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Freedom is a Double-edged Sword

11 August 2016 By Andrew

Without freedom, love is impossible. And as I said a couple of weeks ago, without freedom, true repentance is impossible. This is the same thing, of course, because true repentance involves opening ourselves in love of God, a willingness to throw ourselves into the open arms of Christ.

There is a place for force, but that place is only within ourselves. God will not force us into good, and he will not force us to… [ read more ]

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Freedom to Repent: The Nun’s Blood and the Adulteress

29 July 2016 By Andrew

Why freedom is essential to repentance.

Jesus said “Everyone who practices sin is the slave of sin!” (Jn 8:34). This is true of all sin. We have seen in our extended discussion of pornography and addiction how easy it is to become a slave of sexual sin, and specifically how that slavery eats away at our freedom, and at the same time increasingly degrades and destroys the likeness of God in us — though the… [ read more ]

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