“I have argued that the key to fighting sin is to battle unbelief and keep the fire of faith in God’s promises red hot. The power of sin is the false promise that it will bring more happiness than holiness will bring. Nobody sins out of duty. Therefore, what breaks the power of sin is […]
Someone else’s thoughts on repentance.
Jesus does point out the significance of the kingdom in saying that it demands repentance and faith. To repent is to turn away from our desire to be independant of God, which is, in effect, allegiance to Satan’s kingdom. Repentance is to turn to God in submission to his kingly rule. […]
I’m a Reformed, Continuationist, Restorationist, ‘Christian Hedonist’ - so that’s 5 points, 5 solas, Ephesians 4 ministries/Ascension gifts, continuing ‘miraculous’ gifts and a great big bucket of joy. Soli Deo Gloria!
I’m now going to take a little while blogging my way through these various statements and terms to explain exactly what I mean by them. […]
“This Jesus whom we worship is truly God and truly man, and will be both God and man forever … the more I think about this the more I am convinced this is the most astounding miracle in the universe.”
- Wayne Grudem, ‘The Person of Christ: God and Man in one unique person.” (TOAM: 05/07/06 […]
Adrian Warnock has written an absolutely stellar post on the Biblical basis for tongues as ‘glossalia‘ (not-human languages) and against cessationism generally. Go and read it.
Repentance, metanoia, is a “change of mind” or “turning around”. But what kind of a turn?
Repentance is not defined by a turn from, rather it is a turn to. For it is not that we manage to stop ourselves from sinning, that we can stare into the pit of darkness and deny our love for […]
“Jesus sets up a kingdom that advances and advances and advances … by freeng from the captive power of sin … by dealing with the heart of the issue.”
“The Gospel in Acts is an absolute statement … a universal declaration that there is a new king.”
- Joel Virgo, “Contemporary Culture and the Kingdom of […]
The Jollyblogger has a really good post on good ol’ Tom Wright and his ideas on the Divinity of Jesus. It is, remarkabley for the blogosphere, well balanced! Neither is he clutching Wright’s coat tails with glee, nor is he screaming that Wright be burnt at the stake and tarring everything and anything near him […]
“What we’ve got is someone radical doing something radical helped by other radicals … and then the panic of God breaks out.”
“You don’t get enemy beaches with concensus and cottonwool”
“There’s no such gift as ership, it’s LEADership.”
“Officers to the rear isn’t in our vocabulary … In wartime you need a great reason to say no.”
- […]
Mark Driscoll has a post containing the Calvary Chapel Statement on the Emergent Church - it makes interesting reading! It seems to codify many of the key concerns various people have been raising about the movement as a whole. It’s the kind of thing that needs to very much be held at the forefront if […]