Posts tagged gospels
A Picture of Prevailing Prayer

Jon Bloom Bartimaeus teaches us something very important about prayer. This story of Bartimaeus (Mark 10:46–52) is a picture of prevailing prayer, not in its time scale, but in its dynamics. Real prayer begins with real desire, often with real desperation...

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Jesus, Friend of Sinners: But How?

Kevin DeYoung As precious as this truth is—that Jesus is a friend of sinners—it, like every other precious truth in the Bible, needs to be safeguarded against doctrinal and ethical error. It is all too easy, and amazingly common, for Christians (or non-Christians) to take the general truth that Jesus was a friend of sinners and twist it all out of biblical recognition...

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