Love and the Inhumanity of Same-Sex Marriage – The Gospel Coalition
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LGBT Movement: Part 1
Earnestly Contend for the Faith
“Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that you should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints” (Jude 1:3). Why do we defend the institute of marriage? We defend because it is an institute, anchored in the creation ordinance. A creation ordinance that prescribes only a monogamous relationship between one man and one woman. We defend it also because for Christians marriage is a sacred institute that was considered a mystery and was later revealed in the NT as a reflection or living drama of the Gospel. Paul states his reason concerning his discourse on the relationship between the husband and the wife. He refers to it as a mystery. A mystery because it is in reference to Christ. In…
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How Did We Get Here? Desensitize, Normalize, Demonize, Legalize, (Victimize)! | The Cripplegate
How Did We Get Here? Desensitize, Normalize, Demonize, Legalize, (Victimize)! | The Cripplegate
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Examine Yourself – Truth For Life – The Bible-Teaching Ministry of Alistair Begg
Examine Yourself – Truth For Life – The Bible-Teaching Ministry of Alistair Begg
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This might be meant for all who have forgotten that the issue of ‘sin’ is the central message of the gospel.
A Rambling Excursion: The Free Offer of The Gospel – Part 2
This is the second installment of a guest post continuing from HERE. Mike is a British brother in Christ who have been a friend of our blog for years. Mike’s blog can be found HERE.
I sometimes think about the cross,
And close my eyes, and try to see
The cruel nails, and crown of thorns,
And Jesus crucified for me.
(v4 of the Hymn ‘It is a thing most wonderful’ by William Walsham How, 1823 – 97)
Do you?
That’s how a message given by Stuart Olyott began on Limited Atonement many years ago. I understand what it means but like Stuart, Particular Redemption is preferable because it is just that, particular. But we could also add Definite Atonement because something was accomplished not merely made possible. As I began looking at this subject a long time ago, many ministers were questioned, but Stuart was the…
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Guest Post: A Rambling Excursion: The Free Offer of The Gospel – Part 1
Note: I am overseas at the moment and will not have any internet. This is a guest post byMike Iliff. He’s a British brother in Christ who have been a friend of our blog for years. Mike’s blog can be found HERE.
The Free Offer of The Gospel or ‘Man’s Responsibility and the Sovereignty of God’ is one of those topics that always seems to come back. Just when you think, as a topic, it’s been put to bed and sorted, up it pops again. I mentioned this to a dear friend of mine (Now in his 80’s, and sat under the ministry of Lloyd-Jones at Westminster Chapel). He said ‘it’s been the same for 300 years, it keeps coming back’. On the plus side it keeps coming back because people, hopefully, are thinking. The objections are pretty much always the same. This makes me wonder if…
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‘The Carl Hatch Squeeze’
What Evangelism Isn’t
It was mentioned in an earlier post that personal evangelism is not primarily leading someone to make a decision for Christ or pray the sinner’s prayer, although decisions are made for Christ and prayers are prayed. In the same post one of the definitions of evangelism was:
“To evangelize is to present Christ Jesus to sinful people in order that, through the power of the Holy Spirit, they may come to put their trust in God through Him.” – Alistair Begg, Crossing the Barriers
I was listening to a radio interview recently in which I heard about something called ‘The Carl Hatch Squeeze’. I gathered from the interview I listened to that in certain evangelical circles, the Squeeze is considered an approved method for increasing one’s ‘soul count’. Without further ado, here’s the ‘The Carl Hatch Squeeze’.
When, in an evangelistic encounter, it was time to ‘close’ the deal and obtain a decision for Christ’ by asking ‘Do you want to pray the sinner’s prayer?’, and the answer was ‘no’ (and it happens a lot), Carl would ask if he could just pray with the person for a minute. In many cases a NO answers to the sinner’s prayer question turned into YES to a general prayer. Carl, with a hand on the person’s shoulder and a gentle squeeze, would then pray and ask God if He would help the person be a better husband, friend, worker, or a number of other ways we all want ‘be’ better. He would also include material blessings we all yearn for. The ‘mark’ (can I say that?) would be in total agreement with the ‘general’ prayer. Carl would then ask the sinner’s prayer question again. Many an initial NO became YES, Carl could claim another soul for the Kingdom, and all was well.
Or was it? I’ll let you be the judge.
What are your thoughts?
Make Your Life Count
We all know Christians who seem to have as their life’s ambition to do the bare minimum for Christ, and finish their race without breaking a sweat. Paul says we should run like we want to win. Make your life count.
Two London missionaries attempted to take the gospel to the New Hebrides Islands in 1839 but they were unceremoniously killed and eaten by cannibals only minutes after going ashore. Then in 1858 John G. Paton and his wife set sail to the islands, but not without some well-meaning opposition. On one occasion a respected elder warned, “You will be eaten by cannibals!” To which Paton responded with wry candidness,
Mr. Dickson, you are advanced in years now, and your own prospect is soon to be laid in the grave, there to be eaten by worms; I confess to you, that if I can but live and die serving and honoring the Lord Jesus, it will make no difference to me whether I am eaten by Cannibals or by worms.”
Food for thought, right?
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Excerpted from
The Lore of Running | The Cripplegate
Delight Yourself in the Lord – Truth For Life – The Bible-Teaching Ministry of Alistair Begg
Delight Yourself in the Lord – Truth For Life – The Bible-Teaching Ministry of Alistair Begg
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PRIDE
PRIDE
(J.C. Philpot, from his “Reviews” 1853)
“The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate..” [Prov 8:13]
“Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the LORD: though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished.” [Prov. 16:5]
Of all sins PRIDE seems most deeply imbedded in the very heart of man. Unbelief, sensuality, covetousness, rebellion, presumption, contempt of God’s holy will and word, hatred and enmity against the saints of the Most High, deceit and falsehood, cruelty and wrath, violence and murder–these, and a forest of other sins have indeed struck deep roots into the black and noxious soil of our fallen nature; and, interlacing their lofty stems and gigantic arms, have wholly shut out the light of heaven from man’s benighted soul.
But these and their associate evils do…
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The Battle Cry 