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Galatians

How secure is salvation? Part 2

November 17, 2009

One of the most important discussions I have with people has to do with the concern about their salvation. Many people believe that they can lose salvation, or have it taken away, depending on how they live, what sins they may commit, or what good things they never do.
In this post, I’d like simply to [...]

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New Calvinism article

March 12, 2009

TIME magazine has just released an article entitled, “10 Ideas Changing the World Right Now“. Near the top of these interesting “ideas” is #3 – The New Calvinism.
If you’re not familiar with the “old” Calvinism, there are plenty of resources available to you. In a nutshell, John Calvin was one of the leading Reformers of [...]

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Baptism, Part 3

January 24, 2009

We are looking at the biblical teaching of water baptism. So far we have established:

The word “baptism” means “immersion” or “to dip under” (Baptism, Part 1)
The earliest Christians all baptized people by plunging them fully under water(Baptism, Part 2)
Water baptism is a public symbol that a person has new life through Jesus Christ, and immersion [...]

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Listen, Day 28: 2 Corinthians 11-13 & Galatians

October 12, 2008

This is the first time we have spanned chapters from more than one book during our listening. It wasn’t nearly as disruptive as I thought it would be going from 2 Corinthians into Galatians.
Here are our end-of-week stats again. Through today and Galatians we are:

70% of the way through the days (28 of 40)
65% [...]

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God is love

June 17, 2008

One of the books I have been reading for quite some time is J. I. Packer’s classic, Knowing God. It is taking so long because there is so much there. I mean, really, is there any way we could “know God” quickly?
Anyway, I’m in chapter 12, “The Love of God” and found this great nugget [...]

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