Showing posts with label cheap grace. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cheap grace. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 19, 2020

By grace, through faith, yes. But what does that entail?

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In short, we cannot say in an unqualified fashion that final salvation is by grace and by faith apart from embodied obedience, for this misun...
Monday, April 08, 2019

And what does the LORD require of you?

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[E]vil was associated with demons rather than with other gods. The gods could be vengeful or malicious (e.g., Ishtar’s response to Gilgamesh...
Tuesday, September 19, 2017

Wrath? Yes!

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The notion of the wrath of God is not a pleasant one. Indeed the modern consciousness resists it mightily. Jonathan Edward’s sermon “Sinners...
Tuesday, April 28, 2015

The extent of grace

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Many Christians think that grace basically means “Jesus saved me from my sins and now I get to go to heaven.” But grace is far bigger than t...
Tuesday, March 03, 2015

A safe savior

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Too often, I think, we desire a Savior who, after assuring us of eternal lie, leaves us alone until our next crisis. We want Him to comfort ...
Saturday, February 14, 2015

Saved, but what for?

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Far too many think because they have “prayed to receive Christ,” they are safe and secure. I don’t want to dispute the all-sufficiency of Ch...
Friday, February 06, 2015

Prophetic—over 50 years ago

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I never could figure out why ministers feel they have to pat and paw over everybody to get them in, why they have to dilute and edit and mod...
Monday, June 23, 2014

Morality and legalism

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The model of Christ as a moral teacher cannot do justice to the disciple’s dependence upon God’s gracious and active call in Jesus because i...
Friday, June 20, 2014

Intellectual assent

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“An idea about Christ, a doctrinal system, a general religious recognition of grace or forgiveness of sins does not require discipleship.”—...
Thursday, June 19, 2014

It isn't legalism

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One of Bonhoeffer’s most important insights in Discipleship is his definition of the nature and effects of Christ’s authority. His understa...
Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Back log

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Before I start excerpting from the next book, which is Diachrony in Biblical Hebrew , I think I should catch up on a backlog of posts from m...
Tuesday, March 06, 2012

To what extent Christian?

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“When Christianity ceases to insist on a transformed nature, it no longer sees worldly indulgence and worldly love as sinful. And this being...
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Monday, June 20, 2011

Necessary, but not sufficient

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“The message of repentance is evident throughout the section [Jeremiah 2-23], in the early phase anticipating the penitential response of th...
Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Ouch

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I don't follow television at all, so I don't even know the individual replying in the video, but I'm sure most of you do. Anyway...
Friday, April 22, 2011

Good Friday

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It seems appropriate that on Good Friday, there should be a post on the cross. So, perusing the blog world today, I found a very good one, b...
Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Ethics? What are they?

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Students cheating has become fairly common. There are programs that sniff out plagiarism in papers. But, what about the paid professional wh...
Monday, February 22, 2010

cheap grace

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There have always been legitimate theological arguments about justification, as well as less noble but understandable interconfessional squa...
Friday, January 22, 2010

Cheap grace and child rearing

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“I just read an article that spoke about one of the parenting gurus who died a few years back. He was one of those psychiatrists who pioneer...