Holiness is not a Wesleyan doctrine. It is a Biblical doctrine. Andrew Murray was a Dutch Reformed Pastor born in South Africa. Andrew Murray was passionate about holiness. Most pastors have at least one of his books on their shelves. While “The Two Covenants and the Second Blessing” may not be among his best known [...]
Holiness University will focus on the writings and lives of those men and women of God who throughout history have called the church to holiness. Our objective will be to interrupt our frenzied rush to relevancy, which enshrines the names of those who contributed to our rich holiness heritage on our churches and academic buildings, but erases what they taught from our pulpits, doctrinal statements, and our institutions of higher learning.
THE TWO COVENANTS and The Second Blessing by Andrew Murray
Holiness is not a Wesleyan doctrine. It is a Biblical doctrine. Andrew Murray was a Dutch Reformed Pastor born in South Africa. Andrew Murray was passionate about holiness. Most pastors have at least one of his books on their shelves. While “The Two Covenants and the Second Blessing” may not be among his best known [...]
SANCTIFICATION AND ITS SYNONYMS – Part 6 – by W. T. Purkiser
FULL SALVATION ~ Perhaps no single word better expresses the message and purpose of the entire Bible than the word salvation. It has become almost a truism to state that the whole Bible is the “history of salvation.” Sometimes the emphasis has been more on the history than the salvation. Sometimes the idea of the [...]
SANCTIFICATION AND ITS SYNONYMS – Part 5 – by W. T. Purkiser
THIS MATTER OF PERFECTION One of humanity’s curious contradictions is the almost fanatical search for perfection in every realm other than the religious; and the equally fanatical rejection of the only kind of perfection open to frail mortals, the perfection of love. It is assumed that any confession of Christian perfection leads to pride. Periodically, religious teachers arise [...]
SANCTIFICATION AND ITS SYNONYMS – Part 4 – by W. T. Purkiser
THE CARNAL NATURE AND ITS CRUCIFIXION No one can study the full-orbed truth of holiness and its synonyms without coming to grips with an important strand of Biblical teaching: the nature of the inner sin from which entire sanctification provides its complete cleansing. Implied in all that has been said about a pure heart, the baptism with the [...]
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THE TWO COVENANTS: THEIR RELATION (Chapter II) Andrew Murray