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Perseverance: Boring — or Blessing?
What is perseverance and why does the Bible mention it a lot? Because we sure don’t see modern book titles like “30 Days to More Perseverance!” or “How to Persevere in Seven Easy Steps!” The secular definition for “perseverance” is “steady persistence in a course of action, a purpose, a state, etc., especially in spite of difficulties, obstacles, or discouragement.” And this is true. But for Christians, there is more. The secondary definition is “Continuance in a state of grace to the end, leading to eternal salvation.” Let’s see what the Bible says about it. Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering…
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How Christian Surrender Means Victory
We don’t like patience and surrender! Why? Because the heart of sin, the heart of the fall is that we want our own way. This is the essence of all of our struggles against God and against each other. We are angry and scared about giving up our way, what we think is best for us, what we want. Rationalize it as you want, Christian surrender is not something that we usually want to do. In our younger years, we have to have this one guy even though he’s not a Christian. Or he’s married. We want to go to this college. We want to have this career. Maybe we…
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Believer’s Independence Day
Believer’s Independence Day Thanks to http://www.familyministries.com/independence.htm for several of the original references and headings. But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ. Philippians 3:20 We recently celebrated Independence Day which is a fine thing to celebrate. I am deeply grateful to God for living in a country where I have religious and political freedom. But we are only secondarily citizens of the United State of America. We are first citizens of the Kingdom of God. What freedom and independence can we celebrate every day? Freedom from the bondage of sin that leads to death and eternal separation from God. 18 “’The…