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Be Holy for God is Holy
Nat Erickson
Thursday, March 4, 2010

There is a simple yet profound command in the Bible which, in my opinion, we as Christians take far too lightly: ‘you shall be holy, for I am holy (Lev. 11:44,1 Pet. 1:16). Christian, you are to be holy because your God is holy. What is holiness? God has holiness and we potentially have holiness; ours comes from God and His standards. “Holiness is the image of God put in moral terms. Holiness is not one quality God has among others, rather it defines His character as a whole” (Daniel Heimbach).

A city on a hill:
Nat Erickson
Thursday, April 23, 2009

You are the salt of the earth (if you are a believer). You are the light of the world (Matt. 5:13-16). John Winthrop, a Puritan, spoke these now famous words somewhere around 1630, just before landing in the Massachusetts Bay Colony: “For we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us. So that if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken... we shall be made a story and a by-word throughout the world.

The Bible
Nat Erickson
Thursday, April 9, 2009

God's word should be the foundation of our lives as Christians: it should shape, build, and determine what we believe, think, and do. After a start like that I want to make it clear what you are reading. This is not a defense of the Bible. It is not a study of what the Bible says about its authority, and it's not about the inerrancy of scripture. I am assuming that you either agree with those points, or that you will look to a more complete source than a newspaper article to discover the truth (like the Bible).