Exposure… of all things hidden from sight… is what we see happening today… as more corruption is brought to light. From college admissions scandals… where wealthy have been committing fraud… to political deception and corruption… where many are being shown to break the law. For the elite seem to have privileges… that those without wealth … More Exposure… (Mark 4:22)
Source: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/428123508298268994/ For you know that you were redeemed from your empty way of life inherited from your fathers, not with perishable things like silver or gold,19 but of Christ, like that of an unblemished and spotless lamb. – – 1 Peter 1:18-19 (CSB) Peter has just finished telling us that God will judge each of us according … More Redeemed with the Precious Blood
by John Owen – March 17th, 2019 Chapter 11 PREPARATORY DIRECTIONS Five Others (Continued) 4. Constantly Long for Deliverance My fourth direction for the mortification of sin is: Being thus affected with your sin, in the next place get a constant longing and breathing after deliverance from the power of it. Suffer not your … More Daily Devotional – Mortification of Sin
Image source: “And the world with its lust is passing away, but the one who does the will of God remains forever.” – – 1 John 2:17 (CSB) Here John finishes up his section on right Christian thinking. Note that our focus should not be on the world with all its vain riches … More Attitudes
by John Owen – March 15th, 2019 Chapter 11 PREPARATORY DIRECTIONS Five Others (Continued) 3. Load Your Conscience with the Guilt of Sin (continued) A; 2). Guilt from gospel light Bring your lust to the gospel, not for relief, but for further conviction of its guilt. Look on Him Whom you have pierced and … More Daily Devotional – Mortification of Sin
For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings. Hebrews 2:10 (KJV) Whom does your eternity rest upon? Yourself or some long dead and returned to dust figure from history? Modern culture would … More Captain of their salvation
by John Owen – March 15th, 2019 Chapter 11 PREPARATORY DIRECTIONS Five Others 3. Load Your Conscience with the Guilt of Sin This is my third direction for the mortification of sin: Load your conscience with the guilt of it. Not only consider that it has guilt but load your conscience with the guilt of … More Daily Devotional – Mortification of Sin
by John Owen – March 14th, 2019 Chapter 10 PREPARATORY DIRECTIONS Clear Sense of Sin (Continued) c. Consider the evils of your sin Consider the evils of your sin. I mean its present evils. Danger concerns what is to come; evil concerns what is present. Some of the many evils that attend an unmortified lust … More Daily Devotional – Mortification of Sin
by John Owen – March 13th, 2019 Chapter 10 PREPARATORY DIRECTIONS Clear Sense of Sin (Continued) b. Consider the danger of your sin (continued) 3). Loss of peace and strength Consider the loss of peace and strength all a man’s days. To have peace with God, to have strength to walk before God, is … More Daily Devotional – Mortification of Sin
JULY 29, 2013 BY JACK WELLMAN I saw this older article today and find it still very relevant. I grew up without a father in the home and speaking from personal experience can say fathers are important for children, especially “good Christian fathers.” – Mike Fathers have always been deemed as important for children but what … More The Importance of Good Christian Fathers
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