Posted in uncategorized on July 21, 2012| Leave a Comment »
"… what Augustine says is true, that even the sins of the saints are, through the guiding providence of God, so far from doing harm to them, that, on the contrary, they serve to advance their salvation …"
Source: John Calvin
We long, therefore, for our sarx to be destroyed and for our sōma to be transformed.
Source: John Stott, Romans, 242
Posted in holiness, Packer, J.I. on July 1, 2012| Leave a Comment »
In older Evangelical parlance the language of guidance was used comprehensively to cover God’s eliciting of faithful obedience from us within the often enigmatic and daunting frame of providentially ordered circumstances.
Packer, J. I, and Carolyn Nystrom. Guard us, guide us : divine leading in life’s decisions. (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Books, 2008), 178.
Andrew Groves 