How Can I Change?: Victory in the Struggle Against Sin"Originally titled From glory to glory"--T.p. verso. |
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... Father is perfect . " Quietly we sigh and think to ourselves , It will never happen . I call this state of mind the " gap trap . " Here's how it works : As Christians , we all have a certain amount of knowledge regarding what God ...
... Father is perfect . " Quietly we sigh and think to ourselves , It will never happen . I call this state of mind the " gap trap . " Here's how it works : As Christians , we all have a certain amount of knowledge regarding what God ...
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... more pointedly in a verse quoted earlier : " Be perfect , therefore , as your heavenly Father is perfect " ( Mt 5:48 ) . Does God really expect us to attain perfection ? A yearning for perfection has inspired many to pursue God. 8.
... more pointedly in a verse quoted earlier : " Be perfect , therefore , as your heavenly Father is perfect " ( Mt 5:48 ) . Does God really expect us to attain perfection ? A yearning for perfection has inspired many to pursue God. 8.
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... Father will love him , and we will come to him and make our home with him " ( Jn 14:23 ) . It's a tremendous joy and comfort to have the abiding presence of the Father and the Son through the Holy Spirit . And Jesus indicates that this ...
... Father will love him , and we will come to him and make our home with him " ( Jn 14:23 ) . It's a tremendous joy and comfort to have the abiding presence of the Father and the Son through the Holy Spirit . And Jesus indicates that this ...
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... Father , we too may live a new life . If we have been united with him like this in his death , we will certain- ly also be united with him in his resurrection . For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body of ...
... Father , we too may live a new life . If we have been united with him like this in his death , we will certain- ly also be united with him in his resurrection . For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body of ...
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... father . It claims most of us grew up in " dysfunctional " families , thus offering a ready - made explanation and excuse for our behavior . Rather than emphasizing personal responsibility , it stresses the way we've been ...
... father . It claims most of us grew up in " dysfunctional " families , thus offering a ready - made explanation and excuse for our behavior . Rather than emphasizing personal responsibility , it stresses the way we've been ...
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Page 73 - My sheep hear my voice; I know them and they follow me. I give them eternal life and they shall never perish. No one can take them out of my hand.
Page 96 - For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin -- because anyone who has died has been freed from sin.
Page 80 - O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the Lord our maker. For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand.
Page 77 - For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the sinful nature, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful man to be a sin offering. And so he condemned sin in sinful man, in order that the righteous requirements of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the sinful nature but according to the Spirit.
Page 95 - About a quarter before nine, while he was describing the change which God works in the heart through faith in Christ, I felt my heart strangely warmed. I felt I did trust in Christ, Christ alone, for salvation; and an assurance was given me that He had taken away my sins, even mine, and saved me from the law of sin and death.
Page v - Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us.
Page 28 - We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death : that like as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.
Page 28 - What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? ' God forbid. We who died to sin, how shall we any longer live therein? Or are ye ignorant that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death...
Page 70 - Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death — even death on a cross!
Page 34 - Do not offer the parts of your body to sin, as instruments of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God, as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer the parts of your body to Him as instruments of righteousness.