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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

- Exodus
- Exodus 1:1-14

Redemption: Renegotiating the Value of Creation

What Israel’s Exodus tells us about redemption

If Israel would be delivered from Egypt at all, it would be at God’s initiative. Israel’s new life, then, must wholly subsist in the kind and quality of life that God gave Israel through his intervention on Israel’s behalf and, after the fact, no other definition of life could exist for her.

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Commentary & Exposition

- Exodus
- Exodus 1:1-14

How Christ’s Toil Made Light Work

The condition of Israel's affliction & redemption from Egypt

In the end, the LORD made affliction to become a servant to Israel’s flourishing. This, in fact, predicts the gospel: The curse would not prevent God’s promise.

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Essays & Assorted Articles

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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