Category Archives: Bible & Theology

24
Apr

We Set Out To Control The Impossible To Avoid Responsibility For The Possible

We Have More Control Than We Think | Michael Hyatt. This is a great post from 2009 by Mike Hyatt. I think we not only get distracted by what we cannot control, but sometimes we want to be distracted by … Continue reading →

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22
Apr

Trinity House » What Advantage the Jew?

A sermon on Romans 3:1-8. 1 Then what advantage has the Jew? Or what is the value of circumcision? 2 Much in every way. To begin with, the Jews were entrusted with the oracles of God. A lot of people … Continue reading →

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4
Apr

Facing the Future With Paul’s Letter to the Romans

If you want a generic gospel presentation written out in what Christians in North America today might call ‘doctrinal form,” you would probably be best served by Paul’s letter to the Ephesians. It presents human salvation through the work of … Continue reading →

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19
Mar

Did the Jews of Jesus’ day think that they were without sin?

One issue that commonly comes up in reading the Gospels or Paul’s epistles is the allegation that the conservative Jews in Jesus’ day believed that they were righteous enough to earn standing with God. I don’t find any evidence for … Continue reading →

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17
Mar

Be your own miserable coach chasing you and yelling at you from the comfort of his golf cart

I have “decided” I should try to run regularly. I used “decided” in quotation marks for now. I think decisions are almost as hard to pin down as the absolute moment of the present, that infinitesimal razor’s edge separating past … Continue reading →

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14
Mar

Liberated from those passions, saved by His life

Just noticed something else about Romans 6: For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions… (Romans 1:26a) Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions (Romans 6:12). I say something else … Continue reading →

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5
Feb

Romans 1.18-25 condemns Israel

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to … Continue reading →

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21
Jan

Dying To Self: Adam’s Challenge In Eden to Become the King He Was

In basic Evangelical Christian teaching, “sanctification” is a process in which a believer, by the working of God’s Spirit, is able more and more to put off sin and live in more complete obedience to God. That way of summarizing … Continue reading →

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9
Jan

You have to remember what you want

Yesterday, about 4:30 in the afternoon, I was sitting at my work table and thought about two options: Go take a nap. Keep working. I thought I chose #2, but in fact I was mistaken about what my choices were. … Continue reading →

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19
Nov

Jeff Meyers on what kind of community the Decalogue proposes

The Ten Words are intended to form a particular type of society. A community of people . . . 1. that put their trust in the true God (“In God we trust”), 2. that worship God in a fitting way, … Continue reading →

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