John Wycliffe on Holiness
Manmade religion thrives because we are ignorant of God’s word. Religion tells us that repentance means “turn from sin,” so we get busy turning from sin. Religion tells [...]
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Watch Out for the Holiness Preachers
As a teenager, I didn’t need anybody to tell me what to do. As an adult, I wish somebody would. Life is big and confusing. It’s full of anxiety, uncertainty, and [...]
The True Meaning of Holiness
When I was a teenager, I was involved in a band with some church friends. There were four of us in the band and I played the keyboard. One day, I got in an argument with the [...]
How to be Holy
Jesus is the only one of us who lived undamaged by sin. He walked among the wreckage of fallen humanity as a beacon of wholeness and health. Jesus knew no sin yet the writer [...]
The Whole Meaning of Holiness
One of the reasons why we don’t walk in the freedom that the gospel brings, is that we have changed the meaning of words. We have made beautiful words ugly and turned truth [...]
What Does it Mean to be One with the Lord?
Many Christians don’t know how good they’ve got it. In our union with Christ he has blessed us by giving us every spiritual blessing in the heavenly world. [...]
If We’re Holy, Why Does God Call Us to be Holy? (1 Peter 1:15)
Here’s a question grace preachers hear a lot: “If we are already holy, then why does God call us to be holy?” Answer: He’s calling us to be who we truly are. He is [...]
Beware “Practical Holiness”
Life under the old covenant was so much simpler than the free and confusing world of grace. Back then if you wanted to stay on the straight and narrow, you just had to keep [...]
Why Was the Seventh Day Holy?
When God made the heavens and the earth, everything he did was good. And yet none of the six days of creation was considered holy. And God blessed the seventh day and made it [...]
What is Holiness? (It’s Better Than You Think!)
“Holiness is avoiding sin. It’s being set apart from the world and staying undefiled.” Or so we’ve been told. The problem with defining holiness like this is that it [...]
7 Useless Definitions of Holiness
An old tale is told about a group of blind men who encounter an elephant for the first time. The first blind man man touches the leg and concludes, “Elephants are like [...]
Escape to Reality 