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Articles In This Series:
- Paul
- Being and Calling
- The Gospel of God
- The Holy Scriptures
- A Long Waiting
- True Beyond Measure
- Gospel Borders
- A Power Not Our Own
- A Communion of Saints
- Rooted
- Trees Walking
- A Debtor
- Unashamed of the Gospel
- Righteousness Comes from God
- Comes the Mystery
- A Stirring of Wonder
- A Deepening Dark
- Life His Love Has Made
- Learning Him – Living Him
- Love’s Resonance
- A Story Without Corners
- Sometimes We Breathe Unheeding
- Things Are as They Are
- That Day
- That Unblinking Eye
- Beware the Leaven
- The Oracles of God
- The Faithfulness of God
- Our Redeemer Lives!
- Under Sin
- That Every Mouth May be Stopped
- But Now …
- In Christ Alone
- Glorious Grace
- The Mercy Seat
- Perspective
- Through Faith
- No Boasting
- No Distinctions
- The Stranger
- Famine
- Abundance
- Living for the Long Haul
- Count the Stars
- A One-Sided Covenant
- The Offspring of Human Initiative
- Keeping Covenant
- Rumors of Angels
- Pure Gift
- The Accounting
- True Faith
- Being Justified … We Have …
- The Press
- Love Beyond Degree
- Reasoning From Faith
- Through One Man
- A New Life and a New Land
- Learning to Love on Our Knees
- Made to Grow Together
- The Vine Life
- The Power of Obedience
- Living Into Being
- Sin Can’t Tell You How to Live
October 5, 2008
Taken From: Romans 2:17-29
Illustration by Grace Ellen Schiel
Beware the leaven of hypocrisy
that accumulates in
an unexamined life;
theoretical argument,
a confidence falsely held
that thinks you’re
on wonderful terms with yourself.
You must take heed, you
who confess the faith, lest
while you declare his words
you fail to live them
and misrepresent his holy name.
It is the mark of God on your heart
that makes you genuine, chosen,
not religion;
not family lineage
not a kosher kitchen,
but the life of God
in the soul, the
presence of the Holy Ghost,
evident in gusts of grace;
the new heart within
the clean, the pure.
The praise of God rather than men.
DAS
