"If you really keep the royal law found in Scripture, “Love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing right. But if you show favoritism, you sin and are convicted by the law as lawbreakers." James 2:8-9 Don’t just love those in your neighborhood, but your neighbors in every neighborhood, because your neighbors are scattered all …
Recovering the Christian Art of the Lament
“For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven…a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance…” (Ecclesiastes 3) A year ago I did a multi-post blog on the art the lament, the first of which was entitled: “Sometimes You Just …
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“What should we do?” (Part 2 of 3)
We’re talking about how John the Baptizer sized up the legitimacy of one’s repentance. Hip deep in the river he preached, “Produce fruit in keeping with repentance!” When three different groups of people came for baptism John gave each of them a litmus test to assess whether or not they’re ready for Messiah’s kingship. First, …
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