#professing

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And just like that, my first term teaching is over

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Trying to prepare to tell my first year students how to write an essay based on a decade of essay writing experience and realising that I simply will never be able to distill all of my thoughts into a slideshow or necessarily even impart it. It ultimately takes practice and that's what this is for. But I somehow wish that I could teach them what I wanted to be taught, as if their desires and interests are exactly the same as mine.

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The Bible doesn’t have a lot say about ___________

by Jon Dykstra | Into this blank liberals will insert terms such as “homosexuality” or “creation” or “gender” and, as Douglas Wilson has noted, they’ll make this claim because they are the sort of liberal that still professes God’s Word as authoritative, and they know that if the Bible does speak to their cause, then they really should listen. But they don’t want to so they pretend God has not spoken...

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Feel the Importance of Your Sins Forgiven

by J.C. Ryle

Do you feel anything of the importance of being forgiven? Then, in the name of God, I call upon you to encourage that feeling more and more. This is the point to which we desire to bring all people’s souls.

We want you to understand that religion does not consist in professing certain opinions, and performing certain outward duties, and going through certain outward forms. It consists in being reconciled to God, and enjoying peace with Him. It consists in having our sins cleansed away, and knowing that they are cleansed. It consists in being brought back into friendship with the King of kings, and living in the sunshine of that friendship.

Do not listen to those who are inclined to persuade you that if you only “go to church” regularly you will go to heaven. Settle it rather in your mind, that true saving religion, such as the Bible teaches, is another kind of thing altogether. The very foundation of real Christianity is to know that you have many sins, and deserve hell – and to feel the importance of having these sins cleansed away, in order that you may go to heaven.

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When a professing Christian coolly tells me that he has got beyond such hymns as Just As I Am, and that they are ‘below his present experience’, though they suited him when he first took up Christianity, I must think his soul is in a very unhealthy state!

J.C. Ryle

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"On Being a Professor," by Hans Ostrom