Ok, this is a long one. it makes up for the lack of blogging I have done. You really are going to need to take about 30 minutes to read this and it might make you think really hard. This is by all means a theological essay written from a reformed perspective. If you have never really experienced the grace of Jesus in your life this might be hard to...
Aggressive Grace Part 2
(Continued from yesterday) The wages of sin is indeed death. That is what our sin stores up for us. When we sin we are borrowing from hell while on earth, that is, we are living outside of fellowship with a Holy God. In our sin we have absolutely no fellowship with Holy God. From birth, no, in fact, from conception our souls are fallen and naturally...
Aggressive Grace Part 1
Romans 5:20-21 (MSG) 20-21All that passing laws against sin did was produce more lawbreakers. But sin didn’t, and doesn’t, have a chance in competition with the aggressive forgiveness we call grace. When it’s sin versus grace, grace wins hands down. All sin can do is threaten us with death, and that’s the end of it. Grace, because God is...
Abiding in the vine
Been studying John 15 and am learning a lot. How I want to abide more in Christ. “4 Remain in me, and I will remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me. 5 “I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart...
Thoughts of the morning
It is a hard day. I am in a lot of pain due to getting my tonsils taken out. I have seen many things about myself this week. I am really a much bigger sinner than I ever knew. I have such a complacency in my life toward truth and purpose. I get so caught up in the little things of life that don’t really matter. This week has been good in the sense that I...
The Church is a Family
I am seeing more than ever that the Church of Jesus Christ is indeed a family. It is a family that is under the Lordship of a powerful Father, and a family that will love and even die for each other. On Sunday October 1st, one of our family members here at Trinity Reformed Church went home to be with Dad. Her name was Laura Rieger. A mother, a wife, a friend...