Showing posts with label Sanctification. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sanctification. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 16, 2022

What God Begins, God Finishes

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For I am confident of this very thing,  that He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus. Philippians 1:6 ...
Tuesday, October 12, 2021

The Truth and Our Mind

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  Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever in honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good r...
Monday, May 03, 2021

Pressing On and Taking Hold

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Not that I have already obtained it or have already become perfect, but I press on so that I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid...
Monday, October 19, 2020

Blessed are the Gentle

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                                             Take my yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart... Matthew 11:29a...
Wednesday, July 10, 2019

Impediments to Spiritual Growth---Fear

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For God has not given us a spirit of timidity, but of power and love and discipline. II Timothy 1:7 Those of you who learned this...
Tuesday, May 06, 2014

God's Faithfulness and Hard Providence

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This was a comment I made on another blog concerning times of hard providence. How do we reconcile the faithfulness of God with times of...
Thursday, May 23, 2013

Our Standing with God

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Based on our own merits we have no standing with God. Therefore, we must always base our standing with God on what He has done for us i...
Thursday, May 16, 2013

Relating to God

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For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a  result  of works, that n...
Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Growing in Sanctification

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Growing in sanctification is growing in personal holiness.  As such it is a practical, progressive, holiness.  It is a growth in holiness th...
Saturday, August 18, 2012

Is it Us or God?---Enabled by the Spirit

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By by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me did not prove vain; but I labored even more than all of them, yet, not...
Monday, August 06, 2012

The True Christian

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The True Christian understands that his good works are but the product of the grace of God in his life.
Friday, April 20, 2012

Indwelling Sin vs the Indwelling Spirit

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For the good that I want, I do not do, but I practice the very evil that I do not want.  But if I am doing the very thing I do not wa...
Monday, October 03, 2011

Redeeming the Time

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How then do we redeem time, and how are we redeemed from time?  On the one hand, we rdeem the time by living out our lives according to our...
Saturday, October 01, 2011

Means of Sanctification

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Sanctification, again, is a thing which depends greatly on a diligent use of scriptural means.  When I speak of 'means', I have in v...