Comfort and God’s Power
Isaiah 40 begins with an exhortation to comfort: “Comfort, comfort my people, says your God. Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and cry to her that her warfare is ended, that…
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Baptism and Circumcision: An Important Distinction
Two passages are often conflated when thinking about the subjects of circumcision and baptism. Read these (and the greater contexts) first: Colossians 2:11-13: “In him also you were circumcised with…
Love and Social Media
1 Corinthians And Its Original Audience We all know 1 Corinthians 13 for its elaborations on love. But I want to remind us of a few elements that tend to…
What Does it Mean to Forgive?
Sin has destructive consequences on many levels, often involving not just the person or persons who sinned, but also affecting a number of others. Family, friends, coworkers, and others within…
We Must Die to Live
“I have to die to get better.” Have you felt that way? You feel so sick that you about wish you would go ahead and die so that you…
Under Grace
“For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace” (Rom 6:14). By this point in Romans, Paul had been laying out his…
Jesus and Isaac: God is For Us
The story of Abraham sacrificing Isaac (Genesis 22), the son of the promise, has long been seen as a prefiguring of God sacrificing Jesus, His unique Son. There are similarities…
A Guide to Judging Others
“Jesus said not to judge others,” didn’t He? We are often reminded of this because in today’s culture, one thing is made very clear: we aren’t supposed to judge anyone!…