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miraculality: a truth that is real yet so wonderful and amazing and invisible that it must be of God and must require faith Read more
miraculality: a truth that is real yet so wonderful and amazing and invisible that it must be of God and must require faith Read more
Galatians 2:11-21 Theologically, I say with St. Paul that “a man is not justified by the works of the law but by faith in Jesus Christ.” Devotionally, which is to say theologically in a personal and applied way, I say with St. Paul, “I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God,... Read more
Be inflexible in the essential things in life and flexible in the less essential things. Read more
What is the 4-part gospel in Galatians 1? Read more
Heresy begins not in the head but in the heart. Read more
John 4:43-54 How many of you would like to participate in a miracle this morning? What? Only a few of you? Let me see your hands: how many of you would like to participate in a miracle this morning? (Hmmmm. It’s more difficult to count virtual hands than I’d anticipated!) Good! Keep that in mind as you hear the Word of the Lord this morning, because this morning God is offering you a chance to participate in a miracle He... Read more
John 4:27-42 “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to finish His work.” If you’ve read the New Testament enough times, this saying may be familiar to you. It may, regrettably, be so familiar to you that little meaning remains in it for you. But when Jesus says in verse 34 that “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to finish His work He is saying something so... Read more
John 4:15-26 Imagine that you are living in the first century, before the advent of Jesus Christ. You are a Jew, or a Samaritan, and you have the Old Testament and you believe it is the oracle of God. And so you understand that God has promised a Messiah, as even the Samaritan woman at the well understood. This Messiah was supposed to be the royal Son of David who would bring victory and prosperity to the nation of Israel... Read more
John 4:1-14 Sometimes the most common things are the most special and holy. Take water. Water is one of the most common substances found on earth. Chemically, it’s a very simply one as well, composed only of 1 oxygen and 2 hydrogen atoms. It comprises 70% of the surface of the earth. And yet it’s one of the most amazing substances God ever created. We don’t see how special it is because it is so common, as is the... Read more
John 3:22-36 “He must increase, but I must decrease.” This is a good verse to live by. Oh, it’s not likely to make anyone’s Top 100 verses, but I still think it’s pretty cool. Isn’t this the essence of the Christian life: that He must increase, but I must decrease? If you think about it, it’s just another way of saying that we must crucify the Old Man and put on Christ or that if we save our life... Read more
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