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Tag Archives: assurance
You know you know God as Father when you cry to him in suffering, “Father!”
It’s easy to call God “Father” in happy, blue sky days. When life falls apart and the sky turns dark, then what do you do? Here’s a brilliant concluding sermon moment by Alistair Begg on suffering and belief:
Posted in Growing Christians
Tagged Abba Father, Alistair Begg, assurance, Cry for mercy, Prayer, Suffering
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Transforming Grace Top 10 (2010-2011)
I’ve been blogging for over three years now. I still enjoy the discipline of trying to crystallise vague thoughts or jotting down useful stuff I’ve read. I also enjoy seeing what people are reading and sharing. This is this year’s … Continue reading
9 marks of our being Christ’s true bride.
Many Christians struggle with the question of assurance. They look at their deeds, actions, performance, thought life and ask, “Am I really a Christian?” Ebenezer Erskine gives 9 Marks of true faith, and they are all centred on Christ. The … Continue reading
Posted in Means of Grace
Tagged assurance, Christ centered, Christ centered life, Christ centred, Christian assurance, Ebenezer Erskine
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Ebenezer Erskine on neonomians
When grace and works are mixed, believers look at their walk, witness and works and say “I am such a poor, worthless, useless creature, that I am afraid I am none of them [a vessel in the house of God].” … Continue reading
Posted in Grace and Works
Tagged assurance, Doubt, Ebenezer Erskine, faith, gospel and works, Grace and Works, Neonomian
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Ebenezer Erskine on assurance
Here’s a helpful extract from Ebenezer Erskine on assurance. How may I know if I be yet a vessel of mercy fitted by regenerating and sanctifying grace for the Master’s use? Hath God yet formed me for himself? Hath he … Continue reading
Posted in Grace and Works
Tagged assurance, Ebenezer Erskine, grace and law, Grace and Works, vessels of mercy, vessels of wrath
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Preaching wrath and grace
I find one of the most difficult areas of preaching and teaching about God is how to communicate his wrath and his grace so that sinners know God is primarily for us and not against us; that he wants what … Continue reading
Posted in Means of Grace
Tagged assurance, conversion, Ebenezer Erskine, God, Grace, Preaching, wrath
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Assurance of faith and assurance of sense
I posted yesterday on baptism as “an outward sign of an external reality.” This extract from Joel Beeke’s introduction to the Beauties of Ebenezer Erskine really helpfully distinguishes between the assurance of faith and the assurance of sense. On what … Continue reading
Posted in Grace and Works
Tagged anti-paedobaptism, assurance, Baptism, believers baptism, paedobaptism
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Puritan emotion, assurance and desertion
I’ve heard it said that the Puritans put too much emphasis on felt faith as the basis of assurance. This may be true and there is certainly evidence in the work of Thomas Watson of a high emphasis on experiential … Continue reading
Posted in Means of Grace
Tagged adoption, assurance, Beatitudes, Chidren of God, Cross of Christ, Desertion, puritan assurance, Thomas Watson
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Thomas Schreiner on warning passages and perseverance
Yesterday I went to the annual Oak Hill school of theology where Tom Schreiner was speaking on the nature of warning passages in the New Testament. His four accessible and pastorally applied lectures were entitled: > How to understand the … Continue reading