Rooted & Unwithered

This is a glorious image of our present walk of sanctification. We commit our whole heart to seek God, yet we place no confidence in ourselves, only in God’s faithfulness in keeping us.

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Preached January 19, 2020

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Today we are discussing John Piper's massive and greatly beneficial book Providence.

You can find the whole Katie series here.

Providence by John Piper

John Piper on the Prosperity Gospel

"We will never out-entertain the world. I just need to settle that. We’ll never out-entertain the world, nor should we try, because we have something infinitely better, something our souls were made for.

"And most of our people don’t know this. They don’t know what’s better than the fun they have in watching videos and other kinds of entertainment. They just don’t know. They’ve never tasted the real thing. Something profoundly stabilizing, strengthening, refining, and satisfying at the depths of our being is what people long for, and they don’t know what they’re longing for until they’re shown it over time."

⁠The Program-Driven Church

"We meet for corporate worship on the Lord’s Day morning. The service is oriented around the Word, prayer, and the sacraments. We have catechism instruction for the youth and for grown-ups. We go home to eat (and sometimes we share a meal together between services). We come back on the Lord’s Day evening for another public service where we open the Word again and pray. That is our program."

Although this question may appear to be nothing more than defining two dry terms of theology, understanding the meaning and distinctions of justification and sanctification is crucial for properly understanding how our salvation in Christ works. Particularly, justification and sanctification are the keys for understanding what role doing good works plays in our salvation, which will be the subject of the following two questions.

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The more we know Jesus, the more we will love Jesus. The more we love Jesus, the more we will naturally want to be like Him. When we look more like Christ and less like our sin, the result is purity.

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Preached January 12, 2020

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The First Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians is one of the earliest Christian writings outside of the New Testament. Let's discuss what it says!

Eowyn's Recommendation: A Child's Introduction to Ballet (Revised and Updated): The Stories, Music, and Magic of Classical Dance

Here is the edition that I read: The Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 1, but I would suggest that you grab the full, massive set on Kindle for only $2.99.

This new translation from Lexham also looks promising.

In Relatione (relevant links)

It is fitting that the Apostles’ Creed traditionally ends with Amen because those who believe these things can scarcely say anything else. The reminder of this good news should elicit a joyous declaration of “May it be so!” from our lips! These must be living truths within our breasts, not dead pieces of knowledge or trivia.

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A discussion of chapter 12 from my 2021 series reading through John Owen's Mortification of Sin together.

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