Tag: God

Are You Offended?

I offer no translations, no concessions and no explanations.  Read these words from Paul, just as they are.  Take them as his understanding if you like, but know that he was appointed by Jesus to teach the Gospel…and his ministry was particularly for the Gentiles.  If sexual morality […]

Maturing In Righteousness

“For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God” (Rom 3:23). So, I was having a conversation with an old friend the other day, and this issue about the fact that we are all awful sinners, and none of us is good, came up.  It […]

The Better Covenant – Part Two

Last week, I wrote a post to show that Christians have been called to a far better covenant than the old one God entered with the Hebrews.  I lamented that too many Christians do not realise the beauty of the new or understand their liberty in this better […]

Faith Does Not Eliminate Doubt

Can we agree on this?  Please?  Like, this has to be the most basic level of common sense…but like all common sense, it is quite uncommon to find someone who truly understands and appreciates this truth. In case you are struggling to understand how the existence of faith […]

The Better Covenant

“But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.  For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second” (Heb 8:6-7). I […]