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1 | Though Knowing Men Disobey | Rom 1:32 | DocTrinsograce | 244053 | ||
"The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing Him, they still insist on going their own way." --William Barclay (1907-1978) |
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2 | Honoring God in All Things | Ps 35:15 | DocTrinsograce | 244052 | ||
"A pure, sincere, and stable spirit is not distracted though it be employed in many works; for that it works all to the honor of God, and inwardly being still and quiet, seeks not itself in any thing it doth." --Thomas à Kempis (1418) |
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3 | The Ephemerality of this Life | Ps 103:15 | DocTrinsograce | 244051 | ||
"The present life of man, O king, seems to me, in comparison of that time which is unknown to us, like to the swift flight of a sparrow through the room wherein you sit at supper in winter, with your commanders and ministers, and a good fire in the midst, whilst the storms of rain and snow prevail abroad; the sparrow, I say, flying in at one door, and immediately out at another, whilst he is within, is safe from the wintry storm; but after a short space of fair weather, he immediately vanishes out of your sight, into the dark winter from which he had emerged. So this life of man appears for a short space, but of what went before, or what is to follow, we are utterly ignorant. If, therefore, this new doctrine contains something more certain, it seems justly to deserve to be followed." --Venerable Bede (672-735) of the Kingdom of Northumbria of the Angles |
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4 | All in Things in Prayer | 1 Thess 3:10 | DocTrinsograce | 244050 | ||
Prayer is God speaking? Oy. I wonder what Paul would have thought of that! | ||||||
5 | All in Things in Prayer | 1 Thess 3:10 | DocTrinsograce | 244048 | ||
"Sometimes we hear it said that ten minutes on your knees will give you a truer, deeper, more operative knowledge of God than ten hours over your books. 'What!' is the appropriate response, 'than ten hours over your books, on your knees? Why should you turn from God when you turn to your books, or feel that you must turn from your books in order to turn to God?'" --Professor Benjamin B. Warfield (1887-1921) |
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6 | Wesley on Experiantialism in the 1700s | 1 Cor 14:32 | DocTrinsograce | 244045 | ||
"I plainly told them [the enthusiasts] the utmost I could allow, without renouncing both Scripture and reason, was that some of these circumstances [mystical experiences and supernatural manifestations] might be from God (though I could not affirm they were) working in an unusual manner, no way essential to either justification or sanctification; but that all the rest I must believe to be the mere empty dreams of an heated imagination. "Try all things by the written word, and let all bow down before it. You’re in danger of enthusiasm every hour, if you depart ever so little from the Scripture: yea; from that plain, literal meaning of any text, taken with the context." --John Wesley (1703-1791) |
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7 | Sanctification Defiined | Heb 12:9 | DocTrinsograce | 244044 | ||
"Christian maturing describes that aspect of growing up that begins at the new birth and is dependent at every stage upon the action of the Spirit through the grace of God. Becoming mature in Christ involves both the deepening of our relationship with him in repentance, faith and obedience and the transforming into his likeness, which will include our thinking, behaviour, attitudes, habits, and character. Together with growth in the knowledge of God and his truth, there should be a development in capacity to distinguish between good and evil. The supreme glory of this maturing is the increasing ability to love and be loved in our relationship with God, the Church and the world. This transformation is accomplished by the action of the Holy Spirit, using the means of grace (worship, sacraments, prayer, preaching, Bible study, etc.). The Holy Spirit brings people to Jesus our Lord and changes them into his likeness 'from one degree of glory into another' (2 Cor 3:18). This is the high calling of all God's people and should be seen in the context of God's wider plans for creation (Rom 8:19-23)." --The Nottingham Statement H1 (1977), from the 2nd National Evangelical Anglican Congress | ||||||
8 | High View of Scripture | Deut 29:21 | DocTrinsograce | 244041 | ||
Dear justme, The phrases high or low view of scripture is a theological term, not a point of characterization or criticism. People of either persuasion may very much love the Word. A high view of scripture is how we describe denominations who hold to all the doctrines of sola scriptura. A low view of scripture is how we describe denominations who have some other authority that they hold as having equal or greater place for binding their consciences. This can be many other things from a formal magisterium to personal experience. I don't quote people so much as someone with whom I share all doctrine, or because they are particularly pious... rather, when people express and expose the Word of God in a particularly perspicuous fashion, they are worthy of being quoted. After all, in church history there have been so many who have laboured in Bible study and teaching... far beyond what I have done. Consequently, I am proud of this wonderful treasure (Eph 4) given to us by our Lord... if I were to always express my own thoughts: it would reveal great hubris; and it would be of far less value. In Him, Doc |
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9 | The Visible Struggle | 1 Tim 5:10 | DocTrinsograce | 244040 | ||
"For how soon that ever the Spirit of the Lord Jesus (which God's elect children receive by true faith) takes possession in the heart of any man, so soon does he regenerate and renew the same man; so that he begins to hate that which before he loved, and begins to love that which before he hated. And from thence comes that continual battle which is betwixt the flesh and the spirit in God's children; while the flesh and natural man (according to their own corruption) lust for things pleasing and delectable unto the self, grudge in adversity, are lifted up in prosperity, and at every moment are prone and ready to offend the Majesty of God (Rom. 7:15-25; Gal. 5:17). But the Spirit of God, which gives witnessing to our spirit, that we are the sons of God (Rom. 8:16), makes us to resist filthy pleasures, and to groan in God's presence for deliverance from this bondage of corruption (Rom. 7:24, 8:22); and finally, to triumph over sin that it reign not in our mortal bodies (Rom. 6:12)." --The Scottish Confession of Faith (1560) 13.2 | ||||||
10 | God bless you Christmas and in 2017 | Eccl 7:1 | DocTrinsograce | 244039 | ||
Dear justme, Amen and amen! Thank you also for your kind words! You have been a wonderful participant. I am proud of the work in your life by our Lord. You have always evidenced the fruit of the Spirit in how kind, loving, patient, and gentle you have been. You have always complied with our gracious host, the Lockman Foundation's Terms of Use -- an example of one who walks in the Spirit to all our many readers. Because of this, our God is brought great glory! In Him, Doc |
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11 | Good Works | 1 Tim 5:10 | DocTrinsograce | 244033 | ||
"So that the cause of good works we confess to be, not our free will, but the Spirit of the Lord Jesus who, dwelling in our hearts by true faith, brings forth such good works as God has prepared for us to walk into. For this we most boldly affirm, that blasphemy it is to say that Christ Jesus abides in the hearts of such as in whom there is no spirit of sanctification (Eph. 2:10; Phil 2:13; John 15:5; Rom. 8:9). And therefore we fear not to affirm that murderers, oppressors, cruel persecutors, adulterers, whoremongers, filthy persons, idolaters, drunkards, thieves, and all workers of iniquity, have neither true faith, neither any portion of the spirit of sanctification, which proceeds from the Lord Jesus, so long as obstinately they continue in their wickedness." --Scottish Confession of Faith 13.1 (1560) | ||||||
12 | Now I can empathize with Paul | Acts 16:17 | DocTrinsograce | 244029 | ||
Now I can empathize with Paul. | ||||||
13 | 1 Peter 1:20 | Job 15:3 | DocTrinsograce | 244028 | ||
"For if he attacks us without studying Christ's teachings, he is utterly depraved and worse than the simpleminded, who usually avoid discussing subjects they know nothing about"--Justln Martyr (165-180) | ||||||
14 | Politician's Refusal to Listen | Jer 26:5 | DocTrinsograce | 244025 | ||
"The church's theology bought into this ahistoricism in different ways: along a more liberal, post-Kantian trajectory, the historical particularities of Christian faith were reduced to atemporal moral teachings that were universal and unconditioned. Thus it turned out that what Jesus taught was something like Kant's categorical imperative - a universal ethics based on reason rather than a set of concrete practices related to a specific community. Liberal Christianity fostered ahistoricism by reducing Christianity to a universal, rational kernel of moral teaching. Along a more conservative, evangelical trajectory (and the Reformation is not wholly innocent here), it was recognized that Christians could not simply jettison the historical particularities of the Christian event: the birth, life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. However, there was still a quasi-Platonic, quasi-gnostic rejection of material history such that evangelicalism, while not devolving to a pure ahistoricism, become dominated by a modified ahistoricism we can call primitivism. Primitivism retains the most minimal commitment to God's action in history (in the life of Christ and usually in the first century of apostolic activity) and seeks to make only this first-century 'New Testament church' normative for contemporary practice. This is usually articulated by a rigid distinction between Scripture and tradition (the latter then usually castigated as 'the traditions of men' as opposed to the 'God-give' realities of Scripture). Such primitivism is thus anticreedal and anticatholic, rejecting any sense that what was unfolded by the church between the first and the twenty-first centuries is at all normative for current faith and practice (the question of the canon's formation being an interesting exception here). Ecumenical creeds and confessions - such as the Apostles' Creed or the Nicene Creed - that unite the church across time and around the globe are not 'live' in primitivist worship practices, which enforce a sense of autonomy or even isolation, while at the same time claiming a direct connection to first-century apostolic practices." --James K. A. Smith | ||||||
15 | B | Mic 2:7 | DocTrinsograce | 244024 | ||
Www.evangelicaloutreach.org/view-of-scripture | ||||||
16 | Entreaties and Supplications | 1 Tim 2:2 | DocTrinsograce | 244023 | ||
"I am at a loss to know whether to weep more for those they [Soldiers of Coroticus] killed or those that are captured: or indeed for these men themselves whom the devil has taken fast for his slaves. In truth, they will bind themselves alongside him in the pains of the everlasting pit: for 'he who sins is a slave already' and is to be called 'son of the devil.'" --Maewyn Succat (385-461) |
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17 | Tradition vs Traditionalism | Mal 2:6 | DocTrinsograce | 244022 | ||
"Tradition is the living faith of the dead, traditionalism is the dead faith of the living." --Jaroslav Pelikan (1923-2006) |
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18 | High View of Scripture | Deut 29:21 | DocTrinsograce | 244019 | ||
"An evangelical is somebody who, first of all, has a very high view of Scripture, believing it's an infallible message from God." --Tony Campolo (1935-) |
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19 | Confessional History | Ps 119:26 | DocTrinsograce | 244018 | ||
"Both Bob and I wrote the book as catholic Christians-those who hold to the creeds of the ancient church-and as evangelical Christians -- those who believe in justification by grace through faith and identify with ecclesiastical bodies which subscribe to Reformation confessions. To use Bob's distinction, we do not write as Evangelicals whose movement is rooted in the revivals of the eighteenth century and which draws much of its strength from Baptist and parachurch circles. Thus, the volume has sections on some things of interest to Evangelicals, such as the doctrine of scripture, but also on matters of comparative indifference to Evangelicalism while yet of great importance to the Reformers, such as the Lord's Supper. "The joy of the project lay much in our friendship but also in the fact that we allowed the history of our creeds and confessions and churches to guide our priorities and our discussion. A common commitment to Nicaea and Chalcedon, and a trust in God's word and in the righteousness of Christ was the foundation which allowed then for substantial engagement. It also meant that we could disagree while yet preserving a common Christian bond of friendship. Further, it was good to have confessional history set the framework for our discussion. If nothing else, the debate over the Trinity of the last six months has pointed to how contemporary economies of power and money, detached from ecclesiastical accountability, profoundly shape the American Evangelical landscape. It has also revealed how the Evangelical mind is gripped by the notion that, while any deviation on scripture is lethal, considerable flexibility on the doctrine of God is tolerable. History indicates otherwise and Evangelicals need to understand that." --Carl Trueman |
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20 | Professions are Verified by Fruit | John 6:60 | DocTrinsograce | 244013 | ||
"If a person does not show any fruit -- that is, any visible evidence of the change that has taken place in his heart since receiving Jesus Christ as his personal Savior -- then that individual is not a Christian [cf Matthew 7:20-21]. Time will tell if a person who comes forward at a crusade or church invitation to make a profession of faith has actually gone through a conversion." --Greg Laurie (1952-) |
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