Monthly Archives: June 2019

Run to God, fellow disciples…

Run to God fellow disciples! In the face of adversity remember…

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Don’t be discouraged, fellow disciples…

this growth we seek is a long slow process… keep rowing…

(Rowing is from a teaching metaphor that you can read here.)

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Justified…

The M’Cheyne train pulled into Romans 3 this morning and I was reminded that the Law accuses but does not save. Thus, I am condemned. But God works! Jesus came, preached good news, was killed for us, buried and rose from the grave. God has worked…

Good news indeed! The free gift of God!

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Using Scripture as a prelude to prayer…

Creating a list of familiar scriptures that build your faith and slowly reading them each morning after your Bible reading is a helpful prelude to prayer. Here’s one of mine from a list I call the Path:

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Take heart! Be hopeful!

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Lewis on Jesus

He came to this world and became a man in order to spread to other men the kind of life He has—by what I call ‘good infection’. Every Christian is to become a little Christ. The whole purpose of becoming a Christian is simply nothing else.

C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity, Book 4, Ch. 4, final para.

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