Commentary & Exposition Archives

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.

Read the Post

Read the Post

Commentary & Exposition

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

The Gospel & Corresponding Christian Witness

The facts of the gospel shape an ironic ministry

The Apostolic witness regarded the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. When the fact of the resurrection was combined with the records of Jesus’ life and death, these together became the essential characteristics of a different kind of news, even a new kind of news—the gospel.

Read the Post

Read the Post

Commentary & Exposition

- Genesis
- Genesis 18

Word & Deed on the Plane of Time

A field in Canaan confirms the character of God & man

The chapter begins with the silence of God, but that yields to the kind of creative speech that can only belong to God: He will return to Sarah the time of life. But the elderly couple? They must learn to say less—or perhaps speak differently, and that in agreement to what God has spoken.

Read the Post

Read the Post

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.

Read the Post

Read the Post

Commentary & Exposition

- Romans

History & Mystery

Paul’s letter to the Romans connects past & present

The public resurrection of Jesus Christ is the sufficient cause for a public proclamation of the gospel, and also its universal confession—what Paul calls the obedience of faith. Or we might state this in its reverse: faith in Jesus Christ is universally commanded because the gospel is the proclamation of a public fact—his resurrection.

Read the Post

Topics