Holiness: He Perfects His Work
Be Holy As Your Father in Heaven is Holy (1 Peter 1:15) This is a tough command! Some even argue that the command to be holy as God is holy …
Be Holy As Your Father in Heaven is Holy (1 Peter 1:15) This is a tough command! Some even argue that the command to be holy as God is holy …
One of my favorite My Utmost entries is from Dec 2, so I had to share it today: It is a snare to imagine that God wants to make us perfect specimens of …
For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believers, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. …
For far too long now Christians have told the story of Jesus as if it hooked up not with the story of Israel, but simply with the story of human …
When God fulfills his World Renewal Plan through Jesus, his Son, he is not only setting up a government (Kingdom metaphor), but also creating a family. This, once again, means …
There is a crucial connection to be made between human behavior and human nature. Living beings behave according to their nature. If God prescribes a certain kind of human behavior it …
So I'm upping the ante on my reading in apocalyptic and eschatological literature. I encountered this quote yesterday and thought it worth sharing: Ideas have consequences. . . . At worst, …
Various people have various definitions of the Gospel of Christianity. Most North American protestant evangelicals would define the Gospel as the story of the substitutionary atonement in the Cross through …
Excerpt from Holiness in Fresh Perspective: Covenant, Cross, and Kingdom (Wipf and Stock) God’s promises David that his offspring would be the one with the eternal anointing to rule over God’s people. …
What is sanctification according to Paul? This is the question that I wrestle with in my upcoming book Holiness in Fresh Perspective: Covenant, Cross, and Kingdom (Wipf and Stock). Before answering …