Pictures of Law and Grace

Grace looks at our life with its endless desert of sin, its endless and voracious appetite for forbidden pleasure and pretense and lifeless self-serving fake virtue, and sees one little shred of life, one tiny spot of real joy, one spot of mercy, and seizes on it. It sees years and years and years of […]

Knowledge – as a witness or as a student

I had a discussion with my oldest son about Plato’s Republic, and in particular the nature of justice. Out of many things said, it stood out to me that philosophers begin by assuming that we must debate over the meanings of things. I think that on the contrary, from the time we are two years […]

The problem with the “gay marriage” debate

The issue of gay acceptance and gay marriage is reaching a fever pitch. I wanted to briefly weigh in with something I’ve been thinking about that concerns this. All who dwell inside the prison of the law interpret things in terms of the knowledge of good and evil. We have one side saying that gay […]

Extracting the Precious from the Worthless

It is the glory of God to conceal a matter, But the glory of kings is to search out a matter. Proverbs 25:2 … if you extract the precious from the worthless, You will become My spokesman. Jeremiah 15:19 Children like candy, not fine wine or espresso. The pleasure of a thing must be immediate […]

1 John 2:18-25 part 4

18 Children, it is the last hour, and as you have heard that antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have come. Therefore we know that it is the last hour. 19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with […]

1 John 2:18-25 part 3

18 Children, it is the last hour, and as you have heard that antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have come. Therefore we know that it is the last hour. 19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with […]

1 John 2:18-25 part 2

18 Children, it is the last hour, and as you have heard that antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have come. Therefore we know that it is the last hour. 19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with […]

1 John 2:18-25 part 1

18 Children, it is the last hour, and as you have heard that antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have come. Therefore we know that it is the last hour. 19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with […]

The Two Universes – Audio Message

The audio sermon derived from these two posts: The Two Universes The Two Universes – More Thoughts [audio:http://thereforenow.com/dumpy/sermons/two_universes_64.m4a]

The Woman at the Well

Who gets rebuked and called out on their sin and then gets excited and goes to tell everyone they know to come meet their rebuker? What is going on? As I was listening recently to a wonderful message by Jono Linebaugh here, I was reminded of the story of Jesus and the woman at the […]