Here is a song we need to hear as the pandemic is still with us…. Read more
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One of my favorite female artists is Sheryl Crowe. She was raised in the church, and has come back home to it in recent years. She went through breast cancer and a mastectomy, and also the infidelities and lies of Lance Armstrong. This song is one of my favorites which is talking about the source of love, God, always being on our side despite all the things that go wrong, and our lack of understanding things. Read more
STEADFAST Steadfast. God is quite steadfast I thought I’d stop and feast that But He said… ‘instead fast’. Because it means we failed him Because we’re just not true Because we test his patience By what we say and do. Not good in a pandemic Not good when things go right Not good at waiting for it Not good in a close fight Not good at loving others? Who don’t look just like us? Not good at... Read more
Q. I think you are right that the moral influence of the death of Jesus is vast, but only if we also realize that his death was a penal substitutionary atonement which propitiates and also expiates. It should have been us on the cross, paying for our sins. It seems to me that the best case for explaining all this is the necessitarian one—the God of love and mercy could not simply take a pass on dealing with sin, or... Read more
Q. Like with the statement ‘forgiveness offered is not the same as forgiveness received’ on pp. 256-57 you make the important point that if a person rejects God’s saving grace, rejects his offer of substitute payment by Christ for sin, then such a person remains guilty for the sins they commit, and faces the legitimate punishment for said sins. This conclusion, it seems to me only really makes sense if we accept a non-Reformed view of salvation, namely that it... Read more
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