Explores who humanity is in Christ and how union, adoption, belonging, and inheritance reshape self-understanding.
1 John 4:18
We are either operating from the fear of punishment that keeps us disconnected from the Father and enslaved to our old, orphan identity and the punishment paradigm (Paul calls it the “flesh”), or we are operating from loving connection...
2 Cor. 3:18; 2 Pet. 1:4
THE FULLNESS OF HUMANITY: DIVINIZATION As I reviewed Wesley’s case with my mentor Ron Dart, he reminded me of a fourth aspect of our Christian inheritance: “deification” (also known as “divinization” or “theosis”). What is included in the...
Jesus wasn’t concerned with defending a gospel. He was too busy revealing the Gospel—His Father’s always-good love. He lived miraculously, died selflessly, and rose powerfully, all so we might be restored back to our place in the family—as...
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Scripture does not say that you are in the process of dying to your old nature. It says it has already happened. "Our old self was crucified with Him" (Romans 6:6). That is not a goal to pursue. That is a reality to believe. Over and over...
If your identity has actually changed, then failure cannot define you anymore. It can only contradict who you are. This is why the primary issue is not behavior. It is identity. Sin has been reduced to something we do, but in Scripture, it...