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In his book, Gospel, J.D. Greear stated, “Gospel change is the Spirit of God using the story of God to make the beauty of God come alive in our hearts.” The beauty of the gospel of Jesus Christ is that it declares us righteous. It is not an invitation to make ourselves righteous through a number of steps or religious practices. In other words, we do not live for God in order to be righteous but instead we live for God because He has declared us righteous (Rom. 1:17). Greear emphasized that ...
I was just thinking as I’ve pondered a number of subjects this past weekend ,that we humans take so much for granted. Let’s consider the subject of faith.
I preached my first sermon 59 years ago at Central Baptist Church in Ashdown, and the subject was “Faith Without Works is Dead.”The text was James 2:17-18. However, in attempting to make the sermon long enough, I preached from Genesis to...