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Syrian Religion in Ancient China

Syncretism & religious aspiration

The human mind is such that it needs and seeks forms for its heartfelt expressions; even so, the human heart is such that it will too easily justify false forms for their purported service to truth.

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Reflections (& Refractions)

Power, Privilege, & Potluck Dinners

A simple meal as the unlikely demonstration of the gospel's power

In capitals all around the world, men devise many means to encourage or impose even the most tenable of unities. Against these efforts are raised the schemes of still other clever men, attempting another new unity to replace the last. The church is to stand outside the circle of these efforts, preaching a gospel that displays a different kind of power.

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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.

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Select Quotations

Committing Sacrilege in Pursuit of Worship

Geerhardus Vos on the religious inclinations of man

"And often the more ostensibly spiritual and refined these thing are, the more potent and treacherous their lure. The modern man who seeks to save and perfect himself has a whole pantheon of ideals, each of them a veritable god sapping the vitals of his religion."

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Commentary & Exposition

- Romans
- Romans 1:1-16

Paul Writes to the Romans

The resurrection & gospel proclaim the authority of Christ

In this way, the resurrection became the confirmation of Jesus’ authority where the Romans presently ruled. It also proclaimed Jesus' authority to give life where death now ruled. In other words, the gospel became something more than even the announcement that sins can be forgiven; it announced the power of God in realms where both men and death now usurp God's authority.

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