Posts with the tag “christian-living”

What about those of us who know we are not living the victorious Christian life? You blow it with your kids. You struggle to love and respect your husband. You can’t quit porn. You can’t forgive J...  Read More

It’s not us. Jesus, the cosmic Prophet of God, will always tell us the truth, interpret reality rightly for us, and graciously and personally restructure our own prophetic record by the colorful world...  Read More

But the Apostle Paul gives us more grace in our struggle with sin, not less. The grace to already be delivered from sin (it’s done), the grace to already be dead to sin (it’s over), the grace to cour...  Read More

Today we go to church to draw near to God not because of temporary and ineffective animal sacrifices but because of the Better Sacrifice, who absorbed and dealt with all our self-centeredness on the C...  Read More

Paul’s cry is that salvation for the skeptic and for the believing is always received not achieved....  Read More

...Jesus becomes rejected and unacceptable in our place so we can be accepted forever. ...  Read More

"We can't imagine that he would come down here as a man, live the life we were supposed to live, die a punishing death for us who deserve it ourselves...but this is what love does. Love stoops, and Go...  Read More

When my wife and I left Dallas fresh out of seminary almost eight years ago to look for a house in Waco, our wonderful (and very dear to us to this day) real estate agent asked me what I did for a liv...  Read More