Today marks the seventh step along John Wesley’s “Path of Salvation” which we have been exploring in the course of this sermon series on “the basics of the Christian faith.” We started at “Original Sin,” then passed the milestones of “Prevenient Grace,” “Repentance,” “Justification,” “New Birth,” “and “Assurance.” Today we are nearing the destination of…
The year was 1505. A young man was traveling from his home to the university at Erfurt, Germany, where he was studying to become a lawyer. To an outside observer, his life was perfect. But in his heart, he felt a restlessness, and an aching void. He knew that his relationship with God was not…
When the LORD God made the heavens and the earth,.. God formed a man’s body from the dust of the ground and breathed into it the breath of life. And the man became a living person. Then the LORD God planted a garden in Eden… At the center of the garden he placed the tree…
21-22 But now God has shown us a different way to heaven—not by “being good enough” and trying to keep his laws, but by a new way (though not new, really, for the Scriptures told about it long ago). Now God says he will accept and acquit us—declare us “not guilty”—if we trust Jesus Christ…