Augustine understood that the same grace that saves is the same grace that sanctifies. Dependence upon God in yielding one’s own will over to God was a continual process that begins at salvation and extends throughout the believer’s life. Nowhere in Augustine’s writings is theread more ➜
As a follow-up from my previous post, I would like to suggest an interesting correlation between being made in God’s image and our speech. Consider the following. The Bible declares that humanity is created after the image and likeness of the Creator (Gen. 1:26), alsoread more ➜
In an earlier post, I mentioned originale peccatum (original sin) and offered some thoughts there. Here I’d like to balance that out just a bit with this offering from John Calvin: “There is within the human mind, and indeed by natural instinct, an awareness ofread more ➜
In Chapter 5 of John Stott’s classic Basic Christianity, he moves from the person of Christ to the person of…well, me, and you, and all other “mere” humans. I say “mere” because, unlike Jesus who is “fully” human, we are “merely” human with one ‘feature’read more ➜
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