Time to get busy

Are you really sure that you belong to God?
Your baptism was ok (it’s just a symbol of your commitment to God)…but don’t you know that you must do some things to be a Christian?
You need to walk the walk, not just talk the talk.
You need to really work at not sinning. Where there is sin in [...]

Assurance of Election

 
The following is from our friend David at Five Pint Lutheran http://fivepintlutheran.blogspot.com/2009/10/assurance-of-election.html
Thank you, David!
Enjoy!
I have been asking a question to those who believe in Limited Atonement. “How, if Jesus did not die for every person, do you know you are died for?” The answers are numerous but all involve some type of inward peering. A [...]

1. Are you ready?

2. “Ready for what?”
3. “Ready for the Lord’s return!”
4. “Yes I am.”
5. “You don’t look like you are ready…your life is a mess!  You’d better clean up your act before the Lord returns or you just might not make it!”
6.  “____________________ “
( how would you fill in the response for line #6?)
 
 
 

Worried about your performance?

When thoughts like that entered the head of Martin Luther, he would return to his baptism. He would return to the promises of God. He would leave the place of uncertainty and doubt and go the place of assurance, the place where God had acted…for Martin Luther.
Thoughts of uncertainty (are we really doing what we [...]

So what will you do for God today?

 If you plan on doing something for God today, it had better be pretty darn spectacular. It had better be something far better than you’ve ever done before and better yet than you’ve ever even dreamed of doing.
I put it like that because God is not easily impressed. God doesn’t get giddy when He sees [...]

How can you be sure?

Baptism…that’s how. 
Check out the great post concerning baptism and the assurance that God wants you to have in yours, over at http://fivepintlutheran.blogspot.com/
Who does the baptising?
If we do it, then how can we trust in it?
If God does it, then can’t it be fully trusted?
Does anything really happen in baptism, anyway?
Do you feel like you are [...]

Looking Good…on Wood.

Do you look good on wood?
If you’re going to have anything to do with Jesus the Christ, you will find out.
Every single person in this world is going to go to the cross…either in this life, or the next.
For followers of Jesus it is the same story.  Jesus told us that we also will [...]

‘Are We Sitting Comfortably?’ by Howard Nowlan

 
“The Kingdom of God is like”….
 
What is it that makes a good movie or novel?
No doubt we could all identify several key aspects or ingredients that we look for, but there are a couple of things that are probably essential.
The first, I would say, is where the story takes us. When we get to that [...]

Should’s, Ought’s, and Must’s…and the the ever present…’Need To’s’

Addendum to post:  While driving back from San Diego this morning ( I took my wife to the airport)  I was listening to a very well known preacher on the radio who used the phrase, “If only…”, quite often in his sermon.
So I’m adding it to my list of words to watch out for. Example: ” [...]

In a Nutshell…

My last post was probably a bit convoluted. The examples maybe were not the best.
What I was trying to get across is that so much of today’s preaching and teaching regarding the Christian faith is nothing more than ‘law’ . St. Paul  tells us that there in no life in the law…only death.
So when a [...]