Author: ARCHIVE
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Responding to Misery pt 2
Psalm 6 In the midst of David’s many miseries, he prays. With physical, mental, and emotional miseries overwhelming his life, David prays specifically to the Lord for relief from his distress. We learn from David’s model of responding to misery that two things are required as we respond to our own heaven sent sorrows: understand them […]
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Responding to Misery pt 1
Psalm 6 The 16th century Protestant Reformation is widely, popularly, and even properly known for being a movement about systematic theology. However, to understand the Reformation as exclusively or even primarily about systematic theology would leave us with a very impoverished view of it since a parallel development alongside of the Reformation being a movement about […]
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Good Reasons for Christian Giving
2 Corinthians 8:7-15 After assessing the Corinthian failure to complete the Jerusalem offering project, Paul seems to have put his finger on a significant reason for the Corinthians incompletion: a change in understanding. It appears that somewhere along the line the Corinthians began to view their participation in this project as all wrong from the start; instead […]
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Grace Gives
2 Corinthians 8:1-6 In the most extended piece on Christian giving in the New Testament, Paul makes an appeal to the Corinthians to contribute to the so-called “Jerusalem offering.” At an earlier point, the Corinthians had given and desired to give to the relief offering, but circumstances have suppressed that earlier expression of generosity, and now Paul […]
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Genuine Repentance
2 Corinthians 7:8-16 In the previous verses (6-7), Paul explained that knowledge of Corinthian repentance was a means the Lord used to minister comfort to Paul while he was overwhelmed with distress. As Paul expounds on the nature of Corinthian repentance in verses 8-16, he focuses on the heart of true repentance, godly sorrow. Setting forth a […]