Desire & Affections Archives

Acknowledging the rule & power of God in the church by its expressions of love

This is how redemption mimics the original creation: What begins in the act of God as an instance of creation—a man’s new birth, much as a germinated seed—also blooms and then blossoms again among the other flowers in a field of perennials.

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Commentary & Exposition

- Colossians
- Colossians 1:1-29

Awareness & our Earliest and Natural Obligations of Love

The obligations in family predict their display in the church

Awareness, then, eventually and increasingly admits to the world as it is, that we might act within it as we are required. From its vantage point is a near horizon, from which rises the light of our obligations and the evening of their refusals.

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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.

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