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Christian Morality and the Righteousness of Christ
Christian morality is rooted in the character of God as revealed in Christ. It is not an achievement by which we are considered righteous, rather, it is the fruit that is born by those who are already righteous through faith in the blood of Christ. To act right we must first be right with God. Continue reading
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Test Post Using Open Live Writer On My New Laptop
I recently bought a new Acer Swift 3 laptop to replace my aging Macbook Pro. It has better specs for the money, though I am just now returning to a Windows platform for the first time in twenty years. My Macbook battery had aged out in its charging cycles by almost half again what Continue reading
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Heart Matters
“What the heart loves, the will chooses and the mind justifies.” ~ Ashley Null, in Thomas Cranmer’s Doctrine of Repentance: Renewing the Power to Love Therefor, we cannot follow the natural heart, but what God has revealed in his word. Since… “The heart is more deceitful than all elseAnd is desperately sick;Who can understand it?“I, Continue reading
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Slaves, Priest, Kings of Blood
Christ has purchased us with his own blood. By paying the redemption price, to set us free from our slavery to sin, He has reconciled us to God. “You were bought with a price; do not become slaves of men.” (1 Cor. 7:23) Again it is said: “For you have been bought with a price: Continue reading
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Who Am I? Who Am I Becoming?
“At every moment you choose yourself. But do you choose your self? Body and soul contain a thousand possibilities out of which you can build many I’s. But in only one of them is there a congruence of the elector and the elected. Only one—which you will never find until you have excluded all those Continue reading
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My new video… For those who suffer and are afraid
Thus says the Lord to Cyrus His anointed,Whom I have taken by the right hand,To subdue nations before himAnd to loose the loins of kings;To open doors before him so that gates will not be shut: “I will go before you and make the rough places smooth;I will shatter the doors of bronze and cut Continue reading
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Bonhoeffer: The Image of God is Christ Crucified
The following passage by Dietrich Bonhoeffer is from his book, part of the last chapter, in The Cost of Discipleship. It is the truest and most profound theology, a theology of the cross, the theology of “Christ in us the hope of glory”, a theology of Emmanuel, the incarnate Lord Jesus Christ who is “God Continue reading
About Me
A Christian, thinking, vlogging, and writing online. I live elsewhere as well. I follow the theology of the cross in the faith and practice of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Formerly a pastor in Europe and America, now living semi-retired in Kentucky (U.S.), driving for the Amish and in-home carer.
Crucified Hearts 