some thoughts

I find it interesting how often Paul appealed to Caesar, or made his status as a Roman citizen known to his accusers.
They seemed to back off quite quickly; to be a Roman citizen must’ve carried with it many benefits. As a Roman citizen, he was under the rulership of Caesar - but there was […]

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Bob over at Gratitude & Hoopla has written a mighty word of praise and exhortation, called That Your Joy May Be Full!. Definitely worth a read (and probably an occasional re-read)!
It just doesn’t get any better than the gospel - straight up. Thanks, Bob.

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Hast Thou no scar?
No hidden scar on foot, or side, or hand?
I hear thee sung as mighty in the land,
I hear them hail Thy bright, ascendant star,
Hast thou no scar?
Hast Thou no wound?
Yet I was wounded by the archers, spent,
Leaned Me against a tree to die; and rent
By ravening beasts that compassed me, I swooned:
Hast […]

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Consider this command and its divinely inspired meaning:
[An the Lord continued,] …It is the Lord’s Passover. For I will pass through the land of Egypt that night, and I will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and on all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I […]

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Sir, we would see Jesus. (John 12:21, KJV).
Is it wrong to be unsatisfied with the picture of Christ shown to us in the Bible?
That depends, I think, on what we mean by unsatisfied. If we mean “uninterested, in such a way that we look elsewhere for satisfaction,” then yes. Or, if we mean “unconvinced, in […]

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I haven’t been reading or listening to John Piper nearly as much as I used to (partially because I’ve already read nearly every book he’s written!), but I did read something today that I just had to point out: Don’t Waste Your Cancer.
Only Piper could talk about cancer like this. Even if you just read […]

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One more thought about evil (maybe two). I said in my last post that, the entrance of evil–or at least the potential entrance of evil–was, at least possibly, a necessary outcome of anything other than God coming into existence. Someone may yet say, “even then, God decided to create, and–though it was an indirect outcome, […]

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It is true to say that God created mankind with the capacity to sin.
But I think it is better to say, and to think, that God created us not God. Or, creatures are not the Creator. That is, it is precisely because we’re not God–because we’re creatures–that we have the capacity for sin. Only […]

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