By Robert Flynn on
11/27/2009 7:31 AM
The only way to be kept from falling is to grow. (Robert Murray M'Cheyne)
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By Robert Flynn on
11/26/2009 7:04 AM
"The law of gravity tells you what stones do if you drop them; but the Law of Human Nature tells you what human beings ought to do and do not." C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
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By Robert Flynn on
11/25/2009 7:02 AM
Sexual immorality is one of the chief causes of divorce! That is why I continue to bring up the necessity for living the lives of purity to which we are called. It is time for the men of this country to take the hint from Job and make a covenant with our eyes! (Job 31:1)
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By Daniel Cartwright on
11/25/2009 3:56 AM
What's the Connection?
Answer: Certainly, since God knows everything, it would have been possible for God to base His predestination and election of individuals upon His foreknowledge of the future. In fact, that is the exact position that many Christians believe. The problem is that it really is not what the Bible teaches about predestination, election, and foreknowledge. In order to understand why the view that “God made His choice based on merely knowing the future” is not what the Bible teaches, let’s first consider a couple of verses that speak to the reason God elected or predestined people to salvation.
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By Robert Flynn on
11/24/2009 6:59 AM
Temperance is, unfortunately, one of those words that has changed its meaning. It now usually means teetotalism. But in the days when the second Cardinal virtue was christened "Temperance," it meant nothing of the sort. Temperance referred not specially to drink, but to all pleasures; and it meant not abstaining, but going the right length and no further. (C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity)
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By Robert Flynn on
11/23/2009 6:57 AM
Let us say then, leaving unresolved problems behind us, that virtues are in general beneficial characteristics, and indeed ones that a human being needs to have, for his own sake and the sake of his fellows (Philippi Foot, Prof. Emeritus, UCLA, Virtue and Vices).
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By Tony Barnes on
11/21/2009 11:23 AM
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By Robert Flynn on
11/20/2009 7:00 AM
Virtue — Moral goodness; the practice of moral duties and the abstaining from vice, or a conformity of life and conversation to the moral law. (Noah Webster)
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By Robert Flynn on
11/19/2009 7:00 AM
BLISS, n. The highest degree of happiness; blessedness; felicity; used of felicity in general, when of an exalted kind, but appropriately, of heavenly joys. (Noah Webster)
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By Robert Flynn on
11/18/2009 7:00 AM
Neither this belief nor any other will automatically remain alive in the mind. It must be fed. And as a matter of fact, if you examined a hundred people who had lost their faith in Christianity, I wonder how many of them would turn out to have been reasoned out of it by honest argument? Do not most people drift away? (C. S. Lewis, Virtue and Vice)
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By Robert Flynn on
11/17/2009 7:00 AM
"Vice and Virtue to the modern ear convey meanings twisted by our own culture and behavior. The word vice sounds benign, describing fundamentally harmless habits and attitudes, the kinds of things normal people do and feel." C. S. Lewis, Virtue and Vice
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By Robert Flynn on
11/16/2009 7:00 AM
“To love sin is far worse than to commit it, for a man may be suddenly tripped up or commit it through frailty.” Arthur W. Pink, A Fourfold Salvation
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By Daniel Cartwright on
11/14/2009 6:56 AM
We would love to see a survey of professing Christians in which the above question appeared, either as a stand alone question, or with multiple choice answers.
Does these passages give us a clue to the main reason God forgives and saves sinners?
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By Robert Flynn on
11/13/2009 8:25 AM
A general reason, and the foundation of the entire argument: the kingdom of heaven consists not in these outward things, but in the study of righteousness, and peace, and comfort of the Holy Spirit. (Geneva Bible Translation Notes)
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By Robert Flynn on
11/10/2009 1:45 PM
Sometimes we can find encouragement in odd places.
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By Robert Flynn on
11/7/2009 10:04 AM
Our vocation or calling is free, and of grace, even as our predestination is: and therefore there is no reason why either our own unworthiness, or the unworthiness of our ancestors should cause us to think that we are not the elect and chosen of God, if we are called by him, and so embrace through faith the salvation that is offered us. (Geneva Bible Translation Notes)
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By Daniel Cartwright on
11/7/2009 7:41 AM
Romans 8:29-30 is called The Order of Salvation (Ordo Salutis), as well as the Golden Chain of Redemption (terms not specifically in Scripture). Textually, these two verses are Paul's logical explanation of why 'all things work together for those who are called according to His purpose' (Rom 8:28). Let's take a look:
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By Robert Flynn on
11/6/2009 7:32 AM
The man who walks along the path of life lives in the presence of the joy-giving God. (W. Hay Aitken, Thought for the Quiet Hour)
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By Robert Flynn on
11/5/2009 7:50 AM
For faith in the Lord Jesus brings him into the heart; and by his indwelling all his virtues are proved, and an excellence discovered beyond even that which his disciples beheld, when conversant with him upon earth. In short, there is an equality between believers in the present time, and those who lived in the time of the incarnation; for Christ, to a believing soul, is the same to-day that he was yesterday and will be for ever. (Dr. Adam Clarke)
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By Robert Flynn on
11/4/2009 8:46 PM
My brethren, count it all joy - Which is the highest degree of patience, and contains all the rest. (John Wesley)
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By Daniel Cartwright on
11/3/2009 5:53 PM
In addition to the motives of followers of Christ and secular corrborating evidence for the crucifixion and resurrection, we have a third proof, indeed the most compelling and irrefutable - the empty tomb! As in the last two posts, we present only a small amount of the available historical data to support the proof presented.
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By Daniel Cartwright on
11/2/2009 6:14 PM
Sounds like a TV crime show, doesn't it?
Corroborating evidence is evidence that tends to support a proposition that is already supported by some evidence. For example, W, a witness, testifies that she saw X drive his automobile into a green car. Y, another witness, testifies that when he examined X's car later that day he noticed green paint on its fender.
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