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Whoever corrects a scoffer gets himself abuse,                and he who reproves a wicked man incurs injury. Do not reprove a scoffer, or he will hate you;                reprove a wise man, and he will love you. | Proverbs 9:7–8 I ended my last blog post with a reference to ‘shaking the dust off of […]

How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching? And how are they to preach unless they are sent? As it is written, “How beautiful are the feet […]

The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge;                fools despise wisdom and instruction. | Proverbs 1:7 After church this Sunday, someone from the church came up to ask me about my claim that wisdom is absolute. What I said was: there is simply wisdom, truth is a solid thing. God is the […]

It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is no help at all. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life. But there are some of you who do not believe.” (For Jesus knew from the beginning who those were who did not believe, and who it was who would […]

            “I know that you can do all things,             and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted.             ‘Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge?’             Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand,             things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.             ‘Hear, and I will speak; […]

As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God’s varied grace: whoever speaks, as one who speaks oracles of God; whoever serves, as one who serves by the strength that God supplies—in order that in everything God may be glorified through Jesus Christ. To him belong glory […]