Fulfilling God's Law by Walking in the Spirit

Pastor Dan Miller

The God of the Bible is presented without apology as a law-issuing God who expects us to be law-keeping people. God does not ask permission to assert Himself as the arbiter of human ethics (Gen. 2:15-17). He determines for His creatures the standard of right and wrong and we are duty-bound to know His commandments and honor them.

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What Is Your Favorite Minor Prophet

Ed Vasicek

Poll Results

What Is Your Favorite Minor Prophet

Hosea Votes: 8
Joel Votes: 1
Zechariah Votes: 3
Malachi Votes: 1
Amos Votes: 0
Obadiah Votes: 0
Jonah Votes: 2
Micah Votes: 0
Nahum Votes: 0
Habakkuk Votes: 3
Zephaniah Votes: 1
Haggai Votes: 1

Discussion

When is enough, enough?

J Johnson
When do we stop feeling constant guilt, or do we never?

For me, I can be playing a game and I will feel, this is a complete waste of time.

So, I’ll start a sermon and listen to that while I play. That’s not enough, because I’m not paying complete attention.

I may do something else that doesn’t require me to focus, and then listen better.

But I still feel guilty, instead of listening to a man teach the word I should be reading, so I can get more information and understand better.

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Doctrine, Glory of God.

J Johnson
I’m trying to put something together, and I’d appreciate verses.

To give you an idea, one of my chief verses will likely be ‘Whether therefore you eat or drink, or whatsoever you do, do all to the glory of God.’

As an example, if I asked about adultery you may give me verses stating adultery is sinful, what adultery is, what it leads to, what leads to it, or you might tell me that marriage is a picture of christ and the church.

Thanks.

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The Electrum

Kevin T. Bauder

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Those who are beginning to study the debate between Calvinism and Arminianism tend to entertain two related but mistaken assumptions. The first is that the debate involves only two primary positions. The second is that the more extremely one implements either position, the more distant one must be from the other position. The first of these assumptions is simply untrue. The second is true, but only to a point.

Like visible light, positions in the debate between Calvinism and Arminianism form a continuous spectrum. Every Christian who has an opinion on the issues can be located somewhere along that spectrum. The issues that define the positions, however, are not necessarily those that one might expect.

Participants in this debate will be found arguing about divine sovereignty versus human freedom, about the ordo salutis, about the extent of human depravity, about the role of prevenient grace, and about whether election is unconditional, conditional, or corporate. To be sure, all of these questions are important, but they eventually lead to one critical problem. That problem is the definition of divine foreknowledge.

Divine foreknowledge is the hinge upon which all the other debates turn. One’s definition of foreknowledge will determine whether one ends on the Arminian or Calvinistic side of the debate—and everyone who expresses an opinion is on one side or the other.

Arminians see God’s foreknowledge as His foresight. God looks ahead through the corridors of time and sees what free people will choose. For Arminians, divine foreknowledge is essentially reactive.

For their part, Calvinists see God’s foreknowledge as causative. God’s foreknowledge does not passively observe the future, but rather shapes it. God’s foreknowledge makes things happen. According to Calvinists, foreknowledge is not so much God’s foresight as it is His forethought.

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No Man Comes to the Father...

Jim C
Jesus told His disciples, “I am The Way, The Truth, and the Life, no man comes to the Father but through Me”.

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