Strawberry-Rhubarb Theology

30 January 2013

It Is Not a Hard Saying

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Christ, according to Paul, will do everything or nothing; if righteousness is in slightest measure obtained by our obedience to the law, ...
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The Lion Awakes

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29 January 2013

The Greatest Fairy Story

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Reading Tolkien's letters. Here's an arresting bit from a 1944 letter to his son Christopher. It is a window in to what is perhaps...
28 January 2013

I Have Overcome the World

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Luther, in a sermon on John 16:33: It is as though Christ wanted to say: "My dear friend, write the word 'I' with a very lar...
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24 January 2013

Often Creeps In

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In June 1741 Jonathan Edwards wrote a letter to a recent convert, Deborah Hatheway. She had written Edwards seeking wisdom for how to live t...

Justification and Regeneration

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Seems to me there are roughly four camps when it comes to the question of how to put together the gospel with our ongoing growth. Maybe w...

The Horror of Self

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The last lines of Mary Elizabeth Williams' horrifying pro-choice essay : I would put the life of a mother over the life of a fetus eve...
23 January 2013

What Is Holiness?

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Holiness, as I then wrote down some of my contemplations on it, appeared to me to be of a sweet, pleasant, charming, serene, calm nature,...
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19 January 2013

Newton on Doctrinal Controversy

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Wonderful letter from John Newton to a pastor who had written him describing his intentions to rebuke the doctrinal errors of another pas...
17 January 2013

Are Faithful Roman Catholics Saved?

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