by admin | Aug 7, 2012 | David's Forgiveness, Forgiveness, What Kind of Carpenter is Jesus?
I have some sympathy for Jephthah. I could be Jephthah. I have that same drive to be right, or righteous, that at times owes as much or more to my ego than my faith in the righteousness that comes from God. I have that same philosophical, or legalistic, bent of...
by admin | Aug 6, 2012 | Chapter 2, Romans, Section Two
Paul continued writing to those who do not know that God’s kindness leads you to repentance (μετάνοιαν, a form of μετάνοια).1 But because of your stubbornness (σκληρότητα, a form of σκληρότης) and your unrepentant (ἀμετανόητον, a form of ἀμετανόητος) heart, you are...
by admin | Aug 4, 2012 | Chapter 2, Romans, Section Two
What follows Paul’s history of sin is not the wholesale condemnation one might expect. In my opinion Paul learned something profound and difficult from his experience in Corinth, his judgment of the Corinthians in general, his specific judgment of the man who was...
by admin | Aug 3, 2012 | David's Forgiveness, Forgiveness, What Kind of Carpenter is Jesus?
The Social Construction of Reality helped me understand my own life in a new way. I didn’t take my Dad’s advice to avoid or watch out for women too much to heart. Though, now that I think about it, I’ve never had sex without the benefit of some form of birth...
by admin | Aug 2, 2012 | Chapter 1, Romans, Section Two
The children who came of age in a population where the worship of created things was firmly established know better than anyone that the worship of created things is a waste of time and effort. At that moment they have an opportunity to turn back to the worship of...