Tomorrow is for Salads

Don’t forget that July’s Recipe Round Up will be posted tomorrow at Promptings. Violet will be using Mr. Linky, but she has also offered to include posts emailed to her before tomorrow.

I’m hoping you’ll read this and not only post your salad recipe tomorrow, but also post a reminder of the upcoming round up on your own blog so the word gets out beforehand. Let’s make this the biggest round up yet! 

If you don’t have a blog, but you do have a great summer salad recipe, I’d be willing to post it here and include it in the round up  for you. Just email me the recipe at the contact address in the side bar. 

For more information on the Recipe Round Ups, click on the Recipe Round Up image above.

How doth faith justify a sinner in the sight of God?

Faith justifies a sinner in the sight of God, not because of those other graces which do always accompany it, or of good works that are the fruits of it,[1] nor as if the grace of faith, or any act thereof, were imputed to him for his justification;[2] but only as it is an instrument by which he receiveth and applies Christ and his righteousness.[3]

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Christ's Active and Passive Obedience and Our Justification

Jesus, Thy blood and righteousness
My beauty are, my glorious dress….
(Nicolaus Zinzindorf, 1700-1760,
translated by John Wesley, 1703-1791)

Everywhere I look recently, I see the mention of the active and passive obedience of Christ, and what (or whether) they both  contribute to our justification. The concepts of the active and passive obedience of Christ were included in the last three questions from the Westminster Larger Catechism that I’ve posted—all three questions regarding justification—although those particular terms weren’t used. But the ideas are there, with the catechism clearly teaching that both the active and passive obedience of Christ are necessary for the justification of sinners. And one of the books I read and reviewed recently, By Faith Alone, dealt a bit with the active and passive obedience of Christ and whether both are necessary grounds for our justification. So I’ve been thinking about the two kinds of obedience and what they contributed to our justification, and if I’m thinking about it, you know I’m going to write about it.

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