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The Powerlessness of Prayer-Shaming

“What if you and your family were starving, and someone with an abundance of food responded by letting you know that they were ‘offering thoughts and prayers’?” You’re immediate inner thought would be, “Stop praying. Do something!” A preponderance of…

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James, Justification and the Human Court

I have often taken comfort in the fact that the Apostle Peter said that Apostle Paul wrote “some things hard to understand, which untaught and unstable people twist to their own destruction, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures” (2 Peter 3:15-16).  I…

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Spiritual Despair: A Universal Malady

Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) was a peculiar sort of apologist for the spiritual earnestness he believed is demanded by the gospel and necessary to being human. It is not surprising, then, that Kierkegaard had much to say about despair before God…

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Judgment According to Works

Part 1: Justification by Precision Alone? Part 2: Act and Habit of Faith Part 3: Justification is an act that cannot be revoked Part 4: Arminian vs. Reformed on justification  Part 5: One or Two Justifications?  Part 6: Judgment According…