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Whoever Abides in Love Abides in God, and God Abides in Him

Post Series on 1 John 4:7-21: If God So Loved Us, We Also Ought to Love One Another (1 John 4:7-12) Whoever Abides in Love Abides in God, and God Abides in Him (1 John 4:13-16) But Perfect Love Casts Out Fear (1 John 4:17-21) In 1 John 4:7-12, John laid out the...

If God So Loved Us, We Also Ought to Love One Another

Post Series on 1 John 4:7-21: If God So Loved Us, We Also Ought to Love One Another (1 John 4:7-12) Whoever Abides in Love Abides in God, and God Abides in Him (1 John 4:13-16) But Perfect Love Casts Out Fear (1 John 4:17-21) In the letter we call 1 John, the Apostle...

Christian Exegesis at its Best

I cannot remember a time when I have relied as exclusively on a single commentary for a sermon I prepared as I did this week with Phillip Cary’s masterful work Jonah in the Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible series (Grand Rapids: Brazos Press, 2008). In...

God’s Stubborn Mission

When Jonah tried to flee God’s call to preach to Nineveh, God sent a storm to destroy his getaway ship. When the sailors threw him overboard in terror, God appointed a great fish to swallow Jonah up for three days. When Jonah prayed for deliverance, God caused...

God’s Stubborn Missionary

In Jonah 3, we find Jonah freshly vomited onto the beach by the great fish that had housed him for three days in its own belly. Some people think that there might be a significant amount of time between Jonah’s divinely ordained regurgitation and 3:1, when the...

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