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     Now to the one who works, wages are not credited as a gift but as an obligation. However, to the one who does not work but trusts God who justifies the ungodly, their faith is credited as righteousness. David says the same thing when he speaks of the blessedness of the one to whom God creditsContinue reading “A Prayer of Praise for the Scandalous Goodness of the Gospel”

There are many ways God uses to get us to where he wants us to go. But there is only one message he gives to save us from sin. The problems in our day is that we get the one and the many reversed. We think there’s only one way God can direct our lives.Continue reading “The One and the Many”

To contemplate all the privileges of communion with Christ would be, Owen says, “work for a man’s whole life.” Yet these are all summed up in what he regards as “the head, the spring, and fountain whence they all arise and flow.” This—the highest privilege of all—is adoption into the family of God with allContinue reading “4 Benefits of Our Adoption”

TGC Spotlight highlights TGC articles from earlier in the week, previews articles coming next week, and links to items around the web that you might have missed.  Around the Web What You Should Know About the Space Probe that Landed on a Comet What is the comet-landing story about? On Wednesday, November 12, a roboticContinue reading “TGC Spotlight 11.14.14”

Warning: This review contains spoilers. Stop reading now if you don’t want to know what happens in the film. Interstellar, the new film directed by Christopher Nolan, attempts to say something profound about human relationships and meaning, a goal that by itself is worth celebrating. What the film tries to say is a little more ambiguous.Continue reading “The Scientific Romanticism of ‘Interstellar’”

Eric O. Jacobsen. The Space Between: A Christian Engagement with the Built Environment. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2012. 304 pp. $25.00. The church I pastor has a strong commitment to place: the neighborhoods we live in, the streets we travel, the businesses we frequent. In a city known for sprawl, this commitment isn’t easy toContinue reading “The Space Between”

I am not ashamed to be complementarian. It has never been a dirty word for me, because I’ve grown up seeing godly expressions of it in my family, and hearing compelling arguments for it from my ministry heroes. More than anything, C. S. Lewis books like Perelandra have shaped my thinking about gender. (For anyoneContinue reading “4 Dangers for Complementarians”

It’s time for our weekly $5 Friday sale. This week’s resources cover such topics as the gospel, the church, Islam, Isaac Watts, Scripture, God’s promises, and more. Sale runs through 12:01 a.m. — 11:59 p.m. Friday ET. View today’s $5 Friday sale items. from Ligonier Ministries Blog http://ift.tt/1zSVtTx via IFTTT

The fact that we don’t experience a profound connection with God, the way Jesus did, should be no surprise. Here’s one simple thing we can do to change that. from Verge Network http://ift.tt/114MOOO via IFTTT

We all must come to terms with the way we are. But there are two ways we must do this. The first is to cultivate contentment with who God designed us to be, which results in a wonderful liberation from trying to be someone we’re not. The second is to lay aside the burdensome weightContinue reading “Lay Aside the Weight of “I’ll Never Change””