God Who Is Grace

The Sermon on the Mount is often described in terms of a new law, a Christian law that supersedes the Mosaic Law. Indeed Matthew structures his Gospel to parallel the events of Moses receiving the Law from God on Mt. Sinai. There is also a sense that Jesus interiorizes and radicalizes the Law, making God’s …

Natural Consequences

One thing we can learn from Jesus is that grace is not a buffer protecting us from God’s wrath, instead grace is simply the character of God. Furthermore, God has told us this, but words are not enough. It must be experienced within relationship to be fully grasped. We explored this in some depth in the …

If God Is For Us

The place we must begin as Christians is that God is on our side. As Paul says, "He who did not withhold his own Son, but gave him up for all of us, will he not with him also give us everything else?" (Rom. 8:32) This is what Jesus lived out in his earthly life. …

New Growth in the Soil of Decay

I haven't posted anything for a couple of months although I have been writing quite a lot. But the tone of my writing has been too negative, so it's ended up in the trash bin rather than the blog. It's easy to be a critic; it's easy to postulate about what's wrong with the world. …