by admin | Aug 9, 2025 | Justice and Mercy, Section Seven
These essays are my notes. This one will serve as a record of what has been happening around me as I studied for the previous essay. A visiting pastor preached Matthew 5:13-16 (ESV): “You are the salt of the earth, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its...
by admin | Jun 9, 2025 | Explorations, Section Seven
I’ll continue hearing with faith1 the truth of the Gospel (Ephesians 1:15-23 ESV): For this reason, because I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love toward all the saints, I do not cease to give thanks for you, remembering you2 in my prayers,...
by admin | Apr 3, 2025 | Explorations, Section Seven
I shared the previous essay with my Pastor. “Jesus didn’t call his hearers/followers actors,” he said. That’s true. He called their teachers and leaders actors. That the term also applied to his hearers/followers was my inference from Jesus’ words to...
by admin | Mar 11, 2025 | Explorations, Section Seven
For our freedom Christ has us set free.1 Jesus promised this freedom from slavery to sin: I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever, even the Spirit of truth2…the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will...
by admin | Jan 13, 2025 | Explorations, Section Seven
Paul continued to describe the freedom for which Christ has set us free1 (Galatians 5:18-21 ESV). But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality (πορνεία), impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery,...