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Veteran pastor John MacArthur makes the case that Jesus' passion for his people is sanctification and encourages pastors to revolve their ministry around the increasing sanctification of their members through preaching and discipleship.

The Christian life is a process of growing in holiness, our natural response to the good news of our redemption in Christ. This kind of growth is gradual, and obstacles are plentiful. Thankfully, we don't have to go it alone. God has given us his Spirit so that we can overcome temptation and become more and more conformed to the image of Christ. But how does the Spirit work? What is the nature of our own personal involvement in the process? And how do we know if we are making progress?

In these audio lectures, Allen defines holiness in theological terms by connecting it to core Christian doctrines such as the character of God, the nature of creation, and the covenantal shape of life with God. He then considers the ways in which the gospel of Jesus not only prompts us to holy action but provides holiness as one of its blessings. Finally, he attends to the ways in which the gift of sanctification relates to various human instruments and means, so that we can appreciate its connection to human nature, creaturely responsibility, and the pedagogy of exemplars and of law.

What does a real relationship with God look like? What does the biblical vision of true spiritual life look like? How do we grow in spiritual maturity? How we answer these questions influence the health, potency, and witness of Christians in an increasingly complex and hostile world. The Conformed to His Image: Audio Lectures answers these questions with clarity and insight, offering a comprehensive, balanced, and applicable guide to spiritual growth.

Listen and learn to seek to enter more deeply into the perfect reconciliation with God, which is yours by the shed blood of Christ in this uplifting audio guide. Live by constantly exercising faith in the assurance that the blood cleanses from all sin and yield yourself to be sanctified and brought near to God through the blood; let it be your life-giving nourishment and power.

All Christians and sinners should understand that the whole plan is complete. They should understand that the whole of Christ—his character, his work, his atoning death, and his ever-living intercession—belongs to each and every person and simply needs to be accepted. There is a full ocean of it.

This audiobook will greatly help seekers after holiness, because it meets us on the threshold of our life in Christ and leads us along a luminous path of scriptural teaching, to the full measure of the believer’s identification with his Risen Lord. The candidates for sanctification are those who have the first-fruits of sanctification in the initial work of grace. They are then shown that the secret of holiness is the imparted holiness of Jesus Christ. What a marvellous thing sanctification is. The perfections of Jesus - ours by the sheer gift of God.

He who wants a correct understanding of holiness must first begin by examining the vast and solemn subject of sin. He must dig down very deep if he wants to build high. Wrong views about holiness are generally traceable to wrong views about human corruption. Practical holiness and entire self-consecration to God are not given adequate attention by modern Christians. The unsaved sometimes rightly complain that Christians are not as kind and unselfish and good-natured as those who make no profession of faith.

Mental Illness & Christianity plays like a friend is encouraging you over a cup of coffee, she just happens to have the bible verses ready so that the conversation can be led by God’s word. If you’re looking for God’s way in a relationship with someone who sparks frustration or strife in your life, this book will give you some things to think about as it pertains to your role, using your spiritual gifts, and being sanctified in his truth.

Over the past 30 years, John Piper has preached several messages that equip listeners to apply the Bible in their daily lives. Stretching three decades, this book includes three of those sermons that intend to mobilize the church in the fight against sin and the walk of faith. In addition to these sermons, there is a practical appendix of acronyms Pastor John uses in his own life and commends to others.

The Changed Life was originally intended to be given as a spoken address by the renowned 19-century Scottish evangelist Henry Drummond.

Thomas Boston shows what it means to sanctify the Sabbath and what the sanctification consists of. He makes a distinction between holy rest and holy exercise. Works of mercy, like saving the life of an animal, and good works, such as visiting the sick or relieving the poor, are encouraged on the Sabbath.

Do you - as a believer - have a "deceitful" and "wicked" heart? Should your heart be tested, not trusted? If that's what you believe, your spiritual experience will be one of duty and obligation, only a faint imitation of what Jesus promised. This provocative book invites you to a radically different approach, an inspiring move from head to heart that affects every aspect of your life.

At the very heart of God is the passionate disposition to be in loving fellowship with you. From the human side of this equation it is meditative prayer that ushers us into this divine-human fellowship. Richard Foster, best-selling author and founder of Renovare, writes these words as one who has experienced what they describe. And in this new book he will beautifully guide you in this transformational way, that you might come to know deeper fellowship with God.

A Christian Holiness Collection presentation. During the late 19th, early 20th century, this book, which edified the doctrine of the 2nd blessing, or sanctification, was either loved or hated. Eventually, the traditional church doctrine where conversion (the first blessing) is all that's needed, prevailed and even the Methodists lost their "method" over time as Wesley's ideas were gradually forgotten. But, should the doctrine of the 2nd blessing BE forgotten? Produced and narrated by Vic Zarley. Special thanks to LightByDesign.net, Northwest Nazarene University, and the Wesley Center online ...

Lusting after the opposite sex has been a great stumbling block to this day for many children of God, including servants of God. The author presents the sins of adultery and fornication in all the forms in which they manifest themselves, and the Lord Jesus Christ as the Liberator. He gives practical applications for a walk in total victory over adultery and fornication, from which many people would like to be set free. Listen to this book for the ways and means of experiencing freedom from sin! Many have testified to its liberating benefits.

This message is the third in Pastor Runyan's preaching series through the book of Deuteronomy, one more in the Ragtown Pulpit series. This important exhortation will help you avoid the mistake God's people made when they first stood on the banks of the Jordan River. They had all the right facts about the task ahead but failed to evaluate the evidence properly. As a result, they were frozen in fear. They doomed themselves to forty years of wandering in the wilderness. Moses now addresses the same challenge to the next generation, who watched their fathers fall in the desert. Make a sober ...

According to John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, God raised up Methodism in order to spread the central teaching of entire sanctification. The church has offered an unbalanced understanding of the gospel for too long. This book calls all Methodists—the spiritual descendants of the Wesleyan revival, regardless of contemporary denominational expression—back to who we have been at our best. Perfect Love provides an in-depth explanation of entire sanctification and helps listeners pursue all that God has for us.

We meet 16-year-old Vali on the eve of a raid of her small Vermont town that sends her, her mother, and her younger brother on the run from the Deportation Forces. In this near-future America, all citizens are chipped at birth and this chip is used to track their movements from bus stops to schools to grocery stores. Vali and her mother are undocumented, but at least Vali has a counterfeit chip—until it starts malfunctioning. Now on the run, Vali and her family are desperately trying to make it to California, a sanctuary state that is being walled off from the rest of the country.