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Dave Frampton: Many people groan when they hear the word history. There are various explanations for this reaction, such as experiences of monotone, melancholy, or otherwise miserable teachers, testing practices that awarded grades for memorizing names and dates, poor attitudes of parents, friends, teachers of other subjects, or even of the townspeople where one grew up, etc. But it is a sad fact that many people have little interest in history. However, history is important (or ought to be!) to God’s sons and daughters, since it is "his story" and we [more]

Todd Braye: What Paul gloried in, what drove him, what incited him to rapturous rejoicing, was not himself. What Paul gloried in was outside himself. It really had nothing to do with him at all. It was not what he achieved, but what God accomplished. It was not his performance, but God’s provision. It was not even his obedience; it was Christ’s obedience. Nor was it the theological tradition in [more]

Jimmy Snowden: 1 Cor. is merely one little snippet out of a massive conversation that took place between Paul and the church that he planted in Corinth. This letter was born out of the nitty-gritty of everyday life. The Corinthians had written Paul a letter—much like a letter (or email) that we might write to someone like Gary Shogren if we had questions or issues that needed to be addressed—and Paul had written a letter back to them in response (i.e., 1 Corinthians) dealing with the questions they asked and the issues they raised. It is obvious from the content of 7:1-5 that the Corinthians had quite a lot to say about sexuality. This is what we will turn our attention to at this point. [more]

Ed Ross: What did God do at Sinai? In a nutshell, He created a womb in which the Seed would be protected and preserved until the fullness of time— the ‘due-date’, so to speak. It was necessary to build a framework which separated Israel from the rest of the world, keeping them as a distinct and ‘peculiar people’. The Old Covenant, written on tables of stone, and ’fleshed out’ in the rest of the Mosaic commandments, did precisely that. To Israel were given divine standards of civil righteousness to preserve moral light in the world. (Upon these were built the legal foundations of western civilization). Attached to the Law were temporal incentives for obedience—the blessings and the curses. This was absolutely necessary prior to the indwelling of the New Covenant. [more]

Dave Frampton: Every person lives in the presence of God (“before God”) constantly. This is what life is about. Your life is very significant, because you were made to relate to God the Creator and Ruler of everything. This text is talking about how you may have a daily, vital relationship with the living God. The idea of this text matters to you because you are human. Your life is more than about getting stuff and doing stuff, and then letting the world know about your stuff on Facebook or Twitter. In this text, God is reaching out to you to be significantly involved with you. So how can this happen? [more]

R. K. McGregor Wright: We turn now to some New Testament passages referring to the OT covenants and particularly to the arrival of the New Covenant. The hermeneutical question is: Does the NT text require or suggest that because the Messiah has come and died and returned to heaven, and a new covenant has replaced the Mosaic, and revelation has progressed to new heights and depths of redemptive truth, there will be no literal fulfillment of the Hebrew Prophets’ predictions of a coming Kingdom of national Israel centered in a Temple in Jerusalem in the promised Land? [more]

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Dave Frampton: Let’s think for a few minutes about Abraham, because it will be hard to follow what Paul says to the Galatians unless you know something about Abraham. Paul now turns to the Old Testament Scriptures to confirm the teaching of grace as opposed to the false teaching of the works of the law. What we should learn is that what is true in the experience of the real Christian is also revealed in the Word. [more]
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Ed Ross: In the presence of "that Name", Moses, who was previously mighty in word and deed among the Egyptians (Acts 7:22), and who once "launched out" on his own to free his people, is now reduced to a stammering lisp, and overcome by feelings of total inadequacy. In "that Name", Moses is commissioned to lead God’s people out of bondage; and by YHWH’s mighty hand alone, Moses fulfills his commission. [more]
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Jimmy Snowden: Sexual Immorality is Immoral Because it Profanes God’s Most Holy Temple (6:18-19a) We are going to be picking up where we left of two weeks ago. Paul has been railing against the church in Corinth for her sexual promiscuity. We have seen that Paul was not content to merely rebuke them for their sexually immoral acts. He did not just want to give them a list of rights and wrongs, although that he did do. He was far more interested in explaining why sexual immorality is so immoral. [more]
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