Challies – The Evidences of God’s Grace

The following is a post written by Tim Challies about grace. I really identified with the first  part, and then the analogy with the father and his child just really drove in the nail. Good writing http://www.challies.com/christian-living/evidences-of-gods-grace

salvation

In 2004, we were up here in pretoria visiting with my sister. I was in matric that year. It was the night before her wedding, and I was lying in bed, when I had a realisation that changed my life. Up until that point my christianity had been fairly shallow; half the time I wasnt [...]

My divided heart

I read a stunning prayer by Scotty Smith on A Disciple’s Study. The writer of this blog shares parts of sermons and books from all sorts of different sources. His posts often inspire me. Here’s the prayer: “The Lord saves not with sword and spear. For the battle is the Lord’s. 1 Sam. 17:47 This is what the Lord says to [...]

Discipleship vs Religiosity

In the words of our former lead elder: http://nicksblog3ci.blogspot.com/2011_05_01_archive.html Hope you find it as inspirational as I do…

God’s kingdom part 2

I can’t say that I always understand what the word means when it says certain things. Matthew 5-7 is all about the sermon on the mount. Jesus talks about the way that we should live, doesn’t he? True, but it’s not the complete truth. He’s giving an illustration of what his kingdom is like. I’ve [...]