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Clear searchWhat mercy, holiness and the cross reveal about God
Two Revelations of Divine Love What mercy, holiness and the cross reveal about God Love is easily claimed. Its character is revealed by what it does when the beloved is undeserving and the cost is real. Islam and Christianity both sp…
Read article →How the Lord knows His own—and how their lives bear His name
…Christ, they must not hand their bodies back to the mastery of sin. Grace did not reduce holiness to an optional improvement for unusually committed Christians. It placed every believer under a new claim. We do not depart from iniquity in order to persuade Christ to receive us.…
Read article →Unity in Christ and distinction in God's purpose
…d by faith, promises mercy to natural branches, and grounds the entire arrangement in the holiness of the root. What about Abraham's seed? All who belong to Christ are Abraham's seed and heirs according to the promise (Galatians 3:29). This is glorious inclusion. Gentile believer…
Read article →Near-death experiences, neuroscience, and the authority of Christ
…e brain, but it also rejects a vague afterlife of disembodied light detached from Christ, holiness, resurrection and the purposes of God. Christian hope is more substantial than survival. It is redemption. The authority on the other side of death Tal Brooke's book fascinated me b…
Read article →The incarnation, the limits of created perspective and the love philosophy could not imagine
…sordered. Perfect humanity did not require emotional detachment. At the grave of Lazarus, holiness wept. The world associated greatness with rising above service. Christ washed His disciples’ feet. The world associated power with invulnerability. Christ was crucified. The world i…
Read article →How the Law reaches its goal and appointed end in Christ
…ath." —Romans 6:21 He then contrasts that former life with service to God, whose fruit is holiness and whose "end" is everlasting life (Romans 6:22). In both verses telos describes the result or final outcome of a course. Elsewhere Paul writes that "the end of the commandment is…
Read article →Responding to five common criticisms without defending what Scripture does not require
…of every divine purpose and the only ground of redemption. Prophecy should produce hope, holiness, and confidence in God's character—not speculation for its own sake. Dispensationalism is not the gospel, and no interpretive system is inspired. It is a framework to be tested, ref…
Read article →Why the Son assumed a complete human nature, not merely a body
…s wholly obedient to the Father. There was no sin or rebellion in that natural shrinking. Holiness does not require a man to regard agony as pleasant. Obedience is displayed precisely because the costly path is knowingly and willingly embraced. Later Christian teaching would spea…
Read article →What 'yea and Amen' in Christ means for Israel and the covenants
…make little sense. The same principle would threaten the Church. Christians are called to holiness, warned against apostasy, disciplined for sin, and commanded to persevere. Churches in Revelation are even threatened with the removal of their candlesticks. If human failure automa…
Read article →Fulfilment in Christ, the inclusion of the Gentiles, and Israel's future mercy
…). These are not expressions of a merely political nationalism. They include forgiveness, holiness, deliverance, and faithful service before God. Israel's true hope was always spiritual as well as national. Jesus later promised the Twelve that in "the regeneration" they would sit…
Read article →Why Israel's failure cannot make the word of God fail
…God would not have been more faithful by ignoring idolatry, injustice, and unbelief. His holiness required judgement. Solomon praised God because not one word of the promised blessing had failed (1 Kings 8:56); later generations discovered that not one word of the threatened jud…
Read article →History, heresy, and the temptation of private Christianity
…chment to an accountable local church? Does increasing knowledge produce increasing love, holiness, patience, and service? No single affirmative answer establishes Gnosticism. A cluster reveals a posture that deserves correction. Where the accusation fails Representative evangeli…
Read article →Jesus and the fountain of living water
…s sufficiency, not to our importance. Living water flows outward when the love, truth and holiness of Christ are made visible through ordinary believers. It flows in prayer, patient service, faithful witness, generosity, endurance, forgiveness and words which point another thirst…
Read article →The LORD, Zion, and the meaning of Beulah in Isaiah 62:4–5
…the nation was to dwell before Him, receive His law, maintain His sanctuary, display His holiness, and mediate blessing to the nations. Israel belongs in the land because God joined the seed of Abraham to that land in covenant promise. “Thy Sons Shall Marry Thee” Isaiah intensif…
Read article →A response to Michael Horton on the land promise, Amos 9, and the people of God
…rivilege never excuses unbelief. The nation experienced exile precisely because God takes holiness and justice seriously. Yet the prophets do not allow judgement to have the final word. Beyond dispersion they see regathering; beyond uncleanness, cleansing; beyond hardness, a new…
Read article →An unrequited love for the historic Church
…with immunity from correction. Some prize theological information while neglecting love, holiness, patience and service. Some speak as though two thousand years of Christian thought contain nothing worth hearing. Others gather around gifted personalities with less accountability…
Read article →Spiritual ecstasy, altered states, and discerning what is from God
…to prove what is acceptable to Him. What fruit does it produce? Does it lead to humility, holiness, truth, love, and obedience? Or does it produce spiritual pride, fascination with extraordinary experiences, and dependence upon a teacher, substance, or technique? Good feelings al…
Read article →The near was real. The far is still coming.
…divine intervention creates another crisis. The inhabitants of Zion must reckon with the holiness of the God who has arisen. Who can dwell with everlasting burnings? “The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the dev…
Read article →Two accounts of judgement, mercy, and the sinner's hope before God
…tion as its intended fruit; they do not become its price. That protects both humility and holiness. Nobody can boast in a moral balance, and nobody can use grace as permission to cherish sin. Why assurance is possible If my final hope rests upon the quality of my record, I must c…
Read article →The Gospel, Human Perception, and the Illuminating Work of the Holy Spirit
…t mean indifference. The Creator has a rightful claim upon His creation, and His love and holiness concern the lives He gives. To ask why God cares when we deceive someone is also to ask why the God of truth should care about falsehood. To ask why He cares when we exploit someone…
Read article →The positive argument of the whole series, brought together
…tive systems, and places the doctrine within its pastoral purpose: expectancy, endurance, holiness, service, and comfort. The book page includes purchase links for the Kindle and paperback editions, both now available on Amazon.
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