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Observing what God places before men in scripture

A man might say something like, “I thirst” (John 19:28) with little attending surprise, but when God speaks such words in the form of a man—one who was then hanging on a cross to die, the same words take on another marvel and character altogether.

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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

- Matthew's Gospel
- Matthew 19:1-30

Come & Follow Whom?

The two tables of the Law & the deity of Christ

Indeed every phrase in the short section possess a corresponding part, so that the purposed order of the entire conversation becomes very obvious. The Lord was not merely confirming the young man’s sinfulness, but he answered the young man’s question regarding eternal life. But to the point, he made himself God, and the worthy object of the ruler’s faith, saying, “come and follow me”

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Commentary & Exposition

- John's Gospel
- John 3:1-13

The Spirit Blows on Some but not Others

John 3:8 & irresistible grace

This article presents another view, that the easy and natural reading of John 3 does not beg the importation of the Reformed idea. Indeed, this section does require readers to account for redemptive history, but not one in which that history’s individual beneficiaries are determined from eternity.

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Essays & Assorted Articles

Reading Genesis

Unbelief & reading scripture

I find that I read Genesis 3 somewhat differently than I do its two preceding chapters. There is nothing substantially different about the third chapter; it is only that, from that point on, scripture records people so much like me. This is not true of the second chapter. And this means I must read carefully.

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