Archive for September 2020
Fictive Kinship: What It Is and How It Impacts our Understanding of the Gospel
God is my Father, and thus he is responsible to take care of me (just like he does the lilies of the field and birds of the air, as Jesus reminds us). And it means I have a responsibility to love, cherish, and obey God.
Read MoreLove Is the Fulfillment of the Law (What’s that mean, anyway?)
Love, then, is not about an emotional disposition; it is about acting in a certain way toward others—a way that is consistent with the commandments laid out in the Law.
Read MoreReligious Ritualism and Idolatry in Malachi
The prophets warned Judah repeatedly that their idolatry—looking to things other than God for their safety, satisfaction, and fulfillment—would end badly. And because the vertical relationship between God and the people was broken by idolatry, the horizontal relationship between people also suffered greatly.
Read More4 Reasons to Preach Christ from the Old Testament (Christ in the Old Testament)
The Christocentric sermon will lead us to obey God because God has already established a relationship with him, not in order to establish that relationship through law keeping.
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