Month: September 2015

When We Are Thankful for God’s Control

I’m preaching through Romans on Sunday mornings in our worship services. In fact, I’ve been preaching through Romans for what some feel to be forever (actually only since January). Nevertheless, our time in Romans has yielded great fruit as we have wrestled together with many of the great truths expounded by Paul in his systmatic …

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A Zeal According to Knowledge

Should we feel deeply or think carefully? Yes. It is an unfortunate reality in the church that we often create a false dichotomy between knowledge of the things about God and a zeal for him. In reality, biblical Chrisitanity is a religion that feels very deeply but that also thinks and considers very carefully. Our …

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Alive in Christ

Romans 8:5-11.

Are you living according to the Spirit?

Study the Whole Bible

I was thrilled this week when I read that someone elese shares my concerns about word studies. William Barrack writes about his concerns in The Word Study Fallacy. It used to be that the primary concern for Word study failures was with first semester Greek or Hebrew students who had suddenly discovered a brand new …

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