Sola Fide is the internal instrument. Faith is the heart’s trust in Christ alone for righteousness, the empty hand that receives, not a work that earns (Romans 4:5; 10:10). It is deeper than mere intellectual assent. It is reliance of the whole person. No merit, no contribution, no “faith formed by love” that smuggles works back in. Sola Scriptura is the external norm. The Word comes from outside us and is spoken by the Father through the Son, preserved as God-breathed Scripture. It creates faith (Romans 10:17), defines what must be believed, and remains the final standard. It is not generated by the heart. Instead it addresses and corrects the heart. They both connect like this: the external Word produces and sustains the internal faith. Faith alone rests on the external promise. Cut the external Word and “faith” collapses into subjective feeling, experience, or institutional claims. Cut the internal reception and the external Word remains unread and unapplied. One without the other is incomplete.

Test everything by whether it produces allegiance to Christ rather than a system. Test whether the kingdom being built looks like the Servant or like Gentile rulers. Test whether people are resting in what God has already done or in what they (or their institution) can perform. Test everything with His word.

Claiming to be the New Israel while accusing people of Jewishness for reading the New Testament is the most Catholic sentence possible.

Scripture alone is the norming norm (the standard that judges all other standards).

He says that you should love the Lord your God with all your heart, and all your soul with all your mind. This is the great and foremost command. The term great, largest, megas, the term foremost, proton, is the greatest and primary. Who Do You Love?

Have you ever considered what letting your only child die so others could live would be like? This is why there is no grater love than the cross.

One trillion percent.

Gone but not forgotten. Happy 33rd birthday Charlie. youtube.com/watch?v=eN4aTTtM…

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What Christian memes are supposed to look like….

cult /kŭlt/ noun. 1. A religion or religious sect that is told what to believe under the guidance of an authoritarian, charismatic leader. 2. The followers of such a religion or sect. 3. A system or community of religious worship and ritual.

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“If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

Says the institution whose historical toolkit for disagreement included the stake, the rack, and the rope.

God is always talking to you. You just don’t hear him because you’re too busy.

When is CatholicCon? All these larping crusaders need their own feast day.

A Call to Persevere “And so, dear brothers and sisters,we can boldly enter heaven’s Most Holy Place because of the blood of Jesus. By his death, Jesus opened a new and life-giving way through the curtain into the Most Holy Place. And since we have a great High Priest who rules over God’s house, let us go right into the presence of God with sincere hearts fully trusting him. For our guilty consciences have been sprinkled with Christ’s blood to make us clean, & our bodies have been washed with pure water.” (Hebrews 10:19-22).

It is through nothing you do. It’s is through nothing I do. It is through nothing anybody else does. It is through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ alone offering his body and dying on the cross that we are saved.

The ability to burn a heretic is insignificant next to the power of a revised catechism.

Only Christ can cleanse your heart and conscious. For as high as the heavens are above the earth so great is his loving kindness.