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More than just getting out of hell
For most evangelicals knowing what we are saved from seems easier to articulate than knowing what we are saved for. In typically modern language we talk about the rescue plan for the individual who...
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Beware: God has high expectations
Do some people in our churches not change simply because we don’t expect them to? They “came in from the cold”; they got their “get out of hell free card”; they were marked with that heavenly bar-code...
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Living out the future now
In the movie “Master and Commander” there is a heart-wrenching bitter-sweet scene of loss and gain for which a high price must be paid http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeERYS-0Tnw. The captain boldly...
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Reshaping: Formed, conformed & transformed
When we speak of the difference between our goal and our destination we speak of the difference between having “Christ formed in us” and the new heaven and new earth. We distinguish between the past,...
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Transformation is part of the gospel
The Bible shows us lives of disciples who have been remarkably transformed by the indwelling power of God’s Spirit. And throughout church history millions of Christians have claimed that the same...
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Christlikeness and marginalising maturity
If you are a subscriber to Mars Hill Audio the below insights will not be new to you. But if you are an avid imbiber of the wisdom of those who can see what is happening to western culture it is an...
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The temptation of the church
It has always been the temptation of the church in every age to simply baptise the passions of the wider culture in order to reduce the tension. To imitate what is outside the church in order to make...
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Don’t get bogged-down
It’s not uncommon to hear Christians talk of their own sense of imperfection and the subsequent shame caused by dark tendencies that seem to create pot-holes in the road of life. It’s not an uncommon...
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Christian being formed – its on the tin
Christian spiritual formation does what it says on the tin – it’s about being conformed to Christ. If we think about a similar process where a clay pot is being formed on a wheel we notice that it goes...
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Cynics think they have x-ray vision
For too many Christians the very idea or even the possibility of change, and subsequent growth in Christlikeness, seems too elusive or even too naïve to contemplate. We breathe in the cultural smog of...
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