#personal holiness

Redemption Through His Blood

The movement of contemporary art has been away from beauty and goodness and toward ugliness and offense. Pop culture has followed suit—with music, movies, and television constantly baiting censors and looking for new ways to scandalize audiences… The innovation of culture-making used to be constructive: creating new ways to build and beautify. But now, cultural innovation is mostly destructive: dreaming up new ways to trash, demolish, destabilize, pervert, and provoke, especially as it pertains to established orthodoxies or anything “sacred.” This is the type of culture Philip Rieff calls “third world”: a culture that “persists independent of all sacred orders,” where “there is no truth, only rhetorics of self-interest.” ~ Brett McCracken

10 Quotes From “Cultivation Of Christian Character” J. Oswald Sanders has given us a short but powerfully effective book for developing more Christlikeness in each and every Christian.

18 Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain course of life received by tradition from your fathers; 19 But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: 20 Who verily was fore-ordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifested in these last times for you, 21 Who by him do believe in God, that raised him from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God. — 1 Peter 1:18-21 | Webster's Bible Translation (WBT) The Holy Bible; Webster’s Bible Translation by Noah Webster, a revision of the King James Bible, Published in 1833 is in the public domain. Cross References: Exodus 12:5; Leviticus 1:10; Isaiah 44:22; Isaiah 52:3; Matthew 25:34; Acts 2:23; John 17:5; John 17:24

Scott Hubbard

Don’t Throw Out The Message An important reminder—Don’t throw out the message because of the messenger. “Beware of seeking out inconsistencies in God’s children in order to evade obeying God’s message yourself.