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  • Daily Devotional: Romans 10:12-21

    Daily Devotional: Romans 10:12-21

    Paul, who is still writing largely to gentiles about how they have been chosen by God while the Jews rejected Him, continues by encouraging gentiles all the more. When it comes to justification, there is no difference between a Jew and gentile. This is about God’s work, not the works of the nations. God abounds…

  • What Must We Be Converted From?

    What Must We Be Converted From?

    Jesus enlightened Peter as to what it meant to be a child of God—it meant exemption from the civil and ceremonial laws in the Torah. Adopted sons are no longer strangers. Jesus got at salvation and reward by grace alone through faith alone. The purpose for the Law was not to make someone righteous but…

  • On Lunatics and Moving Mountains

    On Lunatics and Moving Mountains

    Jesus stated that He is building His kingdom (Cf. 16:18). He was unveiled before three of His disciples to prove how His death and resurrection fulfilled the Law and Prophets (Cf. 17:1-13). As a point of clarification, Moses and Elijah did not represent the Law and the Prophets, but literally talked with Jesus about the…

  • Faith is Not a Chair!

    Faith is Not a Chair!

    I remember this illustration about faith that I always heard growing up and I hear it still today. Faith in God is like having faith in a chair. We sit on a chair and have faith that it will hold us up. So, too, is our faith in God. I find this illustration troublesome. Faith…

  • Gaining Works, Losing Christ

    Gaining Works, Losing Christ

    When I was little, I remember starting to build a club house on our property with my dad. This club house was going to be the best club house anyone had ever seen because my dad built houses for a living and he was the best at what he did. We had some extra 2×4’s…

  • Contemplating the Cosmos: Standing on the Shoreline

                I stand outside and look at the stars with wonder, noting the great complexity of systems and the great emptiness within the cosmos that I have read about. To think that I look with wonder at the same universe that is observed by great thinkers like the late Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking. Yet…

  • Brothers, religion does not define us! (Romans 8:1-11)

                One walk down the street or down the school hallway or into a break room at work will reveal a vast diversity of worldviews and belief systems. There are Hindus, Muslims, Buddhists, Jews, Christians and Atheists. There are philosophers, scientists, artists and composers. There are children, teenagers, young adults,…