In Christ Alone

"Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God." (1 Corinthians 6:9-11 ESV)


If God were to expose the innermost thoughts of my heart I would be exposed as guilty of many of these sins daily. Some of these sins make their way out of my heart and into practice. The idolatry thing alone would be enough to sink my ship. If this be true, and it is, on what grounds do I inherit the kingdom of God? Paul said explicitly that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom. If it were up to me to refrain from these sins I would be in a lot of trouble. However, I stand solidly on the grounds that Jesus was completely innocent of committing any sin, and His righteousness has been imputed to me. It is for that reason alone I am justified in God's eyes. It is His perfection that qualifies me as a joint heir with Christ and not my ability to refrain from sinful behavior. I am justified by faith in Christ's finished work alone. Praise God and the Lamb forever!!

Chris Connally
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Trust God's Word NO MATTER WHAT!

"I think the greatest weakness in the church today is that almost no
one believes that God invests His power in the Bible. Everyone is
looking for power in program, in a methodology, in a technique, in
anything and everything but that in which God has placed it- His Word.
He alone has the power to change lives for eternity, and that power is
focused on the Scriptures" -R.C. Sproul

Sola Scriptura - Soli Deo Gloria

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Prayer then Preaching

"The sermons of the Reformers and Puritans are not that different than ours. We’re saying essentially the same thing. What was so different was their prayer lives. My aim is that we would truly pray in our prayers."

"True prayer is putting ourselves into our petitions, crying out to God Almighty and praying in our prayers. The problem is not that we don’t pray, but rather that seldom we truly prayerfully pray in our prayers. What is this praying? The primary exercise of faith. Private prayerful praying is the work of the triune God. It has more to do with God than with us. It is Heaven’s greatest weapon that we have at our disposal as a minister of the gospel. This kind of praying is supposed to be half of our vocation—giving ourselves to the Word and to prayer."

Joel Beeke (Desiring God 2011 Pastors conference)

Quote Lifted from Kevin DeYoung's blog

The devil’s sage advice to his apprentice in C.S. Lewis’ The Screwtape Letters:

What we want, if men become Christians at all, is to keep them in the state of what I call ‘Christianity And.’ You know–Christianity and the Crisis, Christianity and the New Psychology, Christianity and the New Order, Christianity and Faith Healing, Christianity and Psychical Research, Christianity and Vegetarianism, Christianity and Spelling Reform…Substitute for the faith itself some Fashion with a Christian colouring. Work on their horror of the Same Old Thing. The horror of the Same Old Thing is one of the most valuable passions we have produced in the human heart–an endless source of heresies in religion, folly in counsel, infidelity in marriage, an inconstancy in friendship. (quoted by Michael Horton in Always Reformed: Essays in Honor of Robert Godfrey)

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A Great Quote From Richard Baxter

“Unpardoned sin will never let us rest or prosper, though we be at ever so much care and cost to cover it: our sin will surely find us out, though we find not it out. The work of confession is purposely to make known our sin, and freely to take the shame to ourselves; and if ‘he that confesseth and forsaketh his sins shall have mercy,’ no wonder if ‘he that covereth them shall not prosper.’ If we be so tender of ourselves, and so loath to confess, God will be the less tender of us, and he will indite our confessions for us. He will either force our consciences to confession, or his judgments shall proclaim our iniquities to the world.” Richard Baxter The Reformed Pastor

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Come Home

Come to Christ, He is Mighty to Save - Paul Washer from I'll Be Honest on Vimeo.

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Christianity is.........

American style Christianity can't be what Paul had in mind when He wrote:

"Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith— that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, that by any means possible I may attain the resurrection from the dead." (Philippians 3:8-11 ESV)

Can it?


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