We all know the rule: every story has a beginning, a middle, and an end. But what if a story has more than one middle? What if, in one of these “stories with two middles,” when you removed one of the middles, turns out to be not much of a story at all? I’ve been …
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 …
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. …
Jonathan Tobias, an Eastern Orthodox priest, said in a recent talk, that the devil and other evil powers are ignorant of Trinitarian and Christological theology because it can only be known by revelation of the Holy Spirit. This is why the Devil allowed Jesus as much free reign on earth as he did. This is …
I've been catching up on my reading while I'm in Mississippi. As often happens, reading theology leads me to write. In this case, during my devotions I noticed a striking connection between Psalm 90 and the story of God expelling Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden. At the same time I was reading …
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