Is Paul a moral relativist in Romans 14:13-23?
I really was trying to stay out of trouble by sticking to the daily office readings as the source of my blog material for a little while. But the daily office reading for today, Romans 14:13-23, is...
View ArticleHow does Paul define sin? (Romans 14:13-23)
The Daily Office reading for today was Romans 14:13-23. I was particularly struck by verses 22-23: “The faith that you have, have as your own conviction before God. Blessed are those who have no reason...
View ArticleThe difference between spiritual purity and moral cleanliness
Leviticus 10:10 says, “You are to distinguish between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the clean.” Matthew 5:8 says, “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.” These...
View ArticleIs the Old Testament a debate between priests and prophets?
I‘ve been reading two books recently that have me really wondering what to do with the Old Testament: RC Sproul’s The Holiness of God and Richard Beck’s Unclean. Sproul’s book uses some of the most...
View ArticleThree highly ignored teachings of the New Testament: Sabbath healings,...
One of the main reasons that many Christians fall short who are earnestly seeking to live Biblical lives is their refusal to see legitimate analogies between issues of controversy in the time of the...
View ArticleNothing outside you can make you unclean
In week four of LifeSign’s “Jesus vs. the Pharisees” series, we look at a key moral distinction between Jesus and the Pharisees. The Pharisees understood morality in terms of moral cleanliness,...
View ArticleIs God arbitrary? (my point of contention with conservative evangelicals)
Is there anything that God asks us to do for no other reason than because he’s God and he said so? I suspect that how you answer this question reflects whether or not you are a conservative...
View ArticleThe 12 scriptures that inspired my book
When I was a Southern Baptist, we used to believe that Methodists didn’t read the Bible at all. What may be shocking to some evangelicals is to discover that even progressive, LGBT-affirming Methodists...
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