Ain’t It the Way
Geneva and Rome
“We have already considered what the Bible teaches about justification and the justified individual, considered as an individual. In this limited sense, the historic Protestant position on justification is correct, and the Roman Catholic understanding of individual justification as a process involving an infusion of righteousness is wrong.”
United Rightly
“Christ did not die so that we might live. He died so that we might die, and He lives so that we might live. Our life is not tied to His death—our life is tied to His life. But we cannot be tied to His life unless we have also been united with Him in His death.”
Wimpathy
Introduction: A few years ago, Joe Rigney caused something of a stir when we recorded an episode of Man Rampant together in which he made a crucial distinction between sympathy and empathy. We might call the latter “untethered and toxic empathy” for short. Sympathy is simply fellow feeling, and we have good New Testament examples …
Relief Mostly
This will not be a full-blown election-results blog post because I would like to let all the dust settle, and have all the pieces fall out of the sky first. But I did want to thank the Lord for the respite He has given us. We still have an enormous amount of work to do, …
Resurrected Law
“In part the covenant is new because the law governing the covenant is new. But by new, we do not mean ‘freshly invented’ but rather ‘back from the dead.’ There cannot be a change in the priesthood without a corresponding change in the law. But the priesthood has been bestowed on Christ on the basis of His power of an indestructible life.”
Mostly Peaceful Letters
Letter to the Editor: My wife has been watching Charlie Kirk clips, who I think is a generally smart guy with good things to say. But then she showed me the following video, which immediately ...
How the Law Bears Fruit
“When Jesus died, the law died. And when He rose again, so did the law . . . the law has complete continuity in the same way that the body of Christ had continuity with His resurrection body. It was the same body that rose from the dead (John 20:27). The law has discontinuity in the sense that the resurrection changes the meaning and nature of everything.”
Blue Ruin, Black Redemption, Golden Glory
Introduction: Everything is in a bad way, by which we mean in a horrendous way, and everybody knows it. But the reason everything is in such a bad way is not a matter of misfortune or bad luck. ...
Sinners With No Hands
“Stop trying to pick up grace. You have no hands. Grace picks you up, out of the miry clay, and sets your feet on the rock. A true heart knows this.”