The Psalm now is this: as Christ suffered and then was exalted, so we are also in him.
No matter how stringent one's "regulations" — "Do not handle, Do not taste, Do not touch" (Col. 2:21) — the sinful nature that resides in everyone's heart is untamable by self-effort alone.
Kleinig continually directs the reader's attention to Christ and his gifts.

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Have you ever read the Old Testament book of Lamentations? It’s not one of those Bible books that tend to make it too often onto devotional lists, sermon schedules or motivational posters.
Pelagianism is the ancient heresy that says that if you work hard enough and will something strongly enough, you can prevent sin
The prophet Jonah longed for one thing: to see the Assyrian city of Nineveh utterly destroyed by the wrath of God. His wish eventually came true
What does it mean to be a child of God and to carry his image? This is a theological question, but it is a question necessary for our self-understanding
What postmoderns see in modernism is a misuse of power through the control of dominant narratives.
Can there be joy in obedience? That depends on if obedience if a free choice or the result of threats.
Only because He is an outsider can he afford the costly fee insiders could never afford no matter how hard they work.
Life is certainly unfair. But in Christ, at least in part, we rejoice at such a notion. Grace, that great descriptor of God’s devotion, is a word that only finds its purpose, only exists at all, because it exists as a response to guilt.
A few minutes from where I live there is a flat trail that leads for miles through a thick forest.
There are a few occasions in the Bible where the curtain lifts, and we get to peer into the inner workings of the Divine Court.
We all look forward to Lent’s conclusion and the celebration of Resurrection Sunday. This is the Sunday of victory and joy as the Church enters into the reality that Christ has defeated death and hell, declared victory over such enemies and set history on its final course of consummation.
In the world of martial arts, which I am the first to admit I am no expert in, there is a concept, particularly in Jujutsu and Judo, called seiryoku zen’yo or, “maximum efficiency, minimum effort.”