Tag: Desiring
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How God Guards You | Needing God
[ad_1] Audio Transcript First Peter 1:5 holds a really particular place in your life, Pastor John — a valuable textual content about God’s conserving energy over his youngsters, of these “who by God’s energy are being guarded by religion for a salvation able to be revealed within the final time.” So valuable. That is the…
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Does Free Will Exist? | Needing God
[ad_1] Audio Transcript Welcome again to the podcast on this Monday. Right now in our Bible studying, we learn Jeremiah 23–25 collectively. It included a gorgeous new-covenant textual content that one listener needs you to clarify extra. The listener is Matthew. He wrote, “Pastor John, hi there to you. I discover myself usually in debates…
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Overcoming Religious Laziness | Needing God
[ad_1] Audio Transcript How will we overcome half-hearted religious laziness? That’s the query at the moment and Thursday. And talking of zeal for God, I ought to first point out once more that this October we’re celebrating the Reformation — Martin Luther’s nice stand towards the pope and towards Rome’s religious abuses and theological errors.…
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Rome’s Seven Lethal Errors | Needing God
[ad_1] Audio Transcript At the moment we discuss a few of the deadliest errors of present-day Roman Catholicism. And over the subsequent month, we have a look at Rome traditionally. This October, we’re celebrating the Reformation — Martin Luther’s nice stand towards the pope and towards Rome’s non secular abuses and theological errors. However Luther…
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On Hoarding | Wanting God
[ad_1] Audio Transcript Welcome again to the Ask Pastor John podcast. Right here we speak from time to time about wartime residing. And we discuss minimalism, too. However these should not the identical factor. The Christian life just isn’t merely about decluttering our closets and residing a less complicated life. No. We purpose at wartime…
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God’s ‘Glorious Work’ | Wanting God
[ad_1] ABSTRACT: All through church historical past, some theologians have adopted Aristotle’s description of lady as a “deformed” or “malformed” man. The Reformers, nevertheless, celebrated lady as “a most wonderful work” of God, equally able to advantage and worthy of affection, respect, and justice. Along with their doctrine of male headship, the Reformers’ protection of…
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What Is ‘White-Scorching Worship’? | Wanting God
[ad_1] Audio Transcript ‘White-hot worship.’ What’s it? Pastor John likes to make use of the phrase. And for these of you from a sure charismatic background, it’s a phrase that carries all types of unintended baggage, issues Pastor John doesn’t intend by it. So, what’s ‘white-hot worship’? Lisa asks the query as we speak: “Pastor…
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Are Bikes for Fools? | Wanting God
[ad_1] Audio Transcript Are bikes for fools? That’s at present’s query. And we’re talking of leisure bikes right here, in fact — their main perform within the States. And it’s actually a query about windfall greater than the rest. Right here’s the e-mail: “Howdy, Pastor John. My identify is Ian, and I reside within the…
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Fact Triumphs By way of Windfall | Wanting God
[ad_1] Few issues in my fifty years of ministry have been extra gratifying than to see the purposeful, all-wise, absolute sovereignty of God, which we name “windfall,” transfer from being a stumbling block to religion to being a faith-sustaining, sanity-preserving rock of refuge for peculiar Christians passing by hellish circumstances. For instance, a quote from…
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Baptists Premature Born | Wanting God
[ad_1] ABSTRACT: English and American Congregationalists like John Cotton, John Owen, and Jonathan Edwards arrived at considerably Baptist conclusions concerning the regenerate nature of the church and its distinction from the state. As a result of additionally they believed in toddler baptism and state-sponsored faith, nevertheless, they’d a dilemma. The steep decline in Congregationalism because…