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Clear searchA quiet invitation to draw near to Christ
…woman and her beloved. Yet her reluctance to be looked upon gives us a familiar picture. Shame makes us want to turn away. We assume that being fully seen can only mean being found wanting. Then, later in the song, we hear the beloved’s words: “Thou art all fair, my love; there…
Read article →Two failures, two responses, and the difference between remorse and repentance
…away, the damage becomes clear, and conscience begins to speak. We may feel guilt, grief, shame, fear, or even disgust with ourselves. Yet sorrow by itself is not repentance. The Bible presents two sobering examples in Judas Iscariot and Simon Peter. Both men were disciples of Je…
Read article →The incarnation, the limits of created perspective and the love philosophy could not imagine
…ans 1:23–24 The philosophers looked at the cross and saw the negation of deity: weakness, shame, suffering and death. Paul pointed to the same crucified Christ and declared: there is the power and wisdom of God. Christianity does not rescue God from the embarrassment of the cross…
Read article →How the Law reaches its goal and appointed end in Christ
…ge. In Romans 6 he asks believers what fruit they had in the sins of which they were now ashamed: "For the end of those things is death." —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)…
Read article →The event is explicit; the real dispute is its timing
…The New Testament repeatedly commands believers to watch, remain sober, and avoid being ashamed before Christ. But those warnings do not divide Christ's body into raptured and abandoned members. Paul does not say that the most mature of the dead will rise first. He says, "the de…
Read article →Signs, expectancy, and the event the Church is told to await
…apostolic exhortations. John warns believers to abide in Christ so that they will not be ashamed "before him at his coming" (1 John 2:28). James says, "the coming of the Lord draweth nigh" and "the judge standeth before the door" (James 5:8-9). Paul includes himself among those w…
Read article →The LORD, Zion, and the meaning of Beulah in Isaiah 62:4–5
…ill no longer bear a name defined by estrangement. God’s settled delight will replace the shame of abandonment. Beulah: “Married” The land also receives a new name: “And thy land Beulah.” Beulah represents the Hebrew bəʿûlâ, a feminine passive form derived from the verb bāʿal. In…
Read article →A response to Hank Hanegraaff on resurrection, Daniel’s final week, and the Tribulation
…people, their deliverance and the resurrection of some to everlasting life and others to shame (Daniel 12:1–3). AD 70 provides no resurrection corresponding to that conclusion. Revelation’s crisis is wider than Rome and Jerusalem Revelation gathers the same prophetic themes on a…
Read article →Creation, judgement, and the coming reign of Christ
…giving, and every steward will answer to the returning Lord. Other cultures can sometimes shame Christians at this point. Watching NHK, I am often struck by the care visible in programmes about Japanese village life: the attention given to gardening techniques, soil, water, seaso…
Read article →Not escape from the body, but its redemption
…it. That does not mean every feature of fallen existence carries forward unchanged. Sin, shame, rivalry, disability, disease and death do not define our true identity. God can preserve the person while removing everything which corrupts the person. Indeed, only then will we be f…
Read article →The brothers of Jesus, the sons of Mary, and an argument of strong plausibility
…ected account extending from verses 7 to 12: “Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face. I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother’s children. For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that rep…
Read article →The glory philosophy could not contain
…frame not as a distant observer, but as One who has made human nature His own. He is not ashamed to call His people brethren. Our humanity has not been thrown away; in Christ it has entered the presence of God. That fact alone overturns the idea that matter is a stain to be clean…
Read article →The positive argument of the whole series, brought together
…the door (James 5:8-9). John warns believers to abide in Christ so that they will not be ashamed before Him at His coming (1 John 2:28). Imminency does not mean that Christ was required to return within the apostles' lifetime or that believers may set dates. It means that no reve…
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