La meditación bíblica es la meditación sobre la Biblia

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¿Qué significa meditar? ¿Y como es la meditación cristiana? A través de los siglos, formas de meditación no bíblicas se han prestado de otras tradiciones religiosas, tales como el hinduismo y el budismo. Peor aún, muchas de estas prácticas meditativas surgieron de–y asumieron–un evangelio de salvación por las obras. Y así, la meditación se convirtió
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Estar Seguro De Las Promesas

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Estaba hablando con un caballero presbiteriano, admirador de Gordon Clark y John Robbins, sobre como los calvinistas entendían la naturaleza de la fe. Cuando le pregunté su opinión sobre si pensaban que la seguridad era la esencia de la fe salvadora, dijo claramente que sí. “Después de todo, cuando Jesús prometió, ‘Voy y preparo un
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Biblical Meditation Is Meditation on the Bible

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What does it mean to meditate? And what does Christian meditation look like? Over the centuries, unbiblical forms of meditation have been borrowed from other religious traditions, such as Hinduism and Buddhism. Worse, many of these meditative practices grew out of, and assumed, a gospel of salvation by works, and so, meditation became yet another
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Errata: JOTGES (Spring 2020)

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Do you know what an author’s worst nightmare is—what keeps us up at night? Publishing mistakes. Spelling mistakes are embarrassing. Formatting mistakes are bad, too. But worst of all is printing a sentence that is the exact reverse of what you meant to say. I am mortified to say that I did that in my
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Assured of the Promises

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I was talking to a Presbyterian gentleman—a fellow admirer of Gordon Clark and John Robbins—about how Calvinists understood the nature of faith. When I asked his opinion as to whether they thought that assurance was of the essence of saving faith, he said they clearly did. “After all, when Jesus promised, ‘I go and prepare
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La imagen de Dios y gobernar con Cristo

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¿Qué es la imagen de Dios? He leído sobre justo casi cada teoría diferente que usted puede imaginar, tratando de identificar la naturaleza de la imagen de Dios. He visto argumentos en favor de simplemente ser consciente de sí mismo, o inteligente, o capaz de hablar, o de amar, o de poseer un alma, y
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Eternal Life Is Christocentric

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Free Grace theology should be thoroughly Christocentric, not least of all because eternal life itself is entirely Christocentric. What I mean is, eternal life is centered around Jesus. By contrast, how many religions are man-centered, works-centered, Mary-centered, saints-centered, money-centered, or even cult-leader-centered? But eternal life is about Jesus. How so? You are called to believe
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