How God’s Word Offers Us Freedom from Shame
Shame is, effectively, a public disgrace. When we think about shame, we’re thinking about three audiences. There’s God, there are fellow believers, and there are outsiders.
Shame is, effectively, a public disgrace. When we think about shame, we’re thinking about three audiences. There’s God, there are fellow believers, and there are outsiders.
4 Reasons Why God Takes Pleasure in Your Obedience
God takes great pleasure in obedience, but can we? Is it good news to hear that God is pleased by obedience? Or is this a burden we thought we had escaped?
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Matthew’s Unique Approach to Forgiveness
Both Jesus’s suffering/death and his death-defying resurrection are necessary parts of the gospel story, as they should be in our theology.
7 Reasons God Takes Pleasure in Election
Romans 8:28–30 teaches us that God really accomplishes the complete redemption of his people from start to finish. He foreknows (elects) a people for himself before the foundation of the world.
3 Expressions of the Father’s Delight in the Son
God’s pleasure is first and foremost a pleasure in his Son. The Bible reveals this to us while showing us the face of Jesus shining like the sun of our solar system.
Does Jesus Really Expect Us to Be Perfect?
It is true that all people stand condemned and experience death because of sin, with our only hope being God’s grace toward us, this is not at all what Jesus is talking about in Matthew 5.