If we read the biblical text plainly, at face value, without insisting upon an interpretive lens derived from tradition, it becomes clear that Israel and the Church are two distinct entities within the redemptive framework of the scriptures. While saved the same way and belonging to the same God, they each have different particular purposes to serve and different goals to accomplish.
Read MoreWisdom sometimes flows from the most unexpected sources and the grace of God reaches the most unimaginable depths.
Read MoreWe fancy ourselves experts. A few of us actually are. But it occurs to me that the more you truly know, regardless of the field, the more you realize how little you actually know. True knowledge is accompanied by humility and humility prevents a person from getting out over their skis when it comes to things they can’t possibly know.
Like the future.
Read MoreThis is the irresolvable tension an honest reading of the Bible requires you to hold: God is absolutely sovereign, man is absolutely responsible.
Read MoreThe relevance to the immediate audiences of John’s original letters is much the same as the relevance to those of us living now in the twenty-first century all over the world: take heart, because this is how it will all come to pass.
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