What if God wasn’t like this?

Go ahead and just read this, and then, if you want to, read on below… The Active and Passive Sides of God’s Love From a lecture by Gordon Fee, recounting the morning that he sat in his study to work on 1 Corinthians 13:4 for his commentary: I remember the...

If we’re spiritual, do our bodies matter?

More from Gordon Fee’s book, God’s Empowering Presence. This passage gets at a problem that can sometimes plague our thinking–the temptation to misunderstand the scriptures’ teaching about the soul and the body, and to begin to think that...

God’s Alternative to Philadelphia

On Monday we looked at God’s solution to the world’s problems, as it spreads from, and then affects, one person at a time. This is, of course, the Spirit empowered sharing of the message of Jesus to broken people who need it. Here’s a passage from...

God’s Solution and Us

Last night we began the new year by looking at Isaiah 61:1-4 and some related passages. Here are the notes: One of the most important parts of the prophet Isaiah’s message is that God’s ultimate solution to the world’s problems is one Man, anointed by the...