Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling; for it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure. We get so caught up in our […]
Forcing yourself to run the race, part 02
Sometimes we are so busy disagreeing with one another that we forget how often we give very similar sounding advice or how often we handle a given situation in very similar ways. I have before argued for the Orthodox view of faith and works, but this time, I would rather look at how often we […]
Forcing yourself to run the race, part 01
One of the problems with a certain type of Christian theology is that it is so afraid that we might try to earn our salvation that it essentially destroys growing in holiness. At the other end is a certain type of Christian theology that almost measures its every act to see whether the person is […]
