Ephesians 1-3 Saved by grace and created for good works
From Ephesians 1-3 God has saved us by grace and laid out in advance a great number of good works to do in our lives. Its no good resisting the works God has planned for [ Read More … ]
What is the Gospel? – 05 – Step 2 Look for definitions of the gospel
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 … ]
Galatians 4-6 Walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh
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 … ]
What is the Gospel? – 04 – Step 1 Gospel in the Acts and the Epistles
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 … ]
Galatians 1-3 If anyone is preaching to you a gospel contrary to the one you received, let him be accursed
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 is the Gospel? – 03 – Step 1 Gospel in the Gospels
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 … ]
2 Corinthians 10-13 Examine yourselves
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 … ]
Weekly Random Links
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 … ]
What is the Gospel? – 02 – Method, Categories and Framework
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 … ]
2 Corinthians 5-9 Becoming the righteousness of God
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 … ]