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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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Notes on Scripture

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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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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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.

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