fundamentalism by blunt instrument
From our Romans series:
The Love of God Commended (Rm 5.7-8)
Our look at Tyndale’s introduction to Romans:
Tyndale on Romans (3)
From our series in 1 Timothy:
A Charge Committed (1 Tim 1.18)
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Earlier in the week, our Wednesday PM look at the Psalms, Jan 6, 2010
The Meaning of Forever (Ps 89.1-52)
We resume our Romans series for the New Year:
Why Put Christ First? (Rm 5.6)
A continuing look at William Tyndale’s Prologue to Romans:
Our monthly communion message out of Leviticus
An Acceptable Sacrifice (Lev 22.17-34)
One of the interminable theological debates is the source of faith. Some insist that faith is given by God. Others insist that faith is what a man does himself when he believes. I doubt very much that a blog post by me will bring this debate to any sort of resolution.
What I want to talk about, though, is something I heard in a recorded sermon preached by a friend of mine. He said something like this (loose paraphrase from memory):
God gives you faith. He gives it to you in such a way that genuine Christian faith will lead you to persevere in that faith. They won’t be able to burn it out of you, you will persevere to the end.
And such like…
Well. This raises some questions in my mind:
The latest audio from the GBCvic
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