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When Yahweh Serves Divorce Papers

This is a painful post to write. It is difficult to read the utter severity of the language against Israel in Hosea 2:2-13 in view of my own sinfulness because of how vividly the passage portrays that God’s hatred of our sin. Every sin is a personal offense...

The Anointing of the Holy One

Post Series on 1 John 2:15-27: John’s Warning Concerning the World (1 John 2:15-17) John’s Warning Concerning the Church (1 John 2:18-27) The Anointing of the Holy One (1 John 2:18-27) So then, how do we heed John’s warnings concerning the world and...

John’s Warning Concerning the Church

Post Series on 1 John 2:15-27: John’s Warning Concerning the World (1 John 2:15-17) John’s Warning Concerning the Church (1 John 2:18-27) The Anointing of the Holy One (1 John 2:18-27) Although John warns his flock about the dangers they face from the...

John’s Warning Concerning the World

Post Series on 1 John 2:15-27: John’s Warning Concerning the World (1 John 2:15-17) John’s Warning Concerning the Church (1 John 2:18-27) The Anointing of the Holy One (1 John 2:18-27) The reasons we sin are neither complicated nor new. John summarizes and...

Envisioning the Beloved Society

Post Series on 1 John 2:7-14: How Jesus Made the Old Commandment New (1 John 2:7-8) Love as the Litmus Test of Genuine Faith (1 John 2:9-11) Envisioning the Beloved Society (1 John 2:12-14) John summarizes all that he has said to this point in a poem in 1 John...

Love as the Litmus Test of Genuine Faith

Post Series on 1 John 2:7-14: How Jesus Made the Old Commandment New (1 John 2:7-8) Love as the Litmus Test of Genuine Faith (1 John 2:9-11) Envisioning the Beloved Society (1 John 2:12-14) John’s words in 1 John 2:9-11 are hard, and they should give every...

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