in my post I qualified the heck out of my statements. I qualify my head off. They will carve on my tombstone, ‘He qualified a lot.’”
The Auburn Avenue Chronicles Vol. 2, p. 900
A Common Problem
No Rabbinical Pretzels
“You should see obedient faith as the only kind of faith that God gives. It is obedient because it is breathing, just like it was told to . . . I do not have any problem saying that ‘a man is justified by obedience [doing what God says to do, the way He says to do it, and what He says to do is believe on Jesus Christ completely] apart from works of the law [disobediently twisting God’s words into a rabbinical pretzel that allows me to feel quite pleased with myself]’ That is not contradictory at all.”
The Auburn Avenue Chronicles Vol. 2, p. 897
Content Cluster Muster [09-05-24]
Ministry in Boise Area?: I am passing this on on behalf of my friends at King’s Congregation in Boise. The King’s Congregation in Meridian, Idaho is seeking to call a full-time Assistant Pastor. By God’s grace, we have reached capacity at our current location (The Ambrose School) and are in the process of starting a …
The Quality of Faith
“As I use it, obedient faith is a phrase that describes the quality of the faith, not the particular actions of that faith after the fact. For example, I can refer to an obedient child in two ways. The phrase can refer to the disposition of the child, which will result in actions in line with that disposition. But it could also mean a child was obedient because of an action or a series of actions he had performed.”
The Auburn Avenue Chronicles Vol. 2, pp. 896-897
Love Must Be Uneven to Be True
Introduction: In a world filled with leftist levelers, one of the central duties of faithful Christians should be to keep everything as uneven as we can. It should be uneven and still truly loving, ...