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Yesterday we celebrated Justin’s 5th birthday. He was dead set on a superhero theme, so I developed my patented crash course in super-heroics–Professor Mayhem’s School for Superheroes ™. Justin and co experienced the rigors of “brick wall bashing with style,” battled Mr. Freeze tag, practiced super strength with a mighty pinata, had […]
In light of the recent hoorah on the supposed tomb of Christ being discovered in Israel, it is good to consider how intimately the resurrection of Christ is connected to the outworking of God’s grace in our lives. We’ve arrived at the end of our “quoted review” of The Great Work of the Gospel: […]
The goodness of Good Friday was proclaimed long before that day…
Psalm 22
Some consider it a great historical irony that Christendom calls the anniversary of the day that the son of God was unjustly executed on a roman cross Good Friday. John Ensor explains the goodness of Good Friday in our next quote from The Great Work of the Gospel: How We Experience God’s Grace:
Why […]
Continuing our “review in quotes” of The Great Work of the Gospel: How We Experience God’s Grace, John Ensor examines how an active, true work of the Gospel in a person’s soul will evidence itself beyond the borders of our inner being and suffuse the world with God’s glory. “What good is it, my […]
In today’s quote from The Great Work of the Gospel: How We Experience God’s Grace, John Ensor shows us that Christ’s substitutionary atonement for us is not a statement of our worth and value to God, but is a statement of the greatness of God’s mercy:
Someone may object, “God loves me. Christ died for […]
My wife pointed me to The Purple Cellar for an excerpt from Iain Duguid’s commentary on Numbers:
Why is it that we give in to sin and disobedience so often, even though we know what are doing is wrong? . . . The underlying dynamic that drives our sin is unbelief. . . . We have […]
Continuing our quoted review of The Great Work of the Gospel: How We Experience God’s Grace by John Ensor, here is a quote from the first chapter, “The Great Work Considered”:
In searching out the grace of God according to the Bible, it does not take long to be surprised. The apostle Paul said, “For […]
I am currently reading an excellent book by John Ensor called The Great Work of the Gospel: How We Experience God’s Grace. This is an excellent work on how the transforming work of the Gospel is experienced and how we are to comprehend and apprehend God’s grace.
In celebration of passover week, I will be […]