Category: PASSION Collections

What God Hates, Part 2

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Tim Challies recently finished an excellent series on eight things God hates.  In Challies’ words:

The God who loves must also hate. The God who loves all that is good and pure and holy must hate all that is evil and defiled and perverse. 

Last week I provided links to the first four posts.  Below are links to the final four.  Again I encourage you to take the time to read them, and examine your life.  Where do you see these tendencies in your life?  For which of these might you need to repent and find forgiveness in the sacrifice of our Savior?

God Hates Deceit

God Hates Pride

God Hates Evil Thoughts

God Hates Wicked People

 

Passion Points

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Here are some good posts for your weekend reading:

4 Times In Life You Should Expect To Face Temptation – Tim Challies

How to Fight for Faith in the Dark: Three Lessons for Depression – Stephen Altrogge (DG)

3 Reasons We’re Addicted to Digital Distraction – Tony Reinke (Crossway)

An Exercise in Friendship – Tim Chester

Hope you have a great Lord’s Day!

 

What God Hates

On By BrianIn Idolatry, PASSION Collections

Tim Challies recently finished an excellent series on eight things God hates.  In Challies’ words:

The God who loves must also hate. The God who loves all that is good and pure and holy must hate all that is evil and defiled and perverse. 

If we are going to love God, we must hate what he hates.  If we are going to love people, we must hate what God hates since these things that he hates are also hurtful to people.

So below are links to the first four.  I encourage you to take the time to read them, and examine your life.  Where do you see these tendencies in your life?  For which of these might you need to repent and find forgiveness in the sacrifice of our Savior?

God Hates Idolatry

God Hates Sexual Immorality

God Hates Injustice

God Hates Hypocrisy

Passion Points

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Here are some helpful posts for your Easter weekend:

A Savior Stepped Forward – Greg Morse (DG)

Why We Call the Worst Friday ‘Good’ – David Mathis (DG)

6 Things Christ Does With Your Sin – Jared Wilson

Waiting on Saturday for Sunday’s Redemption – Kelly Mott (TGC)

9 Things You Need to Know about the Resurrection – Kevin Carson

Split Rocks, Open Tombs, Raised Bodies – John Piper (DG)

Hope you have a great Resurrection Sunday!

Passion Week Collection

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Here are some good posts related to the final week of Jesus (prior to the resurrection!):

Easter Week in Real Time – Russ Ramsey (TGC)

That Dreadful Cup and Our Faithful Savior – Erik Raymond

A Guide to the Entire Cast of Characters During Jesus’s Final Week – Justin Taylor

Are We Keeping the Main Thing the Main Thing? – Kevin DeYoung

Passion Points

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Here are some good posts for your weekend and beyond:

Why Devotional Bible Reading Is Good Bible Reading – Dane Ortlund (Crossway)
That’s reading the Bible devotionally—when you come to the Bible and say, “Okay, what is here that needs to change me and mess with me, to tweak me and to correct me, to lead me more clearly and more deeply into communing with God?”

How to Mortify Sin – Sinclair Ferguson (Ligonier)
Like Olympic long jumpers, we will not succeed unless we go back from the point of action to a point from which we can gain energy for the strenuous effort of dealing with sin.

5.5 Hours of Teaching through the Letter to the Galatians – via Justin Taylor
Here are the videos from the expository plenaries at the Gospel Coalition National Conference (April 3-5, 2017) in Indianapolis, with the theme of “No Other Gospel.”

‘One Anothers’ I Can’t Find in the New Testament – Ray Ortlund
It is also striking to notice the “one anothers” that do not appear there.  For example, sanctify one another, humble one another, scrutinize one another, pressure one another, embarrass one another, corner one another, interrupt one another, defeat one another, sacrifice one another, shame one another, marginalize one another, exclude one another, judge one another, run one another’s lives, confess one another’s sins . . . .

Hope you have a great Lord’s Day practicing the real “one anothers” and communing together with our great God!

Passion Points

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Here are some good posts for your weekend reading:

Enjoy Your Prayer Life – Michael Reeves (EM)
In one sense your prayer life is disgustingly revealing. Your prayer life reveals how much you really want communion with God and how much you really depend on him.

Why You Can’t See Your Biggest Flaws – Tim Keller (TGC)
By definition the sins to which you are most blind, that you make the most excuses for, and that you usually minimize—are the ones that most have you in their grip.

8 Ways God Works Suffering for Our Good – Tim Challies
Suffering never comes our way apart from the purpose and providence of God and for that reason, suffering is always significant, never meaningless. Here are some ways that God brings good from our suffering.

Why the Church Needs Teens and Teens Need the Church – Jaquelle Crowe (Crossway)
All Christians are called to live in community with God’s people. All Christians are called to serve other members of God’s people, to love them, to be held accountable by them, to be taught by them. And teenagers—of all God’s people—need that so much.

Hope you have a great Lord’s Day!

Current

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So Christians made The Shack by Wm. Paul Young a bestseller.  This despite serious doctrinal concerns suggested in the book.  But it was just fiction, you say.  Now Young has written a new non-fiction book which removes any doubt of his heretical views.  Plus a review of his second book Eve, and a response to one of his unbiblical ideas.

What Does The Shack Really Teach? “Lies We Believe About God” Tells Us – Tim Challies

Unshackled: The god of WM. Paul Young – David Steele

Eve – Tim Challies

Scandalized by the Substitute: A Response to Young and Gungor – Owen Strachan (TGC)