I found these six ways of minimizing sin to be very instructive regarding gospel-centered sanctification/mortification of sin. Take a moment and examine your fight against sin, the ways you are prone to minimize sin, and develop an intentional strategy to renounce them. Defending I find it difficult to receive feedback about weaknesses or sin. When [...]
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Six Ways of Minimizing Sin
May 26, 2012The Trellis and the Vine on Gospel Centrality
May 23, 2012A couple of excerpts from the excellent book The Trellis and the Vine on the centrality of the gospel: “Throughout the world, the gospel is spreading, propagating, budding, flowering, bearing fruit. People hear it and by God’s mercy respond and are saved. But it does not stop there. Once the gospel is planted in someone’s life [...]
Life in Gospel Communities
May 22, 2012Fromt the Crowded House Network (Steve Timmis/Tim Chester), here is a great video of what life looks like in a gospel community. HT: Z
Annotations of Gospel Centrality: Colossians (Summary)
May 18, 2012I’m not finished with my blog series on annotations of gospel centrality, but I am finished with the book of Colossians. Here’s the blogposts from this book: » Colossians 1:6 » Colossians 1:21-23 » Colossians 1:28-29 » Colossians 2:6-7 » Colossians 2:17 » Colossians 3:1-4 » Colossians 3:5-15 » Colossians 3:16-17 I have attempted to [...]
Annotations of Gospel Centrality: Colossians 3:16-17
May 14, 201216 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God. 17 And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the [...]
Annotations of Gospel Centrality: Colossians 3:1-4
May 7, 20121 If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. 2 Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. 3 For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. [...]
Gospel-Centered Spiritual Formation: Spiritual Disciplines
May 4, 2012So far in this series, I have provided a little background, the triperspectival framework, and the role of gospel forms in the development of the diagram I created to illustrate what I’m calling gospel-centered spiritual formation. Role of Spiritual Disciplines in Gospel-Centered Formation Now we have come to the role of spiritual disciplines in gospel-centered [...]
If You’re God’s Child, Part 1
May 3, 2012Last year, I compiled a series of 36 blogposts based on tweets from Scotty Smith on “Signs You’re Growing in Grace.” I, and I know countless others, were greatly encouraged in the gospel by those daily tweets. Another person who brings the gospel to bear regularly on twitter is Paul Tripp. He has recently begun [...]
Annotations of Gospel Centrality: Colossians 2:17
May 2, 2012“These are a shadow of the things to come, but the substance belongs to Christ.” Colossians 2:17 The interpretive grid through which we properly understand the world is the gospel of Jesus Christ. Everything was created by Jesus and for Jesus, and in Jesus is everything sustained (Col. 1:16-17). The world has always sought for [...]
Annotations of Gospel Centrality: Colossians 2:6-7
April 28, 20126 Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him, 7 rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving. Colossians 2:6-7 Growing up, I was trained to think the way Christians grow is from experience to experience. Church services were the [...]
Gospel-Centered Spiritual Formation: The Gospel Forms
April 26, 2012At the conclusion of my last post about the triperspectival framework, I mentioned the role of gospel “forms” in the diagram I created to explain gospel-centered spiritual formation. Before I jump into the perspectives individually, I want to explain what I mean by gospel forms and how those forms overlap to give greater gospel focus [...]
Annotations of Gospel Centrality: Colossians 1:28-29
April 25, 201228 Him we proclaim, warning everyone and teaching everyone with all wisdom, that we may present everyone mature in Christ. 29 For this I toil, struggling with all his energy that he powerfully works within me. Colossians 1:28-29 God never intended for us to move beyond the gospel. This is clear in numerous places in [...]
Gospel-Centered Spiritual Formation: The Triperspectival Framework
April 25, 2012In my first post, I provided a little background to the development of this paradigm I’ve created, called gospel-centered spiritual formation. I argued that the literature on spiritual disciplines largely does not factor in the gospel, and gospel-centered literature has yet to address the role of spiritual disciplines in the life of a gospel-centered Christian. [...]
Gospel-Centered Spiritual Formation: A Little Background
April 23, 2012I never heard about spiritual disciplines until I took a class on it while in college. In those early years of my spiritual development, I was directed to books like Richard Foster’s Celebration of Discipline, Donald Whitney’s Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life, and Dallas Willard’s The Spirit of the Disciplines. As a lifelong athlete training [...]
Annotations of Gospel Centrality: Colossians 1:21-23
April 22, 201221 And you, who once were alienated and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds, 22 he has now reconciled in his body of flesh by his death, in order to present you holy and blameless and above reproach before him, 23 if indeed you continue in the faith, stable and steadfast, not shifting from the [...]
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