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World weary? “All Things New” Torches our Hope
Even as I load this post into Engage, the stock market is plunging over a cliff. I,000 points down, which must have triggered a rebound. Now roller coastering back up. Now plunging again in just the time it has taken to type this paragraph. Sometimes reading my Facebook page feels the same way. A friend's three-year old dies. Another gets a stunning prognosis on lung function. I've spent hours this past week talking with women in the throes of such horrific trials that all we can do is grieve together and pray. Sometimes I get bogged down in chronic weariness over our political trench warfare or going…
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Philippians and the Big Story
For this post I’m delighted to have as my guest Dr. Lynn H. Cohick, author and Professor of New Testament at Wheaton College and Graduate School. I require Dr. Cohick’s terrific work, Women in the World of the Earliest Christians, for students in my Role of Women in Ministry class at DTS. Today Zondervan released her latest book, a work on Philippians in The Story of God Bible Commentary series. I'm enthusiastic about this new series because of its emphasis on narrative. Before we talk specifically about your writing on the book of Philippians, what can you tell us about this new The Story of God Bible Commentary? The commentary…
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Part XII The Lord of the Scroll – God has made everything fit beautifully in its appropriate time
The King of Kings – the Lord Jesus Christ – looked upon his bride (i.e., the church) with love, the same love that had compelled Him to die for her, as she came down the aisle of the Temple in Heaven for The Royal Wedding! (John 15:13. 2 Corinthians 5:14,15. Revelation 19:7). She was dressed in a beautiful, brilliant white flowing gown – both spotless and wrinkleless (Revelation 19:8). For this gown is woven of the good works (1) of the righteous saints, washed spotless in the Word of God, dried and purified by the fire of affliction and pressed wrinkle-free by the weight of hardship (Ephesians 5:25-33. Isaiah 48:10.…
