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Testing the Spirits in a World of Twitter

Post Series on 1 John 4:1-6: Testing the Spirits in a World of Twitter (1 John 4:1) Confessing This Jesus-Christ-Come-In-Flesh Jesus (1 John 4:2-3) On The Discernment of the Saints (1 John 4:4-6) Once upon a time, there was little confusion as to what a person ought...

Whoever is Born of God Cannot Keep on Sinning

Post Series on 1 John 2:28-3:10: Because Truth is So Much More Than Just Being Right (1 John 2:28-3:1) We Shall Be Like Him (1 John 3:2-3) Whoever is Born of God Cannot Keep on Sinning (1 John 3:4-10) In 1 John 3:4-10, John makes a startling claim: if we have indeed...

We Shall Be Like Him

Post Series on 1 John 2:28-3:10: Because Truth is So Much More Than Just Being Right (1 John 2:28-3:1) We Shall Be Like Him (1 John 3:2-3) Whoever is Born of God Cannot Keep on Sinning (1 John 3:4-10) In 1 John, there are perhaps no two verses with more densely packed...

Because Truth is So Much More Than Just Being Right

Post Series on 1 John 2:28-3:10: Because Truth is So Much More Than Just Being Right (1 John 2:28-3:1) We Shall Be Like Him (1 John 3:2-3) Whoever is Born of God Cannot Keep on Sinning (1 John 3:4-10) Although I place a great deal of emphasis on orthodoxy (right...

When Yahweh Takes His Bride

Hosea 2 describes not only how Yahweh is forced to divorce his bride Israel, and not only how he vows to win her back to himself, but, in the final section of the chapter, even how Yahweh will move heaven and earth for the sake of his renewed bride. First, Yahweh vows...

When Yahweh’s Troubling Becomes a Door of Hope

As if Yahweh flipped a switch from his wrath to his mercy, Hosea 2:14-15 portrays a God who refuses to divorce, and commits to remarrying, his bride Israel: 14Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak tenderly to her. 15And...

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