The story of the #Bible is so simple but so relevant. 1. People are lost. 2. God is Love. 3.Jesus is Lord. Out guilt is met by God’s goodness and the Lord’s grace. Too good to be true...but it is!
If Jesus is alive, the Bible is true, Heaven is real, the Holy Spirit is active and God is love, how can a true Christian not be loving to friend and foe, thankful at all times and faithful in bad times, joyful in prosperity and peaceful in adversity? Lord may this be true of me!
@bigvox@scottdawson I saw that response coming like a fastball straight down the middle haha .Consequences of listening to the Wednesday bible study for the past two years...
Who's ready for some football? Ok...don't start thinking I worship football...I know...football is a great game, but a lousy god....but it IS a great game! #PutItInPerspective
“YOU CAN MAKE THEM QUIT! B/C THEY ALL COME OUT OF THE LOCKER ROOM JUMPIN’ AROUND IN WARMUPS, ‘I CAN BLOCK DERRICK BROWN, I CAN BLOCK DERRICK BROWN.’ NO, WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW IS AFTER THE THIRD PLAY IS, ‘WHAT IN THE HELL WAS I THINKING?”
vid: @Sooz4AU
Although you and I are mutable and prone to failure, we have been saved by an unchanging God, who has accomplished a perfect work of redemption on our behalf, and who is steadfast in all His promises toward us. There is only one hero in the gospel story — "But God...." (Eph.2:4)
God does not love us because we are serviceable; He loves us simply because He loves us. This is the only kind of love we can ever be secure in, of course, since it is the only kind of love we cannot possibly lose. This is grace.
At the root of each and every sin, and each and every problem, is unbelief and a rejection of the gospel. People who are immoral and people who are moral both reject the gospel when they try to be their own savior.
If the terrifying realty of your sin has left you without hope, look to Calvary. It is for this very thing that Christ died and rose again. Remember, there is only one Hero in the gospel story. Not you, not me, but Him!
Arminianism, were it true, would leave room for boasting. Thankfully, however, few Arminians boast. Calvinism, because it is true, because we really are depraved, means we, deniers of boasting, boast. Pride infects us all. Grace redeems us all.
Attempting to be a Christian apart from the church is like a little child trying to grow up without food and water or the loving care of a mother and father.
To put it simply, the Christian now loves the God he once hated and hates the self he once loved; he now desires the righteousness he once spurned and despises the unrighteousness of which he once boasted.