Thursday, February 29, 2024

Atonement is not an end in itself

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On the other hand, atonement is not an end in itself, any more than the judgement of sin and the expiation of guilt are ends in themselves. ...

God veiled himself

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In Jesus Christ, God has come in the humble form of a servant, veiling his divine majesty, for we could not look on the face of God and live...

The Church's one foundation

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381 Aurelia. 7. 6. 7. 6. D. 1 The Church's one foundation    Is Jesus Christ her Lord,    She is His new creation    By water and the w...
Wednesday, February 28, 2024

Assuming the whole nature of humanity

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He who reveals God to man, and reconciles man to God, must be both God and man, truly and completely God, and truly and completely man. If t...

If Christ is not God, then?

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If Christ is not God, if God is not fully and wholly present in Christ and identical with Christ, then God does not reconcile the world to, ...

Jesus, with Thy Church abide

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380 Litany (Hervey). 7. 7. 7. 6. 1. Jesus, with Thy Church abide,    Be her Savior, Lord, and Guide,    While on earth her faith is tried: ...
Tuesday, February 27, 2024

Why docetism fails

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The humanity of Christ is also essential to God's act of reconciliation , for the actuality of atonement is grounded upon the fact that ...

Going Deeper with Biblical Hebrew—a review

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Going Deeper with Biblical Hebrew: An Intermeiate Study of the Grammar and Syntax of the Old Testment , by H. H. Hardy II and Matthew McAffe...

Why the incarnation matters

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The stark actuality of Christ's humanity, his flesh and blood and bone, guarantees to us that we have God among us. If that humanity wer...

I love it! Hebrew humor

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One should avoid several common misconceptions about meaning. First, meaning does not necessarily equal translation value. Words do not have...

Tozer for Tuesday

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I grieve that we have so little manifestation of the Shepherd’s presence in our churches. We talk about His being here, but we do not sense ...

I love Thy kingdom, Lord

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379 St. Thomas. S. M. 1 I love Thy kingdom, Lord,    The house of Thine abode,    The Church our blest Redeemer saved    With His own preci...
Monday, February 26, 2024

Finding a christological balance

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[H]ow can we be faithful in our theological statements to the nature of the eternal being of the Son who became man and who yet remains God,...

Jesus as eternal word

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Again, if Jesus Christ is the Word of God to us, he is the Word of God antecedently and eternally in the Godhead. Not only is he the Word of...

O come and dwell in me

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377 Old 134th (St. Michael). S. M. 1. O come and dwell in me,    Spirit of power within,    And bring the glorious liberty    From sorrow, ...
Sunday, February 25, 2024

O how the thought of God

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374 Sawley. C. M. 1. O how the thought of God attracts    And draws the heart from earth    And sickens it of passing shows    And dissipat...
Saturday, February 24, 2024

Forever here my rest shall be

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373 Martyrdom (Avon). C. M. 1 For ever here my rest shall be,    Close to thy bleeding side;    This all my hope, and all my plea,    For m...
Friday, February 23, 2024

Insights from Hebrew grammar

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See also Gen 1:6, 9 (unmarked jussive), 11, 14, 20 (unmarked jussive), 22, 24. Note the shift in person for the creation of humanity in vers...

Invasion—by suffering and love!

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There can be no doubt about it that Jesus deliberately forced the issue. At last when the time drew near he marched straight upon Jerusalem ...

In that awful hour mercy and truth worked together and kissed each other…

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The more truth entered into the innermost centre of man's sin and guilt, the more it involved man in ultimate conflict with God who is tr...