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We are winding down on what is arguably the most difficult of the epistles that Paul wrote. I believe that it is made difficult, at least partly, by the misunderstanding of some of its terminology and the way that Paul uses it. I do not …
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Would Jesus Christ Vote? (Part Three)
Speaking of taxes in Matthew 22:21, Jesus taught His disciples to “render . . . to Caesar the things that are Caesar's,” enjoining His disciples to pay them. This teaching parallels the general principle that Christians are …
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Lesson Learned
Yesterday evening, my son John learned an important life lesson, "courtesy" of our young Siberian Husky, Chocolate. It was finally time to cut the ankle-high grass in our backyard, so I dragged my lawnmower out of the shed and tied …
Today's Verse and Comment
Romans 5:1-2
(1) Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, (2) through whom also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
These verses follow a long section on justification by faith. Paul concludes chapter 4 with the fact that Christ's resurrection was God's evidence that Christ's work was accepted and thus ensures our justification. The word "therefore" …
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The Impossible Metric
by David C. Grabbe"The days of our lives are seventy years," writes Moses in Psalm 90:10. King David concurs: "Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow" (Psalm 144:4). Unlike God, "who inhabits eternity" (Isaiah 57:15), we mortals have a limited existence. Due to our finite time, we tend to view things through the lens of immediacy. We continually take stock of where we are and how much progress we have made toward this or that goal. We take a short-term view of time—relative to God, at least—and in our zeal for efficiency, we measure where we are against where we have been to get an idea of …
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Forerunner Magazine
Three of our four daughters have been married over the past few years. We think the world of our three sons-in-law and are now eagerly …
The church of God has long taught that God's holy days reveal His unfolding plan. The process of salvation, depicted primarily in the …
Will someone please explain how a person can be more than the sum of his parts? It seems illogical, when we consider all the parts of …
In his book, Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis makes a useful observation: The devil always sends errors into the world in pairs—pairs of …
The four gospels provide the foundation for many aspects of Christianity, "Jesus Christ Himself being the chief cornerstone" (Ephesians …
In Ephesians 4:11-16, the apostle Paul famously explains the reasons for Christ's gift of the ministry to His church: “for the …
