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Amazing Grace at the Gospel Mission
July 11th, 201108:59 AM ETThis past Friday I preached down at the gospel mission. (Once a month my church puts on a service for the guys and I do my best to attend regularly.) I really enjoy visiting the gospel mission. The service is refreshingly informal and the guys applaud everything, the preaching, the music, everything. (While the congregants of suburban churches also... -
Why it pays to be an ‘unstrategic’ Christian
May 01st, 201110:55 AM ETIn "Christians and the sin of hating homosexuals" I laid out some examples where Christians express an indefensible hatred against homosexuals. Robert Fischer objected to the post, saying that "it is unhelpful to offer up these anecdotal incidents of hate." And why is that? He went on to explain as follows: These may be used by other people to say... -
Why cannot God just forgive?
April 03rd, 201002:25 PM ETIn my last post "God was in Christ reconciling the world, but how exactly?" I explained and critiqued a Judge Judy analogy of the atonement. Some of the subsequent discussion focused in on the plaintiff Suzy. Who is this individual and what role does she play in the analogy? beetle496 attempts to summarize the discussion in the thread on Suzy's ro... -
Do people in hell continue to curse God?
February 05th, 201012:04 PM ETI have been engaging questions over the justice of the doctrine of hell as eternal conscious torment with the main suggestion being that this appears deeply morally problematic. MGT2 demurs. From his perspective, people choose to be in hell as they pile up sins eternally: Why does God allow people to continue to suffer in hell? And why does God pu... -
Was Jesus Christ free to sin?
June 11th, 200909:07 AM ETIn one of my recent posts I argued that Jesus could not have sinned. Moreover, I argued that he did not struggle psychologically with sin -- he did not find it enticing. And this, rather than the common view that he was attracted to sin but managed to refrain from it, provides us with a goal for our own sanctification. One of my readers, Bujo, dis... -
Why Jesus was NOT "tempted" (and why it matters)
June 08th, 200912:17 PM ETIn their trials and temptations many Christians have drawn strength from Hebrews 4:15: "For we do not have a high priest who is unable to empathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are-yet he did not sin." (TNIV; cf. Heb. 2:18) Unfortunately, the significance of this passage is widely misunderstood,...
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