In Christ ethnic and social differences cease to be obstacles to deep, personal, intimate fellowship. Colossians 3:9-11, “You have put off the old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator. Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and [...]
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Christ is All, and in All
Posted in John Piper, Paul, racism, sermons on February 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Grace of God Working with Me
Posted in David J. Bosch, Paul, fellow workers with God, paradox, sovereignty on February 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Some of Jesus’ contemporaries indeed believed that God’s work, by definition, excluded any human involvement. We want to put it, catagorically, however, that this is a false conception that cannot but be detrimental to the Church. The Bible speaks with a disarming candor here:
-The disciples are seed (Matt 13:38) and at the same time laborers [...]
The Aroma of Christ
Posted in Paul, Scripture, aroma of Christ, glory, sovereignty on January 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“But thanks be to God, who in Christ always leads us in triumphal procession, and through us spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of Him everywhere.
For we are the aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing, to one a fragrance from death to death, to [...]
The Boundaries of their Dwelling Place
Posted in God of All Nations, Paul, Scripture, sovereignty on January 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place, that they should seek God, in the hope that they might feel their way toward him and find him. Yet he is actually not far [...]
