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Samuel and Confronting Sin

In the Lord’s providence, we finished up our morning series in James and our evening series in Galatians on this past Sunday. It was quite interesting to me that both sermons finished with exhortations to Christians to be confronting sin in the lives of their brothers and sisters.
As I sat and listened to my friend [...]

God’s Grace in Augustine’s Theology

The following excerpt is taken from the full article, available here.
In order to understand Augustine’s theology of God’s sovereign saving grace, one must first understand Augustine’s view of the will. According to Augustine (and all the ‘catholic’ church after him) the will was free, but only insofar as it would choose what it desired.13 ‘Without [...]

The War Within

No one has understood sin and the sin nature like the Puritans, particularly when it comes to the ongoing necessity (and struggles) of putting that sin nature to death. Here are a few gems from the Soli Deo Gloria republication (Morgan, PA, 1995) of Obadiah Sedgwick’s (1600-1658) The Anatomy of Secret Sins.
Let a man set [...]

What in the World is Wrong with the West? — Part 2

Part 1 of this “mini-series” is here.
It’s almost laughable, really. In a world where so many ethnicities have come together to prove like never before that no two people or cultures are the same, you’d think that we’d be looking for commonalities.
Isn’t it easier to talk to people about things you have in common? Mutual [...]

What in the World is Wrong with the West?

I hear rumours. Rumours that in other places of the world you can broach the topic of spiritual things without half of the audience expressing some kind of visible concern.
Why is it in our culture that it is such a struggle to “get into another person’s kitchen” when it comes to their spiritual life?
When [...]

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