2 And again, she gave birth to his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of flocks, but Cain was a tiller of the ground. 3 So it came about in the course of time that Cain brought an offering to the LORD of the fruit of the ground. 4 And Abel, on his part […]
25 At that time Jesus said, “I praise You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that You have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent and have revealed them to infants. I had the very great privilege of preaching again at the local homeless shelter, Lighthouse Mission, in Bellingham. Don’t think I’m anything great […]
When the Law has laid us low, we can cheerfully raise our heads again because besides the Law we have another doctrine which proposes to us no demands of any kind. Were we to ask Christ, What is expected of me in order that I may be saved?” He would answer: “No works; I have […]
Here is the recording of a message I gave concerning Anointing, Knowledge, & Confession from 1 John 2:18-25. You can’t anoint yourself, it is all of grace! Anointing leads to direct experiential knowledge (Greek “eido”) not studied knowledge (Greek “ginosko”), and this leads to an inner heart confessional sort of understanding of the gospel. Enjoy! […]
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 […]
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 […]
For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from works of the Law. Romans 3:28 NASB We persist, we continue to assert, we have concluded, we are eternally convinced of this: it is apart from works that we are justified. It is not a confidence in what we do, it is a […]
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 […]
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 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 […]