In doing research for a talk I'm going to give in November, I ran across this sentence by John Stott: "The reason why many people give the wrong answers to questions about the cross, and even ask the wrong questions, is that they have carefully … [Continue reading]
In thinking about the idea of reconciliation between God and man, there are those who see a need for God to reconcile his justice with his mercy. The idea is that God's justice is in conflict with his mercy and some middle ground must be agreed upon … [Continue reading]
This is the 23rd post in the Sermon on the Mount Series. I wrote this post and set it up to be published before I figured out that I had previously written on these verses. I was about to hit the delete key but after reading the two posts, there are … [Continue reading]
There is a scarlet oak in my back yard that I planted as a bare root sapling. Currently it is 10 to 12 foot tall but it was a glorified stick a few years ago. My family gave me some good natured teasing about the stick that I planted. It really … [Continue reading]
