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 ...
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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.”
Dead Mackerel By Moonlight
Introduction: Welcome to NQN VII. Kind of like Super Bowl VII, but without the Redskins or Dolphins. You know the rules. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZA9mJWbmmo8 It is generally accepted ...
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Two Kinds of Readers
“The Word of God is unified, but the reason we see it as divided is that we have to account for two kinds of people, each group seeing the Word as unified, but in different ways. But the Scriptures are not divided up into law portions in one section and grace portions in another. We do, however, have law-readers and grace-readers.”
Sons of Belial
“What are we to make of the phrase ‘sons of Belial’? In every instance of the phrase in the Old Testament, it always refers to members of the covenant whose lives were completely at odds with the terms of it, and whose hollowness was exhibited in their behavior.”
A Stretch of White Water Ahead
So election day is less than a week away. I have already written about our need to put and keep our trust in God, and that this spiritual calibration needs to be maintained throughout the whole ordeal. Put not your trust in princes already (Ps. 146:3). But with that said, and your spirit being all …
Infidelity Within the Covenant
“Mark this well: adultery is not the same thing as divorce. It is certainly covenantal unfaithfulness and is grounds for divorce, but if there is no divorce, then the marriage remains binding on both parties. An adulterous husband is a covenant-breaking husband, not an ex-husband. In short, we must distinguish covenant-breaking from covenant-separation.”