The Sola Gratia Life

28/01/2024

In this video, I give an update on my pregnancy and unbox some Baby Welcome Kits that I received for FREE from companies!

Baby welcome freebies unboxing and a little on the surprising experiences of pregnancy!Full list of where you can get your baby welcome boxes and other goodi...

26/01/2024

In this short video, I share what I've learned about Christian marriage so far as our 2-year wedding anniversary approaches...

23/01/2024

Quiet time... no daily habit is more important. It is a precious time to rest at the foot of The Cross to be refreshed by the power of The Gospel, empowered by The Holy Spirit through the study of God's Word, prayer, confession, reflection -- all bringing to remembrance the fulfilled promises of Jesus and being marveled by His wonderous love and the wrath He saved us from. Whether you start or end your day with this habit, setting aside significant time to slow down and have this intimate time with The Lord is paramount. Our lives are busy, distracting, and filled with temptations to prefer ourselves and the temporal priorities we cling to so tightly over our Redeemer, our King. With the illusion of control that we allow ourselves to pridefully believe we are sovereign over, we try to claim time for ourselves and believe the lie that anything else is more important than knowing Jesus more deeply. This is why, though I appreciate the intention behind 10-minute devotionals and such, I see them as a nice addition to a daily quiet time routine that is at least 45-minutes... not a replacement of it. Yes, God can do anything with any amount of time, including work profoundly in a person's heart. Still, the spiritual blessings that comes of disciplining yourself in the practice of spending consistent alone time with The Lord are more often not gifted to us through shortcuts. Spiritual maturity comes with intentionality in giving God the first fruits of our heart (with our time and our focus), trust in God's sanctifying work in your heart, and patience in seeing the evidence of that continuous work move in your life. How do you spend your quiet time or where do you struggle most with carving out that special time with The Lord? Where do you need to be encouraged?

26/12/2023

In only 5 minutes, the late R.C. Sproul gave a rich and concise explanation of why we celebrate Jesus's birth as a baby on Christmas, and what we need to understand about His being fully God and fully man:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C1SH8_dst6h/?igsh=ZHYzZHRwemxvZ2lo

25/12/2023

"And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth." (John 1:14)

Joy to world! We reflect on and celebrate when our Lord and Saviour condescended Himself to this earth for us sinners, conceived by the power of The Holy Spirit to the vessel of a virgin so that He would both be born under the law man was obliged to yet remaining purely sinless as a seed undefiled by Man's original sin... only to suffer at the hands of men, drink the full wrath of The Father to satisfy His perfect, Holy justice on our behalf (which we deserve for never being able to perfectly keep God's Law). The Supreme High Priest who sacrificed Himself as the ultimate spotless Lamb of God, as The Old Law/Covenant required for the atonement of sins (thereby putting those who believe in Jesus's life, death, and resurrection under the New Covenant), did not come that first time as a military leader or a golden-clad impressive force... our Saviour was born as a little baby. Jesus died on the cross to impute His righteousness to us so that we would be raised with Him in victory from death to LIFE EVERLASTING, for all who put their faith in He who was fully God and fully man. Glory to He who is full of grace and truth! He who reigns with The Father at His right-hand and will return for His Church as a bridegroom comes for his bride to celebrate the great wedding feast.

May this season and all your days fill your hearts with the joy, peace, and truth of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, the embodiment of Hope!

14/12/2023

"For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well." Psalms 139:13-15

I'm now almost 14 weeks and happy to report that our baby looks healthy and very lively. The medical team has good reason to believe it's a girl 🩷 We do have a name picked out, which I will share once she's born. She has been very wiggly with her limbs and fingers, we watched her have hiccups, and she used her feet to push off my uterine wall like a little Olympic swimmer. She's so adorable and funny already. It was a very special day for my husband and I to see that indeed, WONDERFUL are His works.

Coveting your prayers for continued healthy pregnancy (and for symptoms to finally subside) as well as for safe delivery. She's due June 18th, just after Father's Day and about two weeks after my 40th birthday 😵‍💫

12/12/2023

It can be easy to see the way others are celebrating this season, enjoying their blessings, and let our minds fixate on what we lack in comparison. We are tempted to allow bitterness, envy and pride to take its quiet hold on our hearts and speak about others in a way that elevates ourselves and minimizes others, rather than being happy that our brothers and sisters in Christ are enjoying themselves. We may say or think things like, "Look at this family and all the fancy decorations in their big house. And they're buying a whole cow's meat to donate to the homeless shelter's Christmas Eve dinner? My family does not need to do all of that; we celebrate more simply and therefore we are more humble". How do we know that the family with the gorgeous dinner table clings to Jesus any less than the family who has a basic meal for Christmas Eve? Must we forget that every person has multiple seasons of hardship, tragedy, and suffering in some form or another throughout their life? That is what God uses to refine us into deeper places of knowing His goodness. In other words, you never know what a person or family had gone through or is going to go through in between the more "carefree" or easier times. So when a fellow inheritor or a godly family is happily enjoying their earthly blessings, particularly if they share those blessings with others, our hearts should soar for them not resent them.

Paul David Tripp beautifully gives a quick teaching on the topic of envy in this video:
https://fb.watch/oRdfOmsdqY/?mibextid=RtaFA8

09/12/2023

It is Advent season in which the Church calendar is dedicated to anticipating the arrival ("advent") of Jesus of Nazareth, the long-awaited Messiah and King of Kings, Lord of Lords!

Still looking for a devotional to help you and your family embrace and ponder the wonderful miracle of the virgin birth and the simultaneous tenderness and mightiness of God's heart during this season? Here are some of my favorites:

What I'm following this year:
Advent resources from 1517 a non-profit that is dedicated to sound biblical teaching and advancing God's Kingdom by proclaiming and defending The Gospel with faithfulness to the Scriptures.
Link to Advent Resources: https://tinyurl.com/bdcmymxz

All-time favorites from years past...

The Dawn of Redeeming Grace: Daily Devotions for Advent (Devotional for Christmas that will stir hope and inspire worship) -- by Sinclair Ferguson
Link to book: https://tinyurl.com/bdct85p9

Love Came Down at Christmas: A Daily Advent Devotional (Devotions on 1 Corinthians 13 reflecting on Jesus: the source of authentic, divine, transforming love) -- by Sinclair Ferguson
Link to book: https://tinyurl.com/4vsat9dt

O Come, O Come, Emmanuel: A Liturgy for Daily Worship from Advent to Epiphany -- by Jonathan Gibson
https://www.truthforlife.org/store/products/books-and-booklets/come-emmanuel/

And here is a new one I stumbled on that I plan to get into next year:
Glorifying and Enjoying God: 52 Devotions through the Westminster Shorter Catechism -- Editors: William Boekestein, Jonathan Landry Cruse, Andrew J. Miller
Link to book: https://tinyurl.com/y5zbd7ds

04/12/2023

It's that time of year where the world at large and Christians celebrate a holiday that is wrought with things that have nothing to do with our Saviour and The Gospel. Should we turn to legalism and proclaim "I hate Christmas because it's a pagan holiday" or should we embrace all the warm, fuzzy things that is so popular in our modern culture (Santa Claus, stacking a mountain of presents by a tree, etc)? As earnest believers who are both serious about the Word of God and also conforming to the knowledge AND grace of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, we ought to do neither.

If people interact with my household around the holidays and sees & hears little to no distinction between us and the secular world that is a problem and begs a real heart check. On the other hand, if people interact with my household and "His kingdom come, His will be done on earth as it is in Heaven" is evident in the way we celebrate Jesus this season, then to hone in on a sprinkling of festive aspects that have nothing to do with Jesus and using that to discourage a fellow believer also begs a heart check. Ultimately, the question one must ask themself is "where is my heart postured?" If your heart is full of joy because Christmas is a holiday that magnifies the miracle of The Messiah being born to a virgin and the beauty of The Gospel... being festive with decor and such is not to be made into a bigger issue than it should be. If your heart is full of joy because you're more excited about presents, decorating and doing Christmas "things" than the meaning of Jesus' birth then by all means, such a believer should be pulled aside and be lovingly admonished.

Michelle Lesley- Discipleship for Christian Women writes a very good article about this topic (link in the comments), and here is a quote from that article:

"Do some aspects of the celebration of Christmas find their origin in millennia-old paganism? Possibly. But are you participating in that paganism if you put up a tree or give gifts at Christmas? Probably not. The “Christmas is pagan” lore is so ancient and uncertain that most people aren’t even aware of it. How could you possibly be participating in paganism if you’re not even aware of its existence, you have no intention of participating in it, and it has nothing to do with your reasons for celebrating?"

Everyone who either knows my husband and I or has had a conversation for any length of time with us will hear Jesus and The Gospel pass through our lips. Everything we do in any holiday celebration centers around putting Jesus and The Gospel on forefront display... but yes, we also exchange Christmas presents with each other and our immediate family (one reasonable item per person) and if you step foot in my home you are putting on a goofy antler hat or something that lights up for pictures. If you hyper-focus on that tiny aspect and ignore where our hearts and intentions are at with the majority of how we celebrate then I appeal to you to think and pray about a possible legalistic heart. I don't use that word lightly either since being Reformed and Calvinist, I often get slapped with the "Pharisee" label 'just' for associating with the doctrines that the Reformers, Puritans, early church fathers, and Jesus' own disciples taught and passed down. It is one thing to vehemently defend sound doctrine and it is another thing to nitpick the way a family or individual celebrates a holiday. For my little family, we use this holiday, when people of the world are more receptive to hearing about Jesus' birth and The Gospel, to witness... invite people to know the love of God by understanding that Jesus' birth is the pinnacle of John 3:16.

We're called to glorify Christ. No matter what Christmas looks like in our homes, if the sincerity and fullness of our hearts are for Christ and He is on display as the center and height of celebrations, so what if we choose to exchange gifts as tokens of love to our family and friends or wear goofy hats and decorate a tree to be festive? As long as they are not at the forefront, the ones wagging their fingers at those things should really consider verses like Matthew 23:13...
“But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you shut off the kingdom of heaven from people; for you do not enter in yourselves, nor do you allow those who are entering to go in"

I believe that the core characteristic of our Lord Jesus is His perfection of Humility (which derives from His absolute Holiness). But I think we sometimes have a skewed view of what true humility is and the humility of our Saviour. One of the messages that Jesus preached His Sermon on The Mount was "the meek [gentle, humble] shall inherit the earth" (Matthew 5:5). But does that mean Jesus in His perfect humility would want to discourage us from making the center of our celebrations during this season to be all about Him? Absolutely not. He is worthy of worship and to celebrate His birth, no matter what day it technically is (point of the matter is, Jesus was born and fulfilled OT prophecy to bring forth The Gospel). It is appropriate to celebrate our Lord if our hearts are chiefly postured towards Him. In John 20:28, Acts 10:25-26, 19:9-10, and many other verses, none of these instances do we see Jesus telling those worshiping Him to stop because He wanted to be 'humble', as did mere men and even angels who were being worshiped wrongly by others. Christ's humility was exhibited by His heart towards those He called His own posession, by His submission to The Father, by preferring others before Himself, and a whole slew of other things that will take way too much time to describe here (I go into detail of Christ's humility a lot in my email devotionals so please sign up to get access to the whole library as well as new devotionals as I release them: https://solagratialife.com/devotional/).

Check out this short video of Dr. John MacArthur, a very well-respected pastor-theologian, scholar, and author -- one of my favorites -- share his thoughts on the topic of Christmas celebrations.

For details about this video and for related resources, click here: https://www.gty.org/library/blog/B191209To receive John MacArthur’s monthly letter, as we...

29/11/2023

This is my Labrador, last night, who is clearly very excited to be dressed up for taking our family Christmas card pictures. Normally, I decorate for Christmas and get cards ready on the evening of Thanksgiving. Pregnancy exhaustion, brain fog, and all other classic symptoms have kept my productivity both in the home and with my blog at dismal levels. My husband has been pulling my weight but there are things only I can do and he doesn't know where to even start such as making our home warm and inviting. It was difficult at first, but both my husband and I had to learn to let me rest as much as my body needs. We've learned to look at these miserable symptoms that renders me useless as a beautiful part of what God is doing in my womb. The lethargy, the insomnia, nausea, headaches, the back pain, the brain fog, constant trips to the bathroom, the insatiable snacking, the hyper-emotional-sensitivity, the bloating, and allllll the rest... is hard proof that God Almighty is carefully and wonderfully making a human being, who He thought of before the foundation of the earth, inside of my womb. Week by week He is creating and orchestrating the nervous system, facial features, gender parts, even the taste buds of this baby like an awe-inspiring symphony unfolding before a captivated and anticipating audience. How awesome is our God that the most magnificent wonders of His love begins in the most quiet, humblest places. It makes me think of the way our Lord and Savior came into this world both fully man and fully God. He didn't choose to arrive as a great military commander or any other seemingly "impressive" form. Jesus came as a tiny, helpless baby born to a couple who had nothing to their name but a promise... the ultimate promise of the Messiah coming by the Virgin Birth, so that He would not have been born under the curse of Man but would take on the curse of Sin onto Himself, then being punished the full weight of the justice we deserve by God The Father, imputing His righteousness onto us who believe in the finished work of The Gospel of Jesus Christ so that we who have faith are risen with Him from Death to Life.

25/11/2023

Assurance of Faith...

I recently answered a question, "how do I truly know I'm saved and how can I keep that assurance?"

The sad truth is, the majority of Christians are not truly saved, yet they are convinced they are because of various reasons -- they "grew up Christian", they once prayed a prayer asking Jesus into their heart (with no intention of taking up their cross, dying to themselves, to follow Him), and a multitude of other reasons.

I don't want to give a response that's too simplistic because we're dealing with the question of one's heart and salvation, but I also want to give a clear response to this question.

So if this is something you have been wrestling with here's a basic checklist, if you will. This is not meant to be an end all, be all, cookie-cutter answer to one questioning their Assurance of Faith. This is meant to be an encouragement to those who are truly saved to be confident in the eternal Hope you have in Christ that can never be snatched away or lost, and a conviction to those who think you're Christian but at closer look at your life and heart cannot honestly say Jesus truly reigns as Lord over it.
Either way, I pray for God to bring doctrinally sound teachers and peers to come alongside you to either grow you in the embrace and confidence of that full assurance that you already have as a genuine believer or to explore a relationship with Jesus and study of His Word if you're not a believer or found yourself to be a nominal believer.

Basic ways to know you have full assurance of faith promised to you as a believer in Christ:

1. If you heard the full, clear and accurate Gospel presented to you and your response was to acknowledge you are a sinner worthy of death, repent of your rebellion towards a Holy God, and put your faith in Jesus alone who lived the perfect, sinless life you never could only to die on the cross to pay your transgressions, imputed His righteousness to you and rose from the grave to seal His act of great love for you, conquering sin, death, and the devil on your behalf, a sinner that can now enter Heaven. (Justification)

2. A transformed life; producing good spiritual fruit in your life. Maybe it doesn't happen right away or maybe it does. If your life is ever-growing in holiness and loyalty/obedience to Jesus and God's commands because of the gratitude of the miracle of your salvation, that is a good indicator. Not that you won't ever struggle with sin as a believer, but sin doesn’t define your life... Jesus and loving Him in obedience does. And when you sin, your default is to confess your sin with a contrite heart wanting to repent, turn away from that sin and back to Christ. Now, the mark of a maturing Christian is growing into deeper places of humility and applying it in the way you do life, not because you're trying to be a better person, but because it is the natural result of a deepening understanding of The Gospel, Jesus's heart, and your depravity apart from Him. (Sanctification)

3. You love His Word. You hunger for studying the Word and going deeper into the truths of The Gospel and how God reveals Himself in scripture. You believe in The Word's inerrancy. You long for Truth, as God reveals it in Scripture according to His attributes and His redemptive plan, not your own personal interpretation and application. (Sound Doctrine)

4. You believe in The Trinity, that the Godhead is three distinct persons in one. Father, Son, Holy Spirit -- each with equal divinity, equal value, different functions (not to be confused with modalism which believes each person of The Trinity is different manifestations of one person). (Good Theology)

5. Your thoughts, values and choices look less and less like the world and what's acceptable in society and start to look more like Christ's Bride being cleansed by the water that is The Word, and Jesus is the Word made flesh, so you're conforming more in Christ's image rather than the world's or your own image.(Sanctification). This is throughout all your life until you get to Heaven and are presented by Jesus to Himself as completely blameless/sin-free. (Glorification)

If you'd like scriptural support for these points, comment "Scripture please!" I'll message you for your personal study & encouragement 🩷

23/11/2023

"I WILL PRAISE GOD'S NAME IN SONG AND GLORIFY HIM WITH THANKSGIVING."
🍂 1 Thessalonians 5:18

"And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him."
🍂 Colossians 3:17

"Praise the Lord. Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; his love endures forever."
🍂 Psalm 106:1

Happy Thanksgiving!! There is indeed much to be thankful for! First of all, apologies for being quiet on my social media, email and blogging activities. The first trimester of my pregnancy has been keeping me from being as productive as I'd like to be with brain fog, nausea, headaches, and most of all, extreme fatigue. One or two activities like cooking, doing dishes, even talking on the phone for a lengthy amount of time renders me useless afterwards for the rest of the day. I'm 10 wks now, so the second trimester is approaching; with that, hopefully more energy and less debilitating symptoms, at which point I'll continue producing content for you on a regular basis 🩷 Until then, you'll hear from me sporadically. My husband has been pulling more than his fair share with working incredibly hard to provide (now that I'm home full-time indefinitely) for our household's regular needs now and the future but also to buy our first home in the Spring. Now that I'm not able to do what I'm used to, he has also been cleaning as much as he can, cooking or bringing home meals for us, fetching things for me while I'm laid out on the couch or bed, and comforting me when my symptoms get unbearable. I know he is happy to do it, but it is not by any means easy for him, so please pray for strength and peace for Eric, my husband. Of course please continue to pray for a healthy baby and safe delivery (June 2024).

Today, I will be bringing homemade cranberry sauce and pumpkin flan to our family meal. I'm glad that I was able to plan out cooking things that require refrigeration to complete over a couple of days so that I wouldn't over-exert myself. What are some things you're cooking for Thanksgiving?

Thank you for your support and patience. Some of you have been so wonderful to send me messages and emails with well wishes and checking in on how I'm doing. I pray for you daily and love you!

In Christ,

Shauna Bremenkamp
www.solagratialife.com

31/10/2023

Happy Reformation Day!
We celebrate this important day that propelled the Protestant Reformation (October 31, 1517) when German priest, theologian, hymnwriter, professor, and Augustinian friar Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses in defiance of the papal indulgences and the defense of the true Gospel that is faithful to what the early church fathers, some who were disciples of Jesus's disciples. Soli Deo Gloria

17/10/2023

Looking for a great book for your next Women's book club? Check out my review of "Twelve Extraordinary Women: How God Shaped Women of The Bible and What He Wants to Do with You" by Dr. John MacArthur.

I love recommending this to women, but this is a great read FOR ANY CHRISTIAN NOT JUST WOMEN as it's theologically rich yet easily digestible.

P.S., how I can have a 100.9 fever and still power through 20 minutes of filming for a video but get instant brain fog when trying to do anything else (like manage household logistics and writing devotionals which I love doing) is 🤯 Is it because talking is something that takes less brain power for me than anything else? 🤔😜

⬇️ Click for the video below ⬇️

Book review on "Twelve Extraordinary Women: How God Shaped Them And What He Wants to Do with You" by John MacArthur

17/10/2023

❤️The Roots of God's Love ❤️

If you trust in Jesus Christ, His perfect life, His death on The Cross and resurrection from the grave God showers a special grace upon you. God's love for you is the greatest love one could ever know -- it is glorious, sacrificial, a mighty fortress, unchanging, and permanent...
..To be covered with Christ's righteousness, saved from God's wrath on the Day of Judgement, and enjoy God's special grace over our lives are things we ought to remember and be grateful for daily. And yet, we have to go beyond what benefits us with our salvation as well. We tend to think of The Cross in terms of what it accomplished for us. We see ourselves as the focus of Jesus' death; that He died to rescue us from judgement and hell, for our eternal glory when we reach Heaven. All of those things are certainly true. God chose us before the foundation of the world to have our names written in the Book of Life and once adopted into His family, lavishes His love upon us all the days of our lives. Be that as it may, if we want to live and think in a way that honors the Lord and is faithful to the full context of The Bible, we must view The Cross not with our eyes, but from Heaven's perspective...

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14/10/2023

🧡 Where Do We Look To For Our Worth? 🧡

One of the main questions we ask ourselves either consciously or subconsciously is, “what is my worth”? There is something innately within our souls that long for something to fulfill us. That feeling truly comes from a yearning for God.

Colossians 1:16-17 tells us that we were made by God and we were made FOR God. Genesis 1:26-28 says that we are made in God’s image. This is the basis of our purpose in the world — to glorify God as His image-bearers. Now let’s look at Romans 3:23 which says that as God’s image-bearers, we are all equal. We are equal in dignity and worth, and we are also fallen equally. Here is where our wonderful design by God and the beautiful longing for being fulfilled by God and the enjoyment of His presence sees trouble… because we are fallen creatures.

In the beginning, the universe was empty and void, as it says in Genesis 1:1. Our Holy Triune God filled the void with His very breath by speaking everything into existence. Over six days, God filled the empty world with light and darkness, the air and sky, the cosmos outside of the world, the land and sea and all living creatures including mankind.

“For the LORD is God, and he created the heavens and earth and put everything in place. He made the world to be lived in, not to be a place of empty chaos. “I am the LORD,” he says, “and there is no other.” (Isaiah 45:18)

Without God, we are nothing — we wouldn’t even exist or have breath of life. When we feel empty, unsatisfied, invaluable, remember to put out of your mind the things of this world for the created is empty without The Creator. 1 Corinthians 7:29-31 tells us not to cling tightly to the things of this world either by our own hands or with our minds. Ecclesiastes 5:7 says “For in many dreams and in many words there is emptiness. Rather, fear God”

Due to sin entering the world from the original sin of Adam and Eve, our sin nature will always want to please ourselves in some way or another (see 1 John 2:16), but what we are truly yearning, yet going about in the wrong way, is to have our emptiness filled by God. Although our sin nature remains, our dignity also remains even after the fall into sin. In Genesis 9:5-6 and James 3:9 God reminds us that man is made in God’s image and that if we insult or attack an image bearer of God (that’s all of mankind, believer or not) you are insulting and attacking God:

And for your lifeblood I will require a reckoning: from every beast I will require it and from man. From his fellow man I will require a reckoning for the life of man. “Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed, for God made man in his own image.” (Genesis 9:5-6)

“With [our tongue] we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse people who are made in the likeness of God.” (James 3:9)

Therefore, we should not punish ourselves by focusing on our sin for too long without also noting God’s grace and our own dignity, especially because the truth is, our sins have been washed and our souls redeemed. Along with our inherant dignity as image bearers of God, it has been added to us the righteousness of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Saviour. We can be reassured of this by reading the writings of the Apostle Paul in God’s Holy Word. He never mentions the depth of even his own sin without also mentioning God’s grace:

1 Corinthians 15:9-10: “For I am the least of the apostles and do not even deserve to be called an apostle… But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me was not without effect.”
1 Timothy 1:16: Paul calls himself the “foremost of sinners,” but also notes, “yet for this reason I found mercy…that in me, Christ Jesus might display his immense patience…”.
We can say the same of ourselves. No matter what we have done or thought, God’s grace continually works in us. To deny or fail to acknowledge this truth is to say that God’s grace is in vain. Certainly it is right to take time for self-examination, confession, and repentance. But we should eventually come back to God’s grace and our own dignity stemming from being made in the image of God. As fallen yet redeemed creatures, praise Jesus, we are recipients of a special Grace as adopted sons and daughters of The Most High. As such, since the moment of our salvation, we are being “conformed to the image of his Son” as Romans 8:29 reminds us. Jesus is the perfect, untainted, wholly righteous representative of the image of God, and we are being made more like him throughout our earthly lives. That is where our worth is ultimately found.

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