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The Cross of Christ Declares that We are Greatly Loved (Part 1 – The...
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 6:23 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the...
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The Cross of Christ Declares that We are Greatly Loved (Part 2)
In the last post we considered the threefold nature of a good gift: it is sacrificial, it is appropriate to the receiver, and it is surprising. We looked at the sacrificial nature of the cross of...
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The Cross of Christ Declares that We are Greatly Loved (Part 3)
It is the glory of God to conceal a matter, But the glory of kings is to search out a matter. Proverbs 25:2 Surprise! As I write this, today is my wife’s birthday, and I have been concealing a very...
View ArticleImages of Atonement
‘Images’ of salvation (or of the atonement) is a better term than ‘theories’. For theories are usually abstract and speculative concepts, whereas the biblical images of the atoning achievement of...
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“Radical” Grace is the Only True Gospel
Helpless guy giving no assistance to his rescuers! In his seminal book “The Cross of Christ”, John R. W. Stott points out that scripture gives us four images of the accomplishment achieved by the cross...
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The Cross of Christ Declares that Virtue Does Not Secure Blessing
Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised...
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Why Is Grace a Scandal?
19 Therefore, brethren, since we have confidence to enter the holy place by the blood of Jesus, 20 by a new and living way which He inaugurated for us through the veil, that is, His flesh, 21 and...
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Eat My Flesh and Drink My Blood!!!
If I came up to you and said, “you can’t be with me unless you eat my flesh,” you would rightly assume that I had utterly lost all contact with reality. Even people with the most shocking face tattoos...
View ArticleLaw and Gospel – Why so Important?
There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves punishment, and the one who fears is not perfected in love. 1 John 4:18 NASB I think people on the outside of the...
View ArticleThe Cross of Christ Declares God’s Answer to the Problem of Evil
I was recently in a discussion with a group (cloud? pride? flock?) of atheists, and very predictably it came down to a discussion of the problem of evil. How can there be a God if there is cancer and...
View ArticleThe Cross of Christ Defines the Real Gospel
15 It is a trustworthy statement, deserving full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, among whom I am foremost of all. 16 Yet for this reason I found mercy, so that in me...
View ArticleThe Cross of Christ Defines the Real Gospel – part 2
15 It is a trustworthy statement, deserving full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, among whom I am foremost of all. 16 Yet for this reason I found mercy, so that in me...
View ArticleThoughts on Communion
23 For I received from the Lord that which I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus in the night in which He was betrayed took bread; 24 and when He had given thanks, He broke it and said, “This...
View ArticleJesus Eats with Drag Queens?
I have been asked numerous times about what I think about church discipline. Well, I hate it. I have no specific policy about it. I just want everyone to be perfect and stop all the nonsense without...
View ArticleGospel Imperatives
17 Now this I say and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds. 18 They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God...
View ArticleWoe is Me!
“Woe is me, for I am ruined! Because I am a man of unclean lips, And I live among a people of unclean lips; For my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts.” 6 Then one of the seraphim flew to me...
View ArticleHearing from God
“Come now, and let us reason together,” Says the LORD, “Though your sins are as scarlet, They will be as white as snow; Though they are red like crimson, They will be like wool. Isaiah 1:18 One of the...
View ArticleDigging for Gold – Gospel Astonishment
I haven’t posted in a while. I’ve been doing a lot of stuff though – preaching and pastoring a church, working a “bivocational” full-time job, finishing up a new book, and just taking some time to do...
View ArticleHello, My Name is Almighty God!
6 For a child will be born to us, a son will be given to us; And the government will rest on His shoulders; And His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of...
View ArticleHe was Pleased
10 But the LORD was pleased To crush Him, putting Him to grief; If He would render Himself as a guilt offering, He will see His offspring, He will prolong His days, And the good pleasure of the LORD...
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