Here is a good description of sanctification making clear that we work but we do so by grace and not to earn or maintain our salvation. “As Americans, we live in a culture ... for fast, simple solutions to all problems. … we must testify that no such solution exists for the process of sanctification. Rather, we must adorn our faith with serious discipline and continuous work to grow in grace. But ...

This will be Sunday's quote before the pastoral prayer. Sanctification is never advanced by self-focused grief or guilt. It is energized by joy and driven by love. This is the distinction that gospelized sanctification emphasizes. Only a remembrance of the gospel will free us from our habitual grief and guilt. Only the gospel can implant the ...

... what has happened until they get penned down.. and I'll be amazed at the journey God's taken me through! Past and beyond the process of justification, He released me to the training grounds for sanctification. The Lord is a good God that has installed for me plans to prosper and not to harm me. As I endeavoured into things that took hold of me, took away my original focus and plans, I ...

“The real truth: Serving is more than we typically think it is. God is not simply at work through me, He is at work in me. God is actively at work in every moment, relationship and situation for our progress in holiness, including serving.” –  SANCTIFICATION THROUGH SERVING I. Introduction A. Goal of this seminar: “While serving is

Martin Chemnitz, Loci Theologici, p555: This distinction between causes and effects is also useful for showing that sanctification or renewal is to be distinguished from justification, and that the new obedience is not a cause or an essential part of our justification, because it is an effect or a result. Related posts:New obedience comes slowlyMartin ChemnitzLuther: One Effect of the " ...

... God's wrath over sin (justification), our freedom from shame and for sonship (adoption), and our freedom from the reign of sin in our lives so that we become more truly human and alive to God (sanctification). I mention this because Confessing Evangelical, a British Lutheran blogger, has put up a wonderful post about love for Christ, not the law's demands, being the power to change us. ...