There are many different websites that offer reading plans to read the Bible in a year. Here is a really good one: Read the KJV Bible in One Year. For today, why don't you read along with me chapters 1-3 in Ephesians.
Special verses:
"According
as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world,
that we should be holy and without blame before him in love: Having predestinated
us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself,
according to the good pleasure of his will..." - Ephesians 1:4,5
"In whom also we
have obtained an inheritance , being predestinated according to the
purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own
will..." - Ephesians 1:11
"And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;
Wherein in time
past ye walked according to the course of this world, according
to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh
in the children of disobedience:
Among whom also we
all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our
flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and
were by nature the children of wrath, even as others." - Ephesians 2:1-3
"For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
Not of works, lest any man should boast .
For we are his
workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which
God hath before ordained that we should walk in them." - Ephesians 2:8-10
Note: If you
have a reading disability that makes it difficult or impossible to read
along with me this year, please consider going to Biblegateway.com and listening to the Bible. This is a great site with many resources, one of which is an audio version of the Bible Daily.
Recommended reading:
Faith Alone: An Evangelical Doctrine of Justification by Faith by R.C. Sproul
Recommended sermon:
Total Depravity, by Rev. Paul den Butter
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Thursday, March 10, 2016
Tuesday, December 2, 2014
Rick Warren Calls For Christians To Unite With Catholics
Rick Warren Calls For Christians To Unite With Catholics - christiannews.net
Excerpt from this article:
"In a new video, megachurch leader and author Rick Warren is calling for Christians to unite with Roman Catholics and 'Pope Francis,' who Warren recently referred to as the 'Holy Father'—a move that is raising concerns among Christians nationwide and is resulting in calls for Warren to repent.
Warren made the comments following his visit to the Vatican last month, where he spoke at an interfaith conference on the 'Complementarity of Man and Woman.' 'We have far more in common than what divides us,' he said in the two-minute video released by the Catholic News Service on Wednesday, described as being an outline for 'an ecumenical vision for Catholics and Protestants to work together to defend the sanctity of life, sex and marriage.'”
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What divides the Church of our Lord Jesus from that of the Roman Catholics is not not our views on Mary, or the Mass, or Purgatory, or a lot of other doctrines, which the Reformer Martin Luther would call "Trifles, rather than issues." No, what separates us is the gospel. There is only one gospel, and Rome doesn't have it.
R.C. Sproul put it this way in his wonderful book, Faith Alone: An Evangelical Doctrine of Justification by Faith:
"Does saving faith require a trust in the righteousness of Christ alone as the grounds of our justification? Or may a person have a different view of the gospel and still be a Christian?"
"The Reformation was waged, not over the issue of justification by faith, but over the issue of justification by faith alone. It was the Sola of Sola Fide that was the central point of dispute."
" Agreement between Rome and Evangelicals can be reached in several ways. One is for Evangelicals to abandon their historic position of Sola Fide. A second is for Rome to adopt Sola Fide as its official doctrine. The third is for agreement to be reached that Sola Fide is not essential to the gospel."
And Dr. Michael Horton writes in the introduction to the above book:
"Has Rome changed? If fact, it has not. The Vatican documents, as well as The New Catechism of the Catholic Church, re-invoke the theological position of the Council of Trent, condemning the gospel of justification by an imputed righteousness. If it is not Rome that has altered its position in favor of the gospel, then it must be the other partner that has moved from its earlier position."
The world is very fortunate that Rick Warren was not around 500 years ago. No doubt, he would not have agreed with Charles Spurgeon (1834-1892) who wrote:
"It is today as it was in the Reformers’ days. Decision is needed. Here is the day for the man, where is the man for the day? We who have had the gospel passed to us by martyr hands dare not trifle with it, nor sit by and hear it denied by traitors, who pretend to love it, but inwardly abhor every line of it….Look you, sirs, there are ages yet to come. If the Lord does not speedily appear, there will come another generation, and another, and all these generations will be tainted and injured if we are not faithful to God and to His truth today. We have come to a turning-point in the road. If we turn to the right, mayhap our children and our children’s children will go that way; but if we turn to the left, generations yet unborn will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God and His Word." (From The Forgotten Spurgeon, by Iain Murray
Recommended reading:
Words of Wisdom From A Catholic Newspaper (my post)
Faith Alone: An Evangelical Doctrine of Justification by Faith, by R. C. Sproul
What Is The Gospel? (my post)
Recommended sermon:
Total Depravity, by Rev. Paul Den Butter
Excerpt from this article:
"In a new video, megachurch leader and author Rick Warren is calling for Christians to unite with Roman Catholics and 'Pope Francis,' who Warren recently referred to as the 'Holy Father'—a move that is raising concerns among Christians nationwide and is resulting in calls for Warren to repent.
Warren made the comments following his visit to the Vatican last month, where he spoke at an interfaith conference on the 'Complementarity of Man and Woman.' 'We have far more in common than what divides us,' he said in the two-minute video released by the Catholic News Service on Wednesday, described as being an outline for 'an ecumenical vision for Catholics and Protestants to work together to defend the sanctity of life, sex and marriage.'”
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What divides the Church of our Lord Jesus from that of the Roman Catholics is not not our views on Mary, or the Mass, or Purgatory, or a lot of other doctrines, which the Reformer Martin Luther would call "Trifles, rather than issues." No, what separates us is the gospel. There is only one gospel, and Rome doesn't have it.
R.C. Sproul put it this way in his wonderful book, Faith Alone: An Evangelical Doctrine of Justification by Faith:
"Does saving faith require a trust in the righteousness of Christ alone as the grounds of our justification? Or may a person have a different view of the gospel and still be a Christian?"
"The Reformation was waged, not over the issue of justification by faith, but over the issue of justification by faith alone. It was the Sola of Sola Fide that was the central point of dispute."
" Agreement between Rome and Evangelicals can be reached in several ways. One is for Evangelicals to abandon their historic position of Sola Fide. A second is for Rome to adopt Sola Fide as its official doctrine. The third is for agreement to be reached that Sola Fide is not essential to the gospel."
And Dr. Michael Horton writes in the introduction to the above book:
"Has Rome changed? If fact, it has not. The Vatican documents, as well as The New Catechism of the Catholic Church, re-invoke the theological position of the Council of Trent, condemning the gospel of justification by an imputed righteousness. If it is not Rome that has altered its position in favor of the gospel, then it must be the other partner that has moved from its earlier position."
The world is very fortunate that Rick Warren was not around 500 years ago. No doubt, he would not have agreed with Charles Spurgeon (1834-1892) who wrote:
"It is today as it was in the Reformers’ days. Decision is needed. Here is the day for the man, where is the man for the day? We who have had the gospel passed to us by martyr hands dare not trifle with it, nor sit by and hear it denied by traitors, who pretend to love it, but inwardly abhor every line of it….Look you, sirs, there are ages yet to come. If the Lord does not speedily appear, there will come another generation, and another, and all these generations will be tainted and injured if we are not faithful to God and to His truth today. We have come to a turning-point in the road. If we turn to the right, mayhap our children and our children’s children will go that way; but if we turn to the left, generations yet unborn will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God and His Word." (From The Forgotten Spurgeon, by Iain Murray
Recommended reading:
Words of Wisdom From A Catholic Newspaper (my post)
Faith Alone: An Evangelical Doctrine of Justification by Faith, by R. C. Sproul
What Is The Gospel? (my post)
Recommended sermon:
Total Depravity, by Rev. Paul Den Butter
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