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Commentary & Exposition

- Acts of the Apostles
- Acts 2:1-13

Reading the Old Testament by the New (& the New by the Old)

The Christian reads as did the prophets, by the Spirt and in search of Jesus Christ

The Pentecost feast found its expected celebration in the usual sequence of Jewish festival days that became part of the Jewish calendar in connection with the Exodus. Pentecost was, accordingly, an annual Jewish festival; but this particular Pentecost found a unique situation and expression because it succeeded Jesus’ recent resurrection.

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An Ironic, Apprehensible Summary of a Problem

A brief and well-known excerpt taken from C.S. Lewis’ 1941 sermon, "The Weight of Glory"

“We are far too easily pleased.”

Notes on Scripture

A Brief Note on the Jewish Feasts

The formal recognition of the life of men & the presence of God

Each of the feasts were to be annually observed as a reminder of God’s deliverance of Israel from Egypt to the land of promise. One feast, though, was never to be celebrated without the others, for, together, they recited a single narrative and history.

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Moral Awareness: Caught up in the Middle of Things

Moral obligations are discovered in moral experience

"It would be nice to test the ground of morality before we step on it. But to all such proposals there is one inevitable reply: they come too late."

Commentary & Exposition

- Acts of the Apostles
- Acts 2:1-13

When Facts are Crowned with Meaning

A short introduction to the second chapter of Acts

The meaning of scripture, in this way, is the gift of God to the questions that he, himself, excites in man. This is illustrated on Pentecost day, in the litany of strange phenomena that overtakes the crowd that is gathered in Jerusalem.

Commentary & Exposition

- James
- James 1:1-27

Temptation, Patience & the Gift of God’s Time

Temptation as the ground of triumph

Only faith may so work in the presence of temptation to produce what temptation sought to destroy—virtue. This is the irony of James’ admonition.

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Commentary & Exposition

- Exodus
- Exodus 1:1-22

When History is Made Prophecy

Eve, the Hebrew midwives, & God's salvation

It should be of no surprise that Israel’s bondage is associated with the effects of Adam’s sin. In the end, the LORD made affliction to become a servant to Israel’s flourishing. This, in fact, predicts the gospel: The curse would not prevent God’s promise.

Ascribed & Prescribed (Notes on Ideas)

The Gift of Samuel

Children, Intimacy & Divine Desire

Hedonists everywhere should be concerned; after all, lust is what it has always been. Even when it is attended by pleasure, lust remains ungratified and ungratifying. This will surprise no one, but it does seem to bother some. Otherwise, there would not be such a rush to exalt lust as love, or to confuse their rewards.

Holiness does not consist in mystical speculations, enthusiastic fervors, or uncommanded austerities; it consists in thinking as God thinks, and willing as God wills.

John Brown, Expository Discourses on 1 Peter

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John Brown, Expository Discourses on 1 Peter

Holiness does not consist in mystical speculations, enthusiastic fervors, or uncommanded austerities; it consists in thinking as God thinks, and willing as God wills.

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See the heinousness of sin by this, that Christ was made a curse...
...if thou wouldst know what sin is, go to mount Calvary.

Thomas Goodwin, Christ our Mediator

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2020-04-27T17:17:59+05:45

Thomas Goodwin, Christ our Mediator

See the heinousness of sin by this, that Christ was made a curse... ...if thou wouldst know what sin is, go to mount Calvary.

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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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2020-05-12T17:57:29+05:45

Robert Louis Stevenson

Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.

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Grace knows no jealousies except for the honor of God.

Geerhardus Vos, Seeking and Saving the Lost

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2020-10-24T15:18:03+05:45

Geerhardus Vos, Seeking and Saving the Lost

Grace knows no jealousies except for the honor of God.

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And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ.

The Holy Bible, 2 Thessalonians 3:5

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The Holy Bible, 2 Thessalonians 3:5

And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ.

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To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.

C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

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2020-04-27T17:11:26+05:45

C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.

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Scripture Notes & Commentary

- Commentary & Exposition

- Romans
- Romans 1:13-21

The Power of God Conceived in his Revelation to Man

The gospel, God's rule, and righteousness

Accordingly, human notions of both power and purity were challenged, toppled, and then turned right-side-up by the gospel. Rome imposed its power by a sword; the church found its increase by a word that invited believers of every tribe and people.

- Notes on Scripture

- Galatians
- Galatians 5:1

Mood, Medium, & Message

The character of the biblical revelation informs the content of the sermon

- Commentary & Exposition

- Acts of the Apostles
- Acts 26:1-18

The Gospel & Corresponding Christian Witness

The facts of the gospel shape an ironic ministry

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Assorted Articles

- Reflections (& Refractions)

Life’s Rhythms & the Telling of Time

Contemplating affection for eternity in the passing of days

Time, then, becomes something more to us than the measured span of what we do. There is also the frightening contemplation of what is not done: tasks uncompleted, people unvisited, God’s grace unacknowledged.

- Ascribed & Prescribed (Notes on Ideas)

The Stump Speech Becomes Secularism’s Sermon

Flattery, politics, & the search for power

- Essays & Assorted Articles

Syrian Religion in Ancient China

Syncretism & religious aspiration

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Read & Overheard

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Religion is Contemplated in God’s Gift of Redemption

A Selection taken from Herman Bavinck’s The Wonderful Works of God

"Without special revelation the religion of men and the philosophy of thinkers do not have a right knowledge of God, and hence no right knowledge of man and the world, and of sin and redemption."

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Making Place for Time

Sin wickedly ascribes an evil character to time

In the beginning, time possessed no argument with the creator or creature, but showcased the passing moments in which God revealed himself to man in his creation. If believers for the moment must still feel the pinch of time in space, that is the effect of sin and not time itself.

- Overheard
- Reflections (& Refractions)

Defacing the Truth, Destroying the Conscience

Terrence Malick’s film reminds us that the present becomes a horrible future after we join hands to misconsider the past

“What we do is just create sympathy. We create…we create admirers. We don’t create followers."

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Featured Posts

- Commentary & Exposition

- 1 Corinthians
- 1 Corinthians 15:12-34

Conceiving a Fiction

True practice & promotion is apprehended in the resurrection

Arguments are frequently founded upon the implausibility or impossibility of their falsehood; but Paul’s tack is different. He is so sure of the resurrection’s fact, and so committed to all its attending consequences, that he makes the logic and character of this life to hinge upon the veracity of Jesus’ resurrection.

Commentary & Exposition

- The Book of Revelation
- Revelation 20:1-10

A Prelude to Eternity

Eschatology: Eden & the Millennium

Reflections (& Refractions)

Refitting an Analogy

Jesus Christ makes the mercy of God apprehensible

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The Christian Can Hope Perfectly

Geerhardus Vos on the Christian’s hope

Commentary & Exposition

- Matthew's Gospel
- Matthew 19:1-30

Come & Follow Whom?

The two tables of the Law & the deity of Christ

- Overheard
- Reflections (& Refractions)

Defacing the Truth, Destroying the Conscience

Terrence Malick’s film reminds us that the present becomes a horrible future after we join hands to misconsider the past

- Reflections (& Refractions)
- Select Quotations

Making Place for Time

Sin wickedly ascribes an evil character to time

- Notes on Scripture

- Galatians
- Galatians 5:1

Mood, Medium, & Message

The character of the biblical revelation informs the content of the sermon

- Commentary & Exposition

- 1 Corinthians
- 1 Corinthians 15:12-34

Conceiving a Fiction

True practice & promotion is apprehended in the resurrection

- Notes on Scripture

Authority, Power, & the Kingdom of God

Jesus' authority and power is confirmed by his words and deeds

- Commentary & Exposition

- Galatians
- Galatians 4:1-11

A Surprising Application of a Familiar Situation

Paul reminds his readers that salvation necessarily arose from a righteous servant

- Ascribed & Prescribed (Notes on Ideas)

Inspiration & Intelligibility

Language, revelation, and its religious misuse: Contrasting the character of biblical and Vedic speech

- Commentary & Exposition

- Acts of the Apostles
- Acts 26:1-18

The Gospel & Corresponding Christian Witness

The facts of the gospel shape an ironic ministry

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