Some Strong Language About Sanctification and Sin

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What does it mean to be sanctified? What’s supposed to happen to the sin in your life? As I’ve been meditating on that subject—wondering to what extent Scripture describes sanctification as a process, or as an event, or as both—I noticed some of the verbs that Paul uses to describe what has happened, or what should happen, to the sin in your life. You should “put off” the old man (Eph
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How to Come Back from Carnality (James 4)

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How does a backslidden believer come back into fellowship with God? James 4 gives sound instruction.  In vv 1-5, James shines the light on some areas of sin in the lives of these believers. They were engaged in:  Quarrels and conflicts (vv 1, 2)  Fleshly pleasures (v 1)  Lust (v 2)  Murder (v 2)  Envy
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We All Stumble — James 2:10; 3:2; 4:17

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The idea that James teaches the necessity of good works to be eternally saved comes up against a very strong objection: James says that absolutely no one is qualified to be saved on the basis of their works. On the one hand, James emphasizes that we all sin. For we all stumble in many ways
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Deadly Sin — James 1:15

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My cousin died last week. He took his own life. In prison. He’s my third cousin to die by suicide. I never knew him. I just found out about him a year ago. As you might guess, my extended family is very broken. We all grew up without God, and the effects of that are
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