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April 30, 2016
This comes at the end of a chapter affirming the resurrection of Christ. His way of thinking, believing, doing and relating to everything and everybody was more enduring than death. That is a fact that bears advantageously upon all other human life. There is a way of...
April 29, 2016
Some of the Corinthians were professing unbelief in the prospect of a general resurrection. Paul runs the argument backwards. He says the repudiation of the resurrection at the last day necessarily involves the repudiation of God's resurrection of Jesus. This would h...
April 28, 2016
Once in history, a person who convinced his contemporaries that he was as human--or more so--than they were, died a horrible, public death, was buried in a known grave, and within three days walked, talked, ate and spoke with, hundreds of his friends and adherents. Be...
April 27, 2016
Despite it being the "good, glad, and merry tidings that causeth the hard to sing and the feet to dance," the gospel of Christ is not the default mindset of human nature. It needs to be preached to the world, and to believers--repeatedly. For this reason, Christians o...
April 26, 2016
When grandma came to visit, she would often raise her index finger and solemnly warn me that 'little children should be seen but not heard.' Hers was a wisdom widely acknowledged, then. Today the same vintage sagacity survives in different guises. In its most extreme f...
April 25, 2016
Many a betrayed lover might well question that assertion. But the writer would not contest the myriad instances of love's demise within human relationships. Rather, he seeks to highlight the provisional nature of things other than love, to which some religious folk att...
April 24, 2016
Altruism is not necessarily honorable. Humans are known to behave in ostensibly noble ways for base reasons. This helps explain why there are people who are dedicated and idealistic, who are nevertheless calculating, cold and mean. Much religion is like this, and rel...
April 23, 2016
Paul is using the human body as a metaphor for the church. The local church that realizes the ideal here envisaged, is a great church family to belong to. Every person is important; every one valuable. It hardly needs to be said, that the same principle applied to the...
April 22, 2016
A secular, or an apostate society, does have its standards, but they are seldom true or good. Without God the supreme moral arbiter, humanity is reduced to superstition. Fearing not God, it fears all else--disease, death, natural catastrophe, economic hardship, materia...
April 21, 2016
The propensity to reverence one's own beliefs and customs more than the values of God is a universal human propensity. We are all natural-born Pharisees. Far easier to try to get God to sign off on our tradition than to submit to the searing moral challenge inherent in...
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This testimonial comments on God’s faithfulness to his people, Israel during a period of its history marked by serial apostasy and idolatry. God’s de...
“But the Lord was gracious to them and had compassion and showed concern for them because of the covenant with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. To this day h...
June 16, 2016
Yes, WE TOO. That is to say, even the lawful, moral and devout ought not believe in their own decency and piety. They ought not do so because it is fa...
" . . .So we too have put our faith in Christ Jesus that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by observing the law" (Galatians 2:1...
March 27, 2016
This is not a maxim which should be used say, by an investor in the stock market, as an insurance to guarantee profits. It is not a promise of short t...
"Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously" (2 Corinthians 9:6).
November 21, 2016