This has become one of my favorite sermons of all time. I invite you to take an hour to watch it through. You’ll be glad you did…:)
Teaching tithing as New Covenant law only shovels more condemnation on the sheep.
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We are FREE in Christ! The law can only bring death, not life!
Wanna’ keep the law? Fine. Then you must keep the rest. Good luck with that. I wish you the best…all the feast laws, all the ceremonial laws, all the cleanliness laws; every single one of’m.
When you finally realize you can’t, Christ will still be waiting with open arms.
…stupid sheep that we are.
And yes, I’m yelling….:D
I just noticed that my hit stats just passed the 75,000 mark. Why on earth any of you visit me here to listen to what I have to say is well beyond me, but for all who have subscribed and comment here, I only have appreciation and gratefulness toward you.
Thanks for making the effort worth it!
Matthew Blair
When you purchase a new hardback, do you leave the dust cover on or do you pitch it?
Vote here. 
HT: Tony Reinke
Check up above and you’ll se a new page…“Bible Hacks/Tips”
All right, sue me….I’ve been stealing a lot from other bloggers as of late…
“Remember that the man who truly repents is never satisfied with his own repentance. We can no more repent perfectly than we can live perfectly. However pure our tears, there will always be some dirt in them; there will be something to be repented of even in our best repentance. But listen! To repent is to change your mind about sin, and Christ, and all the great things of God. There is sorrow implied in this; but the main point is the turning of the heart from sin to Christ. If there be this turning, you have the essence of true repentance, even though no alarm and no despair should ever cast their shadow upon your mind.”
C. H. Spurgeon, All Of Grace, page 70.
HT: Ray Ortlund
After a great review of Paul Miller’s recent book “A Praying Life” by Tim Challies, the author popped in on the thread and offered his response to some of the gentle critisisms brought up in that review.
I commend both men for the kindness and love used in their words.
“How, then, can we behold the glory of Christ? We need, firstly, a spiritual understanding of his glory as revealed in Scripture. Secondly, we need to think much about him if we wish to enjoy him fully (1 Pet. 1:8). If we are satisfied with vague ideas about him we shall find no transforming power communicated to us. But when we cling wholeheartedly to him and our minds are filled with thoughts of him and we constantly delight ourselves in him, then spiritual power will flow from him to purify our hearts, increase our holiness, strengthen our graces, and sometimes fill us ‘with joy inexpressible and full of glory.”
- John Owen via OFI
“The more we Christians pursue worldly relevance, the more we’ll render ourselves irrelevant to the world around us.”
- T. Tchividjian via @GoDoSomething
This side of heaven, we must fight with every ounce of our minds ability to see the wondrous sweetness of our brother Christ.
Even with our regeneration, our inner corruptions cause our vision to become insistently muddied toward capturing Him in our minds for the full worth of His majesty.
The christian fight is the fight to keep our vision firmly planted on the center and cause of our hope.
O’, how this world so readily captures our affections and allegiances from our Lord.
Yet we continue still, day by day, from glory to glory, to lay hold of our Masters cloak and fight not to let go.
How worthy is He, yes, how worthy.
So deserving of every shred of our love and desires, yet, we find in us still this holy war.
This constant, wretched battle with the rotting corpse of our old man and nature.
We fight though.
By God, we fight.
We fight to see Him with these fallen eyes.
Fallen eyes which, seemingly, are utterly incapable of real sight.
“Our paradox: always a sinner/always righteous, always incomplete/always complete, always empty/always full, always poor/always rich.”
Why so fearful, O’ one of Christ?
Why so dejected and beaten down?
Do you not know, timid soul, that your Master has released you from your cage?
You go about all your day waiting for your loving Lord to become hard and cruel to your tender conscience.
You are FREE!
The rusty doors of your cell have been swung wide, nay, they have been utterly destroyed!
Do not cower in the corner of your prison place which can no longer hold you…it no longer has power to bind you.
As a timid dog might refuse to come out of its cage when its master releases it, you but lie in there doubting your Kings good will toward you.
If you only knew of your Masters great love for you now.
A love which has burst your chains of depression and gloom, setting you entirely at liberty to now bathe in His glorious favor toward you.
Drink in now your Masters sweet love and tender mercies toward you know and live!
I say again, you are free.
Do not again enslave yourself to your former masters harsh burdens but mount up on eagle’s wings.
You are free.
