Calling
All Christians are called by God. Our first and most important call is to believe in him, to trust him. There is a second call, inextricable from the first, to obey him. These callings are clear and crucial. Callings with respect to careers or seasons of special...
Command To Love
Isn’t it troubling, this command to love? The Bible is filled with commands from God to do good work and to be of service, but this command to love, as stated by Jesus, is strictly about what is going on inside a person. Jesus doesn’t say, “Love the Lord your God with...
Annihilation Emotion
A Christian pastor wrote dismissively of the belief that God would annihilate the wicked. His held to the more common belief that God would torment the wicked forever. His fundamental opposition to annihilation was that every argument he had heard for it was based on...
Ex Nihilo
“The cross/resurrection event is a genuine novum, a first-order reversal of all previous arrangements—an altogether new creation ex nihilo, out of nothing. We are speaking of the God who ‘calls into existence the things that do not exist’ (Rom. 4.17). Paul speaks of faith in Christ not so much as a human response to God’s activity but as God’s direct creation, something that did not previously exist but has now been called into being.” – Fleming Rutledge
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