Sublime

Galatians.

The prisoner, the sick person, the Christian living in the diaspora recognizes in the nearness of a fellow Christian a physical sign of the gracious presence of the triune God. In their loneliness, both the visitor and the one visited recognize in each other the Christ who is present in the body.

Embracing True Christianity

Pastor, here is a ministerial secret not often publicized: sometimes things that shrink are getting healthier. So here we are: totally dependent. In ruins. Vulnerable. But hopeful. A remnant will always remain.

Faith, he’s saying, is a how, a way of being, a “form of life” that is primarily a call to live “in” the historical event of the Crucified—the life, death, resurrection, and ascension of the incarnate God.

conclude with chapter five by noting what Edwards’s view of conversion led him to do in his own church, demonstrating that Edwards was no ivory-tower thinker, but a pastor who lived his convictions even to the bitter—but scripturally faithful—end.

Ecclesiology-so often scoffed at by those who see it as merely "horizontal" rather than the really important thing, the "vertical" dimension of soteriology-is non-negotiable. In Christ there is no vertical and horizontal. Paul was not a Platonist.

But

A Theocentric Approach to Life, Ministry, and the Gospel