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  • What Does it Mean to Be a Christian? (Part Nine)

    I want to talk about grace. Grace is not something that I have understood very well, and I still really don't understand it. As far as I was concerned, grace was a cute term people used for the reason why God offers us salvation even though we don't deserve it. It is that; the offer of something we…

  • Is your light helping others?

    Beloved brothers good morning, I praise YHWH for this new day of life given, I had a good weekend thanks to Him and here I’m sharing a new message with you, and I hope as always, you will read it and meditate on it. In Mat 5:14-16. Jesus said that his disciples are the light of the world, so they mu…

  • The Salvage Yard

    In celebration of a long year without posting, I thought it meet to commemorate the anniversary by continuing to procrastinate. However, in further celebration, I offer this maundering in the hopes that it show some quality. "It was not just to unburden myself that I told him those stories. Robu…

  • God's greatest gift to any generation

    From Andrew A. Woolsey's "Channel of Revival: A Biography of Duncan Campbell," (The Faith Mission: Edinburgh, 1974, reprinted 1982), 64-65: God's greatest gift to any generation is not a major breakthrough in science of technology which makes life more easy; it is a man with the voice of eternity…

  • The Glory of God in Sovereign Electing Grace

    O! Vast ocean of Love that lifted me From the depths, the pit of iniquity Nay! Not just lifted, for I was dead My heart was stone, I had no breath How can a carcass whisper a plea Apart from the Incorruptible Seed? How could I come unless the Father drew? How could I raise myself up from…

  • What Is Hell and Who Goes?

    [This is reposted as part of our Best-Of Revelife Week. It was originally posted on September 10, 2009.] In a recent comment, Xanga's resident Theologian suggested that objecting to Christianity because the doctrine of hell seems cruel is like objecting to mathematics because it is too rigid and un…

  • Romans 9: A Free-Will Reading

    [This is reposted as part of our Best-Of Revelife week. It was originally posted on November 16, 2009.] Romans 9 has always been one of the most contested battlegrounds in Reformed-Arminian disputes, so much so that R. C. Sproul has proclaimed that Arminian theology is demolished by a single verse…

  • What Does it Mean to Be a Christian? (Part Three)

    I grew up in a very heavily Christian home, and I went to a private Christian school. I became a Christian at age 5. No joke, I gave my life to God on my 5th birthday. And even though I was young, I understood what it meant, and I made the choice with the same commitment I have now. I've been a Chri…

  • Freemasonry, or Christianity? (Part-III)

    The following is an excerpt from Wikipedia concerning Charles G. Finney: Charles Grandison Finney (August 29, 1792 – August 16, 1875) was a leader in the Second Great Awakening. He has been called The Father of Modern Revivalism.[1] Finney was best known as an innovative reviv…

  • John Calvin on The Call to Salvation

    By Nic Don at Theopolitical In commenting on Jesus’s statement that many are called but few are chosen, Calvin distinguishes between the general call that God issues to all people, and the special call which cannot be resisted, which is issued only to the elect. Because this special call cann…