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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 […]
garish frame
in the evening I like to wander sometimes my old favorites grow familiar I discover new routes to which I return I relish every fading curve of the foothills every layer of mountain shadowed along the distance I love the sharp peaks against the deep sky every shade of pink and orange and blue every […]
The Glorious Impossibility
Tullian Tchividjian recently finished a wonderful series of messages on the sermon on the mount (Matthew 5, Matthew 6, Matthew 7), which I thought were good enough to warrant a comment from the humble likes of me. They are available via podcast here: iTunes, and on the new liberatenet.org site. The White Horse Inn guys […]
The Two Universes – more thoughts
I have some further meditations on this idea of the two universes. First, to clarify EXACTLY what I’m saying. The main point is that there are two spiritual universes, the universe where you start off unapproved, and the universe where you start off approved. I think of them also as the “world” and the kingdom […]
The Two Universes
People tend to think that grace is some subtle theological or doctrinal point that you ought to get right to be a good Christian. We tend to think that the subtle difference between law and gospel is the kind of thing that nerdy theologians geek out over. The truth is, grace is not really very […]
Unworthy Servants
Fairness is not the dynamic at all, fairness has been nailed petty and squirming and horrid to the tree and killed publicly. Our lust for fairness is squarely of the flesh. 7 “Will any one of you who has a servant 3 plowing or keeping sheep say to him when he has come in from […]
The Greatest and Most Impossible Command
36 “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” 37 And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. 38 This is the great and first commandment.” Matthew 22:36-38 I want to take some time to focus […]