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What Does “the gates of hell” Mean?
All my Christian life, now north of 45 years, I misunderstood the phrase “gates of hell.” What comes into your mind when you read Jesus’ resounding declaration: And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades (hell)...
The Civilizational Implications of The Fruit of the Spirit vs. The Acts of the Flesh
One of the great contributions, of many, of the Apostle Paul to Christian Western civilization is laying out in Galatians 5 the juxtaposition between those who live by the Spirit and those who live by the flesh. Paul calls it the fruit of the Spirit and the acts of...
Paul Ends Romans with a Postmillennial Exhortation
It had been quite a while since I read through Romans, and whenever that was, I was most definitely not a postmillennialist. For much of my Christian life I was a “pan-millennialist,” because eschatology all seemed like worthless speculation and the Bible was all too...
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The Indicative vs. The Imperative in the Christian Life
I bet those are two words you've likely never encountered in church before. What in the world do indicative and imperative have to do with Christianity? You won't find the words in the Bible, but you will sure find what they represent, and if they get mixed up all...
The Wages of Sin and Keeping Our Kids Christian
I guess this will be the last part of my little trilogy (previous two posts here and here) on the wages of sin, which Paul tells us is death. I made the claim that over the years my conviction of how we are saved has had a powerful impact on keeping our kids...
The Wages of Sin and Theology: Miracle Max Got it Right
In my previous post I talked about the wages of sin as it related to the movie Dunkirk. In this post I want discuss how the wages of sin relates to our salvation from sin, and specifically what in theology is called the doctrine of soteriology. Over the years I've...
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