The saying is trustworthy, for: If we have died with him, we will also live with him.
2 Timothy 2:11 (ESV) Continue reading
Battleground
“The idea that this world is a playground instead of a battleground has now been accepted in practice by the vast majority of Christians. . .The ‘worship’ growing out of such a view of life is as far off center as the view itself––a sort of sanctified nightclub without the champagne and the dressed-up drunks.”
Denial of Self
The saying is trustworthy, for: If we have died with him, we will also live with him.
2 Timothy 2:11 (ESV) Continue reading
Death to Sin
The saying is trustworthy, for: If we have died with him, we will also live with him.
2 Timothy 2:11 (ESV) Continue reading
Bent on Saving
“So completely was Jesus bent on saving sinners by the sacrifice of Himself, he created the tree upon which he was to die, and nurtured from infancy the men who were to nail him to the accursed wood.”
Octavius Winslow
100%
“There are many occasions in which love, if it is not absolutely 100% intolerant, at that point ceases to be real love.”
Sinclair Ferguson
Fully Persuaded
“My dear believer, if you feel tormented by sin within you and your holiness feels battered and spotted, be fully persuaded that He who has promised complete salvation is able to do it.”
Charles Spurgeon
In His Death
For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things . . . that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death. Philippians 3:8b, 10 (ESV) Continue reading