By Elizabeth Prata A few days ago I’d written an essay about how to tell if you are growing, listing some markers of sanctification. (Here). I kept thinking about it. Meanwhile I kept listeni…
By Elizabeth Prata How do we know we’re growing in Christ? How do we know the Holy Spirit is at work in us? Firstly, because if you’re genuinely saved, you know He is because He said He…
The recent three posts are about the great mystery of godliness, God manifest in the flesh, especially as presented in 1 Timothy 3:15-16. This manifestation was first by the individual Jesus and is…
The prior post shows that the great mystery of godliness in 1 Timothy 3:16 includes God manifested in all His people. Today this is a preface for New Jerusalem, which will be the eternal manifestat…
Revive Our Hearts
Because Jesus has been and always will be perfectly faithful and true, we can live in His faithfulness and truth too.
One of the more profound texts in the New Testament is found in 1 Corinthians 6:11 – “And such were some of you…” Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves,…
Lisa Price
For those who do not die immediately following their confession of faith there is a process aspect to salvation. The fancy-pants-theological word for this process is “sanctification”. The Apostle P…
“Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her”(Ephesians 5:25). In Ephesians 5, Paul spoke about the need for us to walk in love. He warned the church against i…
By Elizabeth Prata I started a series in 2016 called #MemeHeresies. The name came from a sister named Jess Pickowicz who used it on Twitter (Now called X), she said I could use the name. I wrote th…
By Elizabeth Prata Sermons hit different people differently. Some say it was the best they’d ever heard, others say meh. It’s why I don’t usually post sermons claiming such things…
God is holy and New Jerusalem is “the holy city” (Rev. 21:2, 10). God is sanctifying us, making us holy, to qualify us to be members of this wonderful city. To be sanctified, to be made…
Galatians 2:20 describes the proper Christian, “I am crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but it is Christ who lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live…
By Elizabeth Prata For the love of Christ controls us, having concluded this, that one died for all, therefore all died; (2 Corinthians 5:14). Powerful. Have you ever thought about that before? Tha…
Scripture: Genesis 1:26-27: “Then God said, ‘Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky., over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground’.” God saw that all He had done, and it was good. It was very good. As we celebrate today, Labor Day, let’s focus on the good work of God. God worked. He created all that is around us and for us, to enjoy and to maintain. But it to
Watching shows or movies about zombies takes me back to watching horror flicks with my father. Late Saturday nights, we would stay up and laugh at the creative ridiculousness of such things as gian…
Last week, I shared some adapted content from a classic of Christian literature, Holiness by J.C. Ryle, on what it means to be holy. I want to follow that up with another question: What does it loo…
I recently read a classic of Christian literature, one that has now entered my list of favorites: Holiness by J.C. Ryle. This massive collection of Ryle’s papers on the subject is not casual readin…
This post was first published in January, 2014. —ed. You wouldn’t withhold food from a starving man. Nor would you deny air to a drowning child. Frankly, that kind of monstrous behavior is hard to imagine. But that’s effectively what many pastors and church leaders are guilty of today, as they withhold that which is
It’s a joy to watch new believers be baptized. It’s an important step, It’s a celebration, a public acknowledgement that they are now following Jesus. I’m concerned, though, that even among us Bapt…
New Jerusalem is named “the holy city” in Revelation 21:2, 10. In 1 Thessalonians 5:23 Paul prays that our whole being—spirit and soul and body—may be sanctified wholly. This is disposi…