Sanctification

“When Christ calls a man, He bids him come and die.” Dietrich Bonhoeffer was about thirty years old when he penned these words in his classic work The Cost of Discipleship. Eight years later he was executed for his crimes against the Third Reich. The prison doctor who witnessed Bonhoeffer’s execution wrote, “In the almost [...]

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The Mindset of a Pilgrim

November 13, 2009 · Posted in Holiness, Ryle, Sanctification

A holy man will follow after spiritual mindedness. He will endeavor to set his affections entirely on the things above, and to hold things on earth with a very loose hand. He will not neglect the business of the life now is; but the first place in his mind and thoughts will be given to [...]

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Climbing Out of the Mire

October 10, 2009 · Posted in Sanctification, Sproul

Our souls cannot climb out of the mire of sin because they are dead. Salvation comes not to those who cry out, “Show me the way to heaven,” but to those who cry, “Take me there for I cannot.” Lest we see the sinner’s prayer as mere technique, we must remember that Christ raises the [...]

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Our Blessed Hope

October 5, 2009 · Posted in Holiness, Sanctification

Though we will not be like Him until the last day (1 John 3:2), we know that even now we enjoy a foretaste of that future in glory by the power of the Holy Spirit. Sin will be fully purged from our bodies at our resurrection. And we who rightly understand this truth also know [...]

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