Entries by Bruce Gust

Muscular Christianity Bible Study

Muscular Christianity Bible Study September 10th will be completely online! We will not be meeting at my home! Tune it to the broadcast on the Muscular Christianity Facebook page and catch the live broadcast! See you then! Where: 2125 Maytown Circle, Thompsons Station, TN 37179 When: Beginning Sunday, September 10th from 4:30 PM – 6:00 […]

Ordained

Two Years For the two years that I was stationed in Hawaii, anytime I wasn’t going to night school or doing something work related, I was either practicing or playing, determined to one day be good enough to be a Drum Instructor at the School of Music. The environment at the School was awesome. Everyone […]

The Mechanics of Forgiveness | Part IV

What Was Dead is Now Utterly Alive Because everything is tainted the way that it is, nothing really qualifies as “good” (Is 64:6). In addition, apart from Christ, you are “dead” spiritually, yet His Grace makes what was dead utterly alive… As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, 2 in which you used […]

Mechanics of Forgiveness | Part III

Slaves to Sin In Romans, it says that prior to submitting to Christ, we are “slaves to sin…” 15 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under the law but under grace? By no means! 16 Don’t you know that when you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey—whether […]

The Mechanics of Forgiveness | Part II

Sin Sin is a debt, a burden, a thief, a sickness, a leprosy, a plague, a poison, a serpent, a sting.  Everything that man hates, sin is.  A load of curses and calamities beneath whose crushing intolerable pressure, the whole creation groans.  Who is the undertaker that digs man a grave?  Who is the painted temptress that […]

The Mechanics of Forgiveness | Part I

Your Cheatin’ Heart Imagine you see your sweetheart being affectionate with another person. You’re shattered. You can imagine talking to them, trying to not fall apart as you’re picking up the broken pieces of your heart off the floor. At one point, they say, “I’m sorry. Will you forgive me?” You wipe the tears from […]

How Do You Know You’re Saved – Are You Willing to Pull Over?

Abstract Some see Christ as a spiritual appliance more than a Divine Absolute. Rather than staying in their lane, they drive on the wrong side of the road and when the Holy Spirit pulls up alongside them and instructs them to pull over, they simply roll down the window, say “I’m sorry, please forgive me!” […]

Actions, Attitudes and Appearances

In Boot Camp, you would on occasion be assigned “Fire Watch,” which was an hour’s worth of either walking around the Squad Bay, checking to make sure all the M16s were secure or, you would sometimes have to go and monitor the Washer and Dryer where the Platoon’s PT gear was being washed. I remember […]

Driving on the Wrong Side of the Road

How Bizarre is That? Imagine someone driving on the wrong side of the road and justifying it by saying they have the right to be happy. How bizarre is that? Now envision that same situation, only now that person is being pulled from the wreckage that was their automobile after colliding with another car because […]

Make It Sing | Part III

Welcome to “Make it Sing | Part III!” In Part I we looked at how applying God’s take on any given issue is going to translate to the best possible outcome regardless of what the situation or issue may be. Using the illustration of the way an engine is sometimes described as “running like a […]