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Redemption: The Purchase of a Postscript

Noting the persistence of God’s will in the nature of redemption

Our ways, which are reflective and cursory, contrast to the way that God declares his purposes in promises, and then binds himself to their fulfillment in action. Both their initiation and their performance proceed upon the unchanging character of God.

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The Incarnation: Humiliation to Ironic Victory

The incarnation confirms heroism in humiliation

"Christ was not a human hero whose motto was Excelsior, who overcomes every obstacle, and finally achieves the pinnacle of his fame. On the contrary He descended always lower and deeper and more intimately into our fellowship."

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Essays & Assorted Articles

A Different Reflex to a Single Pain

Guilt & shame and hearing the gospel

Whenever people are on the receiving end of a transgression, they frequently recognize sins that they otherwise suppress. What they hide as offenders they shout as the offended. They even feel offended. Their integrity is suddenly injured, and they sound the same to all. It is proper to recognize such as a proud and hypocritical reaction in men, but we must also admit that it is an inevitable one—an echo that we all actually expect and long for at least a kind of righteous world, even when we wickedly try and place ourselves as its center.

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Commentary & Exposition

- Exodus
- Exodus 1:1-22

When History is Made Prophecy

Eve, the Hebrew midwives, & God's salvation

If Israel’s deliverance from Egypt eventually forecasts Christ’s redemption of sinners, it should be of no surprise that Israel’s bondage is also associated with the effects of the Fall.

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Commentary & Exposition

- Genesis
- Genesis 9:18-29

Blessed be the God of Shem

The cursed of Canaan are visited by the blessed

The judgements of God are too infrequently considered, sometimes because those who disparage them do not find in their consideration what they presumed—the innocent. All the same, whoever neglects to consider God’s righteous judgements upon the guilty, will also forfeit a discovery of God’s grace. One of the ironies of God’s work in history is that he reconstitutes judgement for salvation, and death for life.

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