Are there Prerequisites to Salvation?

A new book that I started reading is The Gospel Mystery of Sanctification by puritain Walter Marshall. I picked it up thinking that any book dealing with the subject of sanctification  powered by the Gospel must be a keeper. Of course I haven’t been disappointed in my expectations though I am still just in the [...]

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Quote of the Day #32 – Jerry Bridges

God does not forgive us because He wants to be lenient with us. He forgives us because His justice has been satisfied”
-Jerry Bridges (Respectable Sins)

“For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.” -2 Corinthians 5:21

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The Purpose of the Law

“There is no healing a man till the law has wounded him, no making alive till the law has slain him.”
-C. H. Spurgeon
Truly if we never look into the mirror of the law, we will never see the ugliness of sin, and thus never see the need to become cleansed.
“Therefore the Law has become [...]

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Quote of the Day #10

“How easily we fall into the trap of assuming that we remain justified only so long as there are grounds in our character for justification.” – Sinclair Ferguson

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