Fully Alive in Christ!

"The glory of God is man fully alive… ." wrote St. Irenaeus. Whoever believes that Jesus Christ is the Lord and the Savior of the world, and turns from sin to put faith in Christ to forgive sins and grant eternal life, will have the Spirit of God living inside of him or her. When this happens, we awaken from the gray world of disappointed dreams and taste what it really means to be alive. This blog is about the experience of being truly alive and how Christ satisfies our deepest longings.

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Why We Need to Think

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I've been working my way through messages from this year's Desiring God Conference, Think: The Life of the Mind and the Love of God ...
Sunday, October 10, 2010

How to Confront and Avoid Anxiety

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As the last post explained, Battling Unbelief taught me to start focusing on God's promises and to put my trust in Him to keep them. ...
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Anxiety Is Dangerous - And Avoidable

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After somehow managing to successfully not post during the whole month of September, I want to jump back in by following up on the last post...
Sunday, August 29, 2010

Sunday Salt: Martin Luther Takes Aim at Anxiety

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Just about everyone knows something about Martin Luther, but there are so many common ideas about him that they sometimes distort or obscure...
Sunday, August 15, 2010

Sunday Salt: C.S. Lewis Exposes Our Legalistic Thinking

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After this week's discussion of legalism , this quote from C.S. Lewis seems appropriate. Lewis hardly needs an introduction to many, but...
Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Our Hope Is Not In Who We Are, But In Who God Is

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Here is the antidote to the problem of legalism I described in the last post : Our identity does not come from our being good people. It com...

This Message That I'm Not Good Is Discouraging

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I described in a recent post our desire to think of ourselves as good and our resistance to accepting that we really aren't good. I sum...
Sunday, August 8, 2010

Sunday Salt: Charles Simeon's Comfort in Suffering

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Charles Simeon was the pastor of Trinity Church in Cambridge, England for 54 years (from 1782 until his death in 1836). John Piper has a ve...
Monday, August 2, 2010

Sunday Salt: What John Wesley's Mother Taught Him

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Sin likes to hide. That's one reason I believe it is so important to examine ourselves in order to discover where sin is lurking in our ...
Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Why You Have to Fight Sin by Trusting in God

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I said here and here that in order to overcome sin and temptation, you have to let go of trusting in your own willpower and turn instead t...
Sunday, July 11, 2010

Sunday Salt: John Bunyan - When Sin Causes Us to Lose Heart

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John Bunyan began writing The Pilgrim's Progress while in prison in 1675. A lay preacher with only a basic lower-class education, Buny...

Openness and Sincerity About Suffering Encourages Others

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There are other reasons besides fear and insecurity that can lead us to conceal our struggles. Sometimes I am tempted to keep silent about m...
Saturday, July 10, 2010

Don't Just Put on a Happy Face

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I said recently that your most painful or troubling times may be your best testimony to the power of the Gospel and the treasure of knowing...
Saturday, June 26, 2010

Your Worst Times May Be Your Best Testimony to the Gospel

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The best chance you have to show the Gospel to people may be when you least feel like you have anything to give. When you are in the midst o...
Sunday, June 13, 2010

Sunday Salt: Spurgeon on How the Cross Takes Away Fear

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I normally intend to draw from as diverse a group of people as possible for Sunday Salt meditations, but this quote from the "Prince of...
Sunday, June 6, 2010

Sunday Salt: Augustine's Gratitude for How God Kept Him From Sin

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Augustine of Hippo was one of the greatest writers of the Early Church. Living from the fourth century to the first third of the fifth cent...
Friday, June 4, 2010

Five Crucial Aspects of a Healthy Marriage

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In preparation for a friend's bridal shower, my wife asked me the other day what my top three tips for a good marriage were. This is wha...
Sunday, May 30, 2010

Sunday Salt: Spurgeon - Are You Friendly With Sin?

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This Sunday's meditation is from Charles Spurgeon , one of the most gifted preachers of all time. It is often uncomfortable to be confro...
Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Why Does Life Often Seem to Get Harder?

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John Piper began his eight-month leave of absence on May 1st. He and the other pastors and elders have been encouraging us to pray faithfull...
Wednesday, May 19, 2010

How to Fight Sin by Faith

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I said here that the way to defeat sin is to fight by faith - you must admit you can't overcome sin on your own and put your trust in G...
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Anthony Bushnell
Minnesota, United States
Born alive at age 18. I had a childhood without church and didn't believe in God until He saved me seven weeks before my 19th birthday. Christ changed my life forever, but it was years before I really discovered the fullness of joy in God. I write to encourage others. I love teaching. I am grateful to be a husband and a father of three. I also practice law, volunteer with Christian Legal Society, and lead a small group at our church. And I really love to read.
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