Speak With Conviction
Ran across this at JD Greear’s blog, who ran across it at Justin Taylor’s blog (both are really good sites by the way).
Sometimes guilty as charged. And, this is funny stuff.
Typography from Ronnie Bruce on Vimeo.
Archive for the ‘It's Simple’Category
It’s Simple: God Is Making Me Like Jesus
The simple truth of Romans 8:28-29 is so true. Whether good or bad, whatever happens to me is to make me like Jesus. Bad things should cause me to trust Him more. Good things should make me thankful. He is transforming us. His purpose isn’t to make life easy for us, and we get tripped up on that often. Wouldn’t it be great if we could see with the perspective that God sees with? He knows that the end result if we will trust Him is that we will have greater faith and greater character.
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03 2009
It’s Simple: The Gospel Is The Foundation
There are times when I overcomplicate faith and what it’s all about. So I want to post a few thoughts God keeps bringing me back to over the last few weeks. Rather than turning this into a series of posts, I’m going to start a category called It’s Simple. There are lots of simple thoughts in my brain! So, I’ll just write about them at different times. Having a lot of posts called “It’s Simple” is kind of complicated, I guess, but oh well…
Let’s start with this one: The Gospel is the Foundation.
What is the gospel? The gospel is the good news that God sent Jesus to take the punishment for the sins of all mankind so that we could know Him on earth and spend eternity in heaven. We receive that eternal life by faith - trust that this good news is true.
When we understand this, it clears up so many of our questions.
- Why do bad things happen? Because there is sin in the world and it has consequences.
- Why do I feel empty? Because I was born with a void in my heart that only God can fill.
- What is my purpose? To spread the gospel by everything I do and say.
It doesn’t make life easy, but it does give us perspective.