Loving God and Loving the brethren, which in turn would mean Obedience to God by aligning our wills with the Lord’s, and serving and taking care of our brothers and sisters in the Lord by humbling our own wills for the sake of others.
2 Peter 1, Born Bondman
Why do you think Jesus called Peter "Simon," sometimes? The answer might not be what you've always heard.
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Minor Prophets: Zechariah, Vision Four, PART 2
Satan twisted the truth to his own ends, and God rebuked him.
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1 John 2: Stop Pretending
Gnostics claimed there was no such thing as sin, therefore it was impossible to sin, for it did not exist. There was no point in seeking not to sin, because there was no such thing as “sin” or “sinning” in the first place. John strongly contested such thinking.
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1 John 1, To Acknowledge Sin is to Be Given Hope
We are far better off to just come clean with God (and ourselves, for that matter) and confess that we do have sin because . . . we really do.
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The Letters of John: Gnosticism
The seductive charm of this faulty thinking has wormed its way into Christianity at regular intervals, and today is no exception. That is why John’s letters are as relevant now, and vital to the life of faith, as they have ever, every been.
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The Letters of John
I approached my tiny Greek Bible, the fall semester of Advanced Greek, with the Greek text in one hand, Culy’s commentary in the other, and about a half dozen open screens and books on my desk and monitors. I could hear the music of the spheres as my brain traveled through time and space, to the sea-swept shores of Patmos, where John is said to have been exiled.
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The Apostle Peter’s Letters: An Introduction
His was a rich and fruitful life, filled with miracles, powerful teaching, robust theology, and ground-breaking work as an apostle.
