Sanctification

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God calls us to be holy, but we can’t make ourselves holy. What’s the answer to this conundrum? The gospel! God is justified in commanding us to be holy, because He first calls us saints. Understanding our identity in Christ is key to becoming holy, because sanctification isn’t a self-help program, but a work of God within us.

Scriptures Referenced: Neh 8:10; Joh 15:5; Rom 6:19; 2Cor 3:18; 2Cor 5:17; Gal 6:8; 1Thes 4:3,7; Heb 10:10; 1Pet 1:16
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Dec 5 2021

PP045 Attentiveness as an Act of Love

Christ, Christian Living, Grace, Local Church, Love, Sanctification, World

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Attention is a rare commodity. When you spend yours on another person, it is a generous gift of love. But there is also an indirect way of loving people with our attentiveness. When we make spending time in the presence of our kind Saviour a priority, we become kinder ourselves to those around us. Learn how the Scriptures call us to make the grace of Christ our focus, not all the debates and controversies. What will you focus on for the sake of the world?

Scriptures Referenced: Titus 3:1-11
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Nov 14 2021

PP041 This Little Light of Mine

Christ, Christian Living, Evangelism, Gospel, Sanctification, Service, Testimony, Will of God, Work

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When Christ calls us to be his salt and light to the world, he’s calling us to do this together. Don’t let the seeming insignificance of your little light paralyze you from being faithful in the ordinary good works the Lord has given you to do. We are to be individual and communal, radical and ordinary. Our Father providentially takes our ordinary service and adds it to that of all his people to produce a global net effect to his glory.

Scriptures Referenced: Mat 5:13-16

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Nov 7 2021

PP040 Salt AND Light Christians

Christian Living, Evangelism, God, Gospel, Sanctification, Testimony, World

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As Christians we are prone to veering into ditches. We focus on befriending the lost, but end up losing our Christian distinctiveness. So we start pursuing personal holiness, but in doing so cut off contact with the world. In his sermon on the mountain, Jesus lines our path with two rumble strips: (1) you are the salt of the earth, and (2) you are the light of the world. Together these rumble strips corral us into the radical centre–we are to be utterly separate, in close proximity to the world.

Scriptures Referenced: Mat 5:13-15; Joh 1:5, 8:12; Titus 2:14

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May 2 2021

PP013 The Cure for Performance Based Christianity

Christian Living, Grace, Justification, Sanctification, Union with Christ

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To borrow words from Jerry Bridges, are you saved by grace but living by the sweat of your own performance? (quoted by Lee Strobel in Case for Grace.) The performance treadmill is a joyless place to be in the Christian life. Tune in to hear more about the dangers of performance based Christianity, the impossibility of it, and, most importantly, the glorious cure!

Scriptures Referenced: Php 3:1-9

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