Tag: apostasy
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Christ’s Fruitless and Fruitful Word
Why do people reject such a gracious Gospel? Why do people claim to be Christians but add works to grace as the basis for salvation? Why do self-proclaimed Christians hear God’s word and explain it away saying, “The Bible doesn’t really mean that”? In the previous passage, Jesus told a parable and left the parable…
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It Pleases God To Have People Reject Jesus?
Jesus has been teaching about the rejection of His Gospel—despite our sin, God’s people are saved by grace through faith and not by any works of their own. Galileans are refusing to repent even though the kingdom of Heaven is at hand. In the previous passage, Jesus claimed that if Tyre, Sidon, and Sodom would…
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The Myth of the Super-Christian
Perhaps we have all seen it happen or we have experienced it ourselves. Some person is “super-Christian,” does all the right stuff, doesn’t cuss, doesn’t drink, doesn’t hang out with the wrong crowd, knows all of the Sunday School answers to all of the super spiritual questions, knows the content of the Bible, probably does…