…I have written briefly, exhorting, and testifying that this is the true grace of God wherein ye stand. -1 Peter 5:12b. For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men,
Abiding in Him
Seeking the glories of His face, abiding in Him is nothing that you can either earn nor maintain- just accept, and all the more in lieu of our shortcomings and imperfections- this is when grace hyper-abounds toward us. We’re told
Grace and the Straight Gate
Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which
Neither Calvinist nor Arminian
For many years not knowing what an Arminian was, this was my belief. I come from Pentecostal and Charismatic circles, which typically tend to be Arminian. After suffering for years under this school of thought, there was finally a changing
Atonement Theories
This is an ongoing study of mine, but for the purpose of communicating where I’m at with these ideas, what I myself accept or reject as an ‘atonement theory’- (which is an attempt to understand what occurred for us when
Baptized in the Sun
For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it
The Wonderful Word ‘If’
My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for
Default to Faultlessness
And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight: If ye