“You are the salt of the earth, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled under people’s feet.
“You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden. 15 Nor do people [...]
Archive for April, 2009
In Christ You Are Salt and Light
Posted in In Christ on April 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »
In Christ You Are the Body
Posted in In Christ on April 23, 2009 | 1 Comment »
For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free – and all were made to drink of one Spirit. (1 [...]
In Christ You Are Dead to Sin
Posted in In Christ on April 20, 2009 | 1 Comment »
So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus. (Romans 6:11)
Life and death. It’s a theme which runs throughout Scripture. The opening chapters of Genesis speak of God’s creation of life itself, followed by the entrance of death into the world at the fall of man into sin. [...]
In Christ You Are Holy
Posted in In Christ on April 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance, but as he who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, since it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.” (1 Peter 1:14-16)
When we think of holy, we think of God. And, when [...]
In Christ You Are Blessed
Posted in In Christ on April 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. (Ephesians 1:3-4)
What is a blessing, and what does [...]
In Christ You Are Justified
Posted in In Christ on April 10, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. (Romans 5:1)
Martin Luther wanted peace. He tried everything to attain it. He slept on the floor, he prostrated himself before God in prayer for hours, he went without food, he even climbed a staircase in Rome on [...]
In Christ You Are A New Creation
Posted in In Christ on April 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. (2 Corinthians 5:17)
Peter Allen once wrote a song entitled Everything Old is New Again. So it is with the people of God. Paul speaks of “our old self” or “the old man” (Romans 6:6; Ephesians [...]
In Christ You Are Chosen
Posted in In Christ on April 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. (1 Peter 2:9)
A.W. Pink once began a sermon by saying, “I am going to speak tonight on one of [...]
