The following is taken from page 2033 of The MacArthur Bible Commentary: The Glories of Christ Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think of anything as being from ourselves, but our sufficiency is from God…(2 Cor. 3:5) One of the great tenets of Scripture is the claim that Jesus Christ is completely sufficient […]
December 8, 2010
Music is perhaps the most ingrained form of entertainment in our society. From the moment we entered the world, lullabies were whispered into our ears to sooth us and help us go to sleep. We use music to help us learn, to help us think, to motivate us, to energize us, to calm us, to […]
December 7, 2010
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By Mike Ratliff First indeed I give good grace to my God through Jesus Christ concerning all of you that your faith is broadly declared throughout the whole world. (a private translation of Romans 1:8 from the Greek text) In these broadly apostate days of the visible church the good biblical words such as ‘faith’ […]
December 3, 2010
‘ Their worm does not die And the fire is not quenched.’ – Mark 9:48 We are clearly living in perilous times. With the threat of terrorism and war looming around the globe and economies on the verge of collapse, with the fallen state of the church and the vast push toward global religious […]
December 2, 2010
In part 2 of his series Chosen By God, John MacArthur explains the foreknowledge of God in our election according to 1 Peter 1:1-2, which says, Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, To the pilgrims of the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, 2 elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, […]
November 29, 2010
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John Samson from Effectual Grace addressed two passages of Scripture recently where many get hung up due to not understanding the proper context. These passages are often used to argue against the Doctrines of Grace, but understood correctly, they give strong credence to these biblical truths. The first passage of Scripture is found in 2 […]
November 24, 2010
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I recently began reading Dr. Steven Lawson’s Foundations of Grace: A Long Line of Godly Men, volume 1 of a 5-volume series on the doctrines of grace and the sovereignty of God. In my thirst to gain deeper understanding of the doctrines of grace, I found the premise of Foundations of Grace to be most […]
November 23, 2010
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By Mike Ratliff Go in through the narrow gate; because wide is the gate and broad is the way leading to destruction and many are those going in through it. How narrow the gate and how hard is the way that leads to life and few are the ones finding it! (a personal translation of […]
November 22, 2010
I have been meaning to listen to Dr. Steven Lawson’s message from the 2009 Resolved Conference, “Blessed Purity”, for quite some time now, but just last week finally got around to do so – and I’m so thankful I did. Over the last several months I have had the opportunity to read and listen to […]
November 18, 2010
Does man have the ability to choose God? What is man’s free will? Can man, out of his own volition, choose to respond to God’s call to repentance apart from His sovereign grace? John Samson from the Effectual Grace blog answers these questions and more in his article, Three Views on Man’s Condition. By no […]
December 9, 2010
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