What is holiness anyway? From dictionary.com:
- 1. the quality or state of being holy; sanctity
- a title of the pope
How about sanctity?
- “holiness…” (This isn’t getting us very far.)
Palmer St. Podcast: Becoming Holy
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Middle Knowledge: One Means of Balancing Our Faith and God’s Election
In 2 Thessalonians 2:13 it says that “God from the beginning chose you for salvation through … belief in the truth.” People often find it difficult to reconcile these two things – God’s choosing us and our believing the truth. One way proposed out of the dilemma is to consider the various types of knowledge entailed in God’s omniscience. Middle knowledge in particular seems relevant to this question. This is a brief attempt to explain it.
Palmer St. Podcast: Galatians 2:11-21
Grace has been an important issue in the church since the earliest days of the church. Today we’ll read of an incident that happened in Antioch where Paul was serving. We’ll want to learn from it if we’re going to be able to show the same kind of grace toward others that God has already shown us. Grace is also important as the means by which we continue our Christian growth.
Palmer St. Podcast: Galatians 1:11-24
Paul was transformed by meeting Jesus. He went from persecutor of the church to the most ardent spokesman for Christ and explainer of Christian doctrine. This is something like the big bad wolf not just being stopped from blowing down houses, but actually becoming the fourth little pig – and then becoming the world’s foremost scholar and chief defender of piggishness. The Gospel of Jesus Christ is real; it must produce real changes in the lives of those who believe it.
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