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Riches in Christ: Meditations on Eph. 1:3-14

My last three Twitter updates:

Grateful for God’s glorious grace (Eph 1:6), which is my only hope and what should receive my praise and glory.
Grateful for God’s predestination of me, a personal act done in love (not cold & Impersonal) as He adopted me as His son (Eph 1:4-5).
Eph. 1:3-14: the most power-packed sentence in the [...]

Killing sin with the Sword

John Piper notes that swords are for killing:
The word of God is the sword of the Spirit. The Sword is for putting to death. And by the Spirit we put to death our sinful deeds. So I conclude that the way we kill our sins is with the Spirit’s sword, the word of God.
All temptations [...]