Word Study – ‘Faith’
This is a brief and by no means comprehensive word study on ‘faith’ in the New Testament. Faith has a noun, a verb and an adjective. The noun pistis can be rendered in English as [ Read More … ]
MonthMarch 2017
From Jesus Creed: Is Salvation by Allegiance a Kind of Works?
It is inappropriate, then, to suggest that God’s gift of the Messiah, if the gift is accepted and subsequently held, would be ineffective in bringing about God’s transformative aims. So we should not set grace [ Read More … ]
Book Review – McRaney, W., The Art of Personal Evangelism
This is a book on evangelism. It was written to address the major foundational and practical issues surrounding personal evangelism with the express intent to reverse the church’s decline. Link: Amazon Length: 283 Difficulty: Medium [ Read More … ]
From NTWrightPage: Historical Paul and ‘Systematic Theology’
A long article with interesting content. The Jewish context, and all the rich blend of history, suffering, prophecy, aspiration and expectation that it contained, is a non-negotiable element of the meaning of Jesus. Perhaps I [ Read More … ]
Calvin’s Institutes – 2.7.17 – For the rites of ablution and sacrifice, by which the Jews were consecrated to the Lord, separated them from the Gentiles
Calvin rarely says things which reflect New Perspective teaching. This is one instance. Commenting on Colossians and Ephesians he shows the ceremonies of the law separated the Jews from the Gentiles. This is part of [ Read More … ]
Calvin’s Institutes – 2.7.1 – By the Law, I understand the whole system of religion delivered by the hand of Moses
Calvin at first defines the law to be the sum total of everything commanded by Moses. He also gives his opinion on what is required by the law for righteousness. This is part of my [ Read More … ]
From Gospel Coalition: How to Raise Changing Children in a Changing Culture
Just when you understand babies, they’re already toddlers—with an entirely new parenting job description. The toddler then heads to preschool—and to elementary school, middle school, and high school—with further changes each step of the way. And [ Read More … ]
From Jesus Creed: What Allegiance (Faith) is Not
One can at least draw attention to implications of the gospel preached and the demand preached in our churches, not the least of which would be 50% church attendance, common attendance being sitting in a [ Read More … ]
From Babylon Bee: 7 Fashion Tips To Help Your Pastor Stay Relevant
A wise man once said that the single greatest cause of atheism in the world today is Christians who acknowledge Jesus with their lips—and then walk out the door and deny him with their lack [ Read More … ]
From Pete Enns: The Bible: Why “original author” is overrated
If you know how Wikipedia works, you have a good idea of how the authorship of biblical books went down: an anonymous text is added to over time, but none of the additions are screaming [ Read More … ]