There was once a dying man who had no time to do any of it. No confession to a priest, no Communion, no pilgrimage, no works of mercy. He was a criminal nailed to a cross, and all he could do was ask Jesus to remember him. And Jesus answered him, “Truly, I say to... Continue Reading

Week after week, the Spirit of Christ does His quiet work, and one day you look back and realize you are not who you were. Why would God work this way? Paul answers: “But we have this treasure in jars of clay, to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us”... Continue Reading

On the doctrine of justification, the doctrine of how a sinner is made right with God, two anathemas now stand in the historical record, pointing in opposite directions.   In the year 2000, Rome’s doctrinal office, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, published a declaration called Dominus Iesus. It was signed by Cardinal... Continue Reading

The One who promises never to cast you out is the One who “himself bore our sins in his body on the tree” (1 Peter 2:24), and who rose again on the third day. He does not throw away those He died to save. When your own heart will not stop accusing you, the apostle... Continue Reading

Many of those who argue against the doctrines of grace today are not Arminians and do not claim to be. Their position denies the inability that Calvinists and Arminians alike have always confessed, and on that point it conflicts with what the church insisted upon at Orange in 529, that the beginning of faith requires... Continue Reading