I’m convinced 1 Cor 15 is the best passage on the gospel in the entire bible. I’m constantly amazed at how few Christians even know of this passage, Let alone can explain the gospel from it. [ Read More … ]
From Galatians 4-6 Initially in Galatians, Paul commands the Gentiles not to observe the works of law. If they do they will be abandoning Christ and falling from grace. Today we look at the later chapters. [ Read More … ]
When the apostles went around preaching the gospel what did they say? Are their any summary texts describing their gospel ministry? What about the epistles? The audiences the epistles were written to already believe the [ Read More … ]
From Galatians 1-3 Sometimes people can seek to please man rather than God. Its easy to avoid persecution and alienation by conforming to another gospel. If it is right, then good. But what if it [ Read More … ]
What did Jesus preach as the gospel? Did he even preach the gospel? Did you know that some pastors don’t even believe Jesus preached the gospel? My word search brought up a number of instances [ Read More … ]
From 2 Corinthians 10-13 Q. Does Paul ever encourage believers to look to themselves? In today’s passage he asks the Corinthians to give themselves and him a good look over to see if they are [ Read More … ]
Already Friends of God In some Christian circles, it is often said that everyone should have a personal relationship with Jesus, and that everyone should ask Jesus into his heart. These phrases assume rich truths: [ Read More … ]
So how do we go about looking at the scriptures to work out what the gospel is? You would be surprised. Most of the books I read seemed to care little about deriving from scripture [ Read More … ]
From 2 Corinthians 5-9 This post is NT Wrights argument simplified. Paul is giving the Corinthians reason to boast about the apostles. When they see or hear of the apostles sharing the gospel. Going about [ Read More … ]
“‘Gospel’ is one of those words that is so basic, so fundamental to Christian life that it can be taken for granted. It can become the term for just about anything at all in the [ Read More … ]