“Following our experience means we are always prisoners of what we have experienced thus far.”

“Following our experience means we are always prisoners of what we have experienced thus far.” I heard this today in a lecture by Mike Horton on Decision Making and the Will of God. It struck me as profound. Again, making ourselves the measure of what God can or cannot do is a pretty anemic way [...]

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September 15 – “God has already accommodated himself to our weakness. He is not far from us, if we will but attend to the ministry of the Word.”

“God has already accommodated himself to our weakness. He is not far from us, if we will but attend to the ministry of the Word. Therefore, we must resist ‘the sky’s the limit’ when it comes to accommodation. The Bible must be read, sung and preached in the common language of the people, but when we [...]

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September 1 – “…sanctification is not a matter of holiness as an end in itself…biblical piety is concerned with working out the implications of what God has already done in Christ.”

“From the biblical point of view, sanctification is not a matter of holiness as an end in itself. It would be selfish for us to focus our whole lives on our own growth and improvement, so the Scriptures constantly point us outside of ourselves, to love and serve God and our neighbor. So much of contemporary spirituality [...]

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